Jake Johnson’s burning desire to safely return to a movie set in the midst of a global pandemic inspired the actor to write his newest indie comedy, “Ride the Eagle”. “We were in the middle of the pandemic and it was long before the vaccines had come and Trent O’Donnell, who I did about 70 episodes of ‘New Girl’ with, and I just decided we wanted to make something.
We missed acting, we missed filmmaking, we missed storytelling, we missed it all, so we just committed to one another that we were going to make something and pay for it ourselves,” Johnson told ET Canada. “We put a shooting date on the schedule, we just made it up, and said no matter what, we are starting to film that day.