Hollywood Handbook - BriTANicK, Our Two Movies Friends

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

Comedy duo BriTANicK (BRIAN MCELHANEY and NICK KOCHER) have two movies coming out, so the Boys welcome them back on the show to talk about the three movies that they having out. Check out Pizza Movie on Hulu now and Over Your Dead Body in theaters on April 24th!   Get a Hat Pack Hat here!   Check out Sean and Hayes’s bonus shows at Patreon.com/HollywoodHandbook   Listen on the iHeartRadio App!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the singer-songwriter behind the multi-platinum global hit stick season and one of the biggest voices in music today. Talking about the mental illness stuff, it used to be this thing that I was ashamed of. Getting to talk about this is not common for me. Right now I need it more than ever. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We like to know, before we get started, have you guys ever done a big money players show before?

This is your first time on the shingle? No, I don't think we have. I think we would know. Yeah, we haven't. Yeah, we haven't talked as much about the big money players. Obviously, we've moved to IHart, but more specifically, we are the big money players now. We are starting to ask just everyone who comes through. It's not just you guys.

You're not being unfairly treated or anything. If you could just list like your top, I guess, six or seven big money players shows, ones that you want to go on, ones that you've been on, ideally if you've been on sub before. Six big money players. And like what does big money players as a creative outlet mean to you? I think Nick, you were talking about this earlier today. Well, Las Culturistas is great. I don't think they'd have us on.

Maybe not. I don't know that we're a fit. You don't think we're a fit for that? Well, I mean, I guess we could hear your I don't think so, honey. It's the top of the show. It's usually not how we start, but like, let's hear some I don't think so, honies. Because as, like, being a part of this family, any of the formats from other shows, bring them into yours.

We can do them on ours. We can do just, I don't think so honeies. We've done that. You've done a whole episode. One whole episode was things. that people didn't think so, honey. Who was your guess for that? Making me go back.

Lewis Armstrong. So that's why he was doing the kind of trumpet town. Lewis Armstrong. Lewis. Yeah, that's right. Lewis. What did he not think so, honey, about? It was a lot of like very technical, like musical.

Trumpet-related. Did you guys understand or was it just like over your head? Just the passion that he spoke with. like the the language ended up being sort of universal um one of them i his i don't think so honey he did express just with the trumpet like he just played you know what he didn't think so and it's like i don't play i'm naturally musical i guess but i don't play an instrument but i'm sort of just naturally musical yeah um but i was able to kind of pick up what he was feeling and i and i didn't think so either honey but it's will you know this is will's shingle this is yes of course this is bill

Will Ferrell. Bill Farrell. Bill Farrell. The Hawk. Cooperation here. You call him Bill? Bill Farrell. Louis Lewis. The Hawk.

Yes. Will Bill. I don't know Lewis very well. I see. Bill, I know. Bill we work with. Is Bill a less? Is it more informal than Will?

Because Will feels pretty informal and casual. Is this your I don't think so, honey? I'm just trying to get a sense of when you're doing it. When you're doing it, I want to know. Yