Jack Black On Sundance As “Indie Mecca”, The “Miracle” Of Getting Small Movies Made

We all know about Jack Black the actor, but he’s also wearing the producer hat at Sundance this year with The D Train, formerly called D-Train.

He stars in the film – which premiered Friday and sold to IFC today – as a guy organizing a high school reunion in hopes of shedding the loser tag from his teenage years.

Playing producer for the film brought a different set of challenges, Black said.

“As a producer,” he tells me, “when you’re doing an indie film, it’s all just about getting the film made because it’s a miracle if you can.”

We’ll have more DeadlineNow@Sundance2015 video interviews throughout the festival, so stay tuned.