You guys are here for Fright Fest at the 20th edition of the Glasgow
Film Festival. We'll get to that in a moment. When able to bring up that, you guys,
are now officially Lords. Whose idea was that and are you guys going to be changing
your passport, driver's license, IMDB? I think we should change everything,
right? So I told Dave I was like, You know,
we're going to Scotland the safest. I think we should go proper. I think we need time. So I went bottom and I got the deed
and I did the whole
thing and I framed my crest
and it comes the map of where it is. And so I told them, like,
Do we got to do this? We have to become lords. So now we are both of us
are officially Lord and we're Lord, Lord Chancellor Shackleford. So yeah, So. Hello. I am looking for my square
foot now for about two days. It. So you guys get the call from Spielberg
and Scorsese asking addresses. Lord before you shot on location since Susie is here and he goes, Hey Mike,
it's Steven the guys Lord, my kids. Steven, N
ice to meet you. Spielberg Mr. Spielberg,
I love the film, but by all rights, something less absurd
and this crazy shouldn't work. What was your initial reaction, David,
when when it got pitched to you? You know, it was it was crazy. I this was nuts. You know, I read the script and I was
I wasn't sure, you know, I just wasn't sure. You know, it took me a little bit,
but I thought about it. I read it a couple of times and I just thought just
it was so absurd I could not pass it up. I, I still hav
e to fight and feel like, master,
it doesn't do it half heartedly. It commits to the,
you know, the madness of the Lord that Kelsey you guys created. How did the idea come about? Was that something from a fever dream? Shockingly enough, dead sober
when it came out. But it was
it was one of those dream fever dreams. In a way. It's over one but clear and I had seen it. I the way my brain works is all just kind of all of a sudden
you start seeing the visuals. And I woke my girlfriend up at three in
the morning
and I said, Hey, wake up. I got something.
I got some. I see, I see something. I got to pitch this. So she listens to
I say, I want to make a creature feature with absolutely no creature. And I just watched it. And it's a raptor.
It's an invisible raptor. And and I said,
and she she goes, It's quiet, as quiet as he processes. And then she goes, and that's funny. That's funny. Goes back to sleep. And so then I woke up the next day
and Mike Hermosa and had just randomly called in and
I don't think anything's random, actually. He called me. He really wanted to
get together was during COVID. I remember I was also hearing
an invisible threat on the news in the US we had invisible threat. There's an invisible threat,
an invisible threat. I must have been playing in my head
over and over again. And so when I pitched it to Mike
and Johnny Wickham, who wrote it with me, I said, Guys, I want to make a creature feature with
that's a new creature, but I want to, you know,
I want to s
ay, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and I said, But I want to go big. So it's an invisible dinosaur. And those are very expensive to me. We've all seen Jurassic Park, so if we're
going to make an invisible creature, let's go to the top of the chain. You know, the food chain here
with Apex Predator. So we started with Raptor. I think eventually we can grow into some different dinosaurs
as we make some sequel. The thing is, we can have some invisible man, you know,
we got to go through. I was going t
o ask it
why around for naughty attacks or something, you know,
Is that your favorite dinosaur to answer? I really enjoy them. The Raptors sequence in Jurassic Park,
in the kitchen with the two kids. That's one of the first things
I kind of vision saw. Not that we did that in this movie,
but I just that was what I saw when we, you know, that shot behind his ankles
and the feet are coming through. I saw that
and I was like, gosh, you know what? I need something that's the perfect size
to deliver
the gags and get us actors to be able to pantomime. Because I saw a scary and I'm like, Well,
we got to carry something that's of a size we can carry, can carry. So of course we do research on
how much raptors weigh and there's a varying,
you know, if you're a Spielberg Raptors you're you could be £800
some are 4 to £800. If you were Raptor raptors
you could be £100 we picked because our science
all comes from Jurassic Park. We picked up somewhere in the middle
and obviously you guys reference J
urassic Park and you've got Sean Austin
who's got, I think Dennis's shot. Yes, but it's very similar. As close as we can get. Yeah. We're apprehensive about embracing and making those references. Didn't ever come across your mind
that you should dial it back or or go even more than we lean is real hard. We leave real hard feelings so hard
that when we were writing the script, we ended up making the fictional town
Spielberg County, but spelt like Pittsburgh. Spielberg.
