The GREEN LINE is a comedy. Actually, more of a black comedy.
It’s funny because Christian originally wrote the Green Line
as a straight drama, but after a couple of rewrites it became
evident that it had all the elements of comedy—the exaggerated
character types, the desperate hero, and all of it culminating in a
wild car chase. Finding the right tone for the characters, and the
story in general, and having to direct Christian, who played the
main character, made this one of the most challenging lines to
direct. Writers have a very personal relationship with the stories
they write—ideas are formed on how things should look, or how