IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit
IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit
Chris O'Falt
'48HRS' Director Walter Hill
30 minutes Posted Oct 1, 2026 at 12:50 pm.
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In a live edition of Filmmaker Toolkit, writer-director Walter Hill joins IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill at the American Cinematheque for a post-screening discussion of his action-comedy classic “48HRS.” Hill discusses casting Eddie Murphy, designing one of the great long takes of the 1980s, and what he thinks his imitators got wrong in the buddy films that came later.
Read Walter Hill reflect on the making of another of his classics, "The Warriors" - https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/walter-hill-interview-warriors-1235142531/
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