Spielberg. Yeah. The news g
uys is Spielberg. BRG H. You've got to somehow
get this movie to Mr.. We got to get this to Mr. Spielberg. He's got to get a kick out of Yeah,
we leaned it, You know, it's funny, I also a buddy of mine, Derek Connelly,
wrote Jurassic World for Spielberg, and he gave notes on this script,
which is hysterical. Derek Connelly, the writer of Jurassic
World, gave me Raptor games. I sent him the script. He actually gave me a very good jokes. He gave me a couple of good jokes in there
to do, was a very
funny guy. So, yeah, we leaned hard on it. We wanted to. We love references. We love you know, I don't look at this
film as a parody, but in a sense, I think the closest comp I can think of
is Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. I love that they they
the characters know that the worlds exists within our own worlds,
but we can homage and reference all of the films we loved
and you know, we wanted to do. And not everything shown as it was
a big was a big thing for this. I don't know how you put this out
,
but one of my favorite Easter eggs in the whole film, if I can tell you, you know, you saw he was wearing
this the whole the whole when night. Yeah when Nice shirt. But here's a bigger one. When we had shown on set he was day
one production. Okay now we're all first timers so this was a big deal to have Sean on day
one and we're in this lab and in the set guys are doing their thing
and we know we have Sean now in the cast. So Johnny and I and my co-writer,
we come running up to Sean and his or
iginal character
name was Bernie. Okay,
because the Raptor Bernie's with Bernie. Yeah. And we go up to Sean and we go, Hey, Sean,
would you mind changing your character's name to Willie? And he he thinks about it. His character,
the Raptor, rips his eyeballs. Yeah. So he goes one eyed Willie. Yes. And I'm like,
So there we go. Now we got one eye. We got a goofy reference,
Goonies reference, which is the film that I told my mom at seven years old when I saw Goonies,
I saw on my birthday, May 19,
1985. I said, Mom,
I know what I want to do with my life. I want to make movies
come to our first film, we got Sean Astin, so it was pretty wild. And he did the inhaler bit from Goonies. my gosh. Yeah. Well, things are quite important
in that film is Yeah, Yeah. For the holidays. But in the comedy
it's got Lockhart as well. And I think that's what a lot of people gravitate to with that. So how was it to get that bounce and keep
that? Is that a central part of it? Great question. I'm going to tel
l you. I will tell you. Here's a funny thing. Casting between you and I was integral in so much importance
to get that hard. Okay? Because at the end of the day, we were
writing a funny it's a buddy comedy, okay? And we had cast
Dave three weeks before production. He came on and he came on
because a friend had thought of me from acting class,
you guys, to our friend Dante Basco, who played Rufio in Steven Spielberg's
Hook, who is also in our film. And a very quick hand. Yeah, quick cameo. You'll
catch
He's a blink and you'll miss it. He was day one, too. Yeah, that's right. So because of Dante Basco,
three weeks before production, because we just had to maneuver
some things, Dave came on. He kind of came out of retirement
in a small way, not a full retirement. But you were off the grid when we. When we called. Yeah, I was out fishing.
I was actually fly fishing. That's right. That's right. And for you, Dave, it's from a practical point of view,
you know, did you have a point of referen
ce
technical with these kind of films? You have like a tennis ball to find help with your imagination,
how to just work in this sport? man, it is. It is just, you know, it's like it's like,
you know, when you're a kid and you just it's just a complete imaginary,
you know, just a map. It's just that's it. You just let it go. I mean, there's nothing else
you can play at that moment where, you know, you get rejected and you're standing in your pants. man. Yeah. here's another improvs. Try it right
out the door. And that's for it. Right out the door. But,
you know, I was like. I was like. I felt like I was.
I was like a little puppy. It's like a puppy dog, you know, Just like
I wanted to please my my best pal, you know? And it's like a that's
how that's how I kind of thought it be. The character's like,
you know, a little dog. It kind of spins around at your feet.
