The comedic actor decides to make his own action film in this new mockumentary, on VOD now

Dax Shepard wants to be an action star, whether Hollywood is ready or not. Brother’s Justice chronicles the comedic actor’s attempts to gain entry into this genre with surprising and hilarious results. Is it real? Is it fake? It’s hard to tell as Dax appears on one talk show after the next, flaunting his ideas, and picking up a few famous cameos along the way.

Co-starring Tom Arnold, and featuring such actors as Ashton Kutcher, David Koechner, Bradley Cooper, and Jon Favreau, Brother’s Justice is a rollicking run down the wrong side of the Hollywood food chain.

We recently caught up with Dax Shepard to chat with him about making his directorial debut with Brother’s Justice.

Quite a bit of this film is real, and you’re eliciting authentic emotions and responses from some of the people you are interacting with here, right?

Dax Shepard: Its very confusing, isn’t it? You get halfway through the movie and you say, “Wait a minute, he’s really on a talk show. They couldn’t have faked that. He’s really at the Teen Choice awards. They couldn’t have faked that.” There was a good deal of real life stuff in this. Even with some of the people we are pitching too, they didn’t realize I was making a real movie about trying to sell a movie. They never realized that I was intentionally selling a very bad idea.

Is it common when you go into meet with a producer or a financier to pitch a movie, that you are toting along a camera crew. Is that how its done nowadays?

Dax Shepard: No, not a all. But when you explain to them that you are trying to get into martial arts, and that it has never been done before, and that we thought it would be cool to document the whole process, it does seem feasible.

How good are you at the martial arts? Can you actually beat up Vince Vaughn, as you proclaim in the movie?

Dax Shepard: I don’t know a thing about karate. I have been in a ton of fistfights, though. So I do feel confident about beating someone in a fight. I would fight Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal, for sure. I am pretty confident that I could beat them. Vince Vaughn is a bad ass though. That would be a gnarly fight.

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