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THE WATCHMAKER
live this.That’s what makes Chuck brilliant.There are a lot of great writers, but Chuck will listen. He understood me, and he respected my opinion.”
Brian Banks is a film not only about wrongful imprison- ment but also the failures of the American justice system. It’s a theme Hodge will explore again in Clemency, a film due
to be released in December that’s based on the true story
of Anthony Woods, a man on death row who maintains his innocence while his prison warden (played by Alfre Wood- ard) struggles to come to terms with the morality of capital punishment.“I’ve been blessed to have opportunities that might start a little bit of a conversation,” Hodge says.
For his next film, however, he’ll have a bit more in common with the lead character (even though he’ll play
a supporting role in the movie). The Invisible Man tells the story of a mad inventor with an obsession for optics who develops a way to make himself invisible—a superpower from which he is ultimately unable to recover. Like the protagonist, Hodge clearly has a penchant for creation, but unlike H.G.Wells’s Dr. Griffin, this inventor is hell-bent on making himself anything but invisible.
“I honestly don’t care if I don’t sell
a watch. I just need to make it.”
Hodge’s own Gérald Genta Octo Bi-Retro in rose gold with black alligator strap.
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