Is supposed to make you happy. Yes. Like, I've got my best pal here, Mr. Case. It's like, Yeah, but and honestly, like a
and th
en a breakup. We our breakup is hard. my God. I cried. I cried doing that scene in. I'll tell you why. Because we actually I cried when we when
we knew we were going to work together, when we called to say, Hey,
I want you to be in this movie. It was a very emotional moment
for both of us, and I was very excited because he's such a loving guy
and you can feel it to a telephone call. And and then we get to work together. We did a lot of the 96 pages together,
and then we had this scene where I go
t to be mean. I got to be real.
I had to just break him down and when you're looking in Lord Shackle for his eyes
and saying really mean stuff to him, I cried. I literally it was funny.
Everybody kind of made fun of me. But I went off, I stormed off
camera and the mic is still on so you can hear me sobbing like a baby
because I had to be so mean to this guy. Epic scene. That was a tough scene to do,
but it was a tough day. I was. It gets Yeah. When you're on the receiving end, are you in the mom
ent as a character? It's a great question. You know, I think I really I'd like to say
that I'm just in the moment as a set character, you know,
to try to get some place in there. There are times where you
where you hit that you don't do that. I think that takes that regard
you and I both were in. We're in that in the kitchen
as as a characters and that's that's what you want. I mean for me as an actor, you want to be able to just lose yourself
in something like that. How absurd this crazy thing
was. But we still I think we
I think you made it really great. Gosh, no need to talk about Sandy Martin. yeah. She was phenomenal. How did she get involved in the project? How did you guys like working with
most accounts and clocking Nora Henrietta MacLeish Yeah, I'll say that. Mike Hermosa, our director, he was had worked with Sandy a previous project, and we had written it for her,
you know, and we told Mike, we're writing this character
for Sandy called Sandy. Sandy reads it. She goes, God, I
love this character. I fucking love this character. And she came out and just, you know, she to me, Henry
and McCluskey is our Beetlejuice to me. And it's funny
because kind of not planned when Beetlejuice comes on the screen
and Beetlejuice for the first time. He's in a TV commercial. Yeah, right. Sandy's in her second commercial and then just every time she's on screen
and we're told a little, by the way, when Michael Rose and shared a voicemail
that Sandy sent to him about wanting to do this
after she wrote the script and she says, Mike, I can't wait to play. She is your mom. And she did the best chicken clucking
I've ever heard. And that was all her and her commercial,
you know, do the spoken chicken squeezy chicken. You hear his first? Yeah. That almost made the ending. The little angel in it. She she she loved working with Mike
came on and just every time she's on screen,
she makes you cackle and laugh and just she was so she's for her character kind of plays on conspiracy theor
ies
and that sort of stuff. Is there any conspiracy theories
that you guys know is bonkers? But you can't help it being president? I got I got well,
I believe in the what's it called And then down to the butterfly effect. And the works is I'm pretty positive Sinbad was in a movie called a Casa Amor disease was a Shazam because it
yeah, I'm pretty positive I remember that. And then there's everybody says the Berenstain Bears
the way it's spelled, changed. Have you heard this theory? So the theory
is that there are there were in parallel universes
or universal this splinter off. And depending on what universe
we have splintered off into, some of us know
that Sinbad was in a movie called Have Some of US Know
a lot of the sad part in the movie where you get in Danny's truck,
you'll see the golf compartment. He's got all these Saturday mail. Do you guys have anything like that
in your car? Have you got any weird sweets
or things that that shouldn't be? Now this and now you know, I can answe
r one thing. So Johnny Wicker, my co-writer,
I was just driving his truck in Mammoth. I borrowed his jeep
and I had some friends in it. Now we came the way Johnny and I write
is all right kind of my guy, and he'll kind of write his. So Johnny's part Danny and and I'm Graham
we we kind of share and split as often
as we write the characters and somebody opens Johnny to him. I think it was Bobby Bobby Gilchrist who's
also an actor in the film, played Sikes. He opened the glove compartment
and Johnn
y has a cans of sardines, like a bunch of anchovies
and sardines in his glove compartment. Yeah, I just found this out. And we did the bit. We did a bit of like,
it's a lot of sardines. You never know who did it. Yeah. So, Johnny. Yeah, that's one thing
I personally, I don't know. I don't have anything. Right? Don't think.
I mean, yoga, Mike. But my wife just has, like,
literally a stack of coffee. Sweet here in it. Is it. Is it What is it? Is it just a little packet, A little pop
over here in l
ittle packets everywhere. That's just collecting them from Starbucks
coffee place, you know. Now, how about you? Do you have any. Yeah. Pens. Pens. And you just keep collecting them
and storing them. Yeah. And then I don't have any pens
and look where they are, because I think so every time you a pen on you right now
I've got five. Yeah. That's your pen man. Because I keep forgetting. And then they buy more
and then it's a vicious cycle, right. That's what they do. You lose stuff. You lose stuff
on. Yes. I lost I lost my, my airports and the house for two weeks. so using them to track your phone? Yeah. Yeah, I was convinced
it was on my neighbor's garden. I was then convinced that I was collectors
and make them. And then, like, a pigeon picked up and put in my neighbor's garden,
I was convinced that someone stole them,
and then they wouldn't talk him out. So any avail. And my dad still just sitting there. I was I was I was looking at my my ring
doorbell, looking at my hands if I get it
. When did I have my my efforts to find out timeline of events where you go
through the footage of the game. We need a true crime series
just based on him losing his stuff. I think he was driving my wife
even more than me. That just one fight of passion and are you guys ready to the dance? Fight fast.
Have you got the final set packed? You got the KB. Gosh, I wish, man that. I was so wearing the giant dinosaur. The dinosaur suit, You know, we could go
everywhere that thing ever again. Maybe. May
be we'll do it for privacy. yeah. We might have to bring that back. Yeah, but, gosh, you know, living in that day,
we had a guy in Mammoth dressed up as it was right out to Mammoth. you did? Yeah. Some guy dressed up actor in and do that. Poor Dave. He, he hated that suit so much
but I'll tell you why. Because those nights in the back of that
pickup truck, you had to wear that thing. And by the way, we were in this whole in this film
when we were filming L.A. Had its hottest day on record ever.
Yeah, granted, you luckily weren't in the suit that day
because that we had a stunt. Stunt dancer. Stunt stunt dancer. Now, that's right. Yeah. Now Dave can dance. By the way. This guy can dance and we had a whole
scene and I wish it made the movie I want. I always wanted to put it the end credits,
but we had too many written tags. Dave did a full M.C. Hammer dance. yeah. It was a flashback to win. Danny gets pants as a kid. Maybe they'll be in the lead. He's got to be. It's got to be three shot
jail flashback
number and. Yeah, Does he beat his hands? Grab your paisan. yeah. Yeah. And he has this whole terrifying moment. We shot all that, and this guy can dance. But we had to have a stunt girl
in the suit that day because there was a whole choreographed
dance that I had to learn with her. And then they brought her in. That was the hottest day
in on record in Los Angeles. The following same location
three days later, the biggest monsoon
we've ever had in Los Angeles. Get a full monsoon
at Dino
World that night. Yeah. And then we went to absolute,
really staggering, freezing cold weather in the back of that truck. And our whole picture sequence,
we spent five or six days says that only time
I was happy to have that suit. Yes, but he had to wear tighty whities underneath. And of course, then he asked
if they actually figure out if you get the ankles
from Mattel and Hasbro. Yes. Our deal was being made as we speak. Yeah. So it's crazy because, you know, we made
the film first, ma
de the action figure. Now Mattel is calling because Barbie was such a huge success that they want to turn
now our action figure into a movie. Margot, Robbie's
going to play the Invisible Raptor. And that was. Yeah, Yeah. Gosh, I wish. You know, I hope these things get out to people
because they're so fun, so good, you know? Yeah, people got to see it and we got to
sign and we got to sign these suckers. You know, that's really something. Somebody, one of the guys here,
if I first one of the guys,
the sun's already a fan of this,
and he asked me if you and I can sign one to give to his son.
So we're going to do that for a Roman numeral one. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah. Do call. Good. And then you'll know that
that's the original. Well, guys,
thank you so much for your time. You know, the families really enjoyed
great honor to be a part of this. Be honored to be here.
So honored and great. Ladies and gentlemen, you are watching. Hey, you guys. Yeah, you guys are you guys? I That's what
they all say. You guys. Hey, guys.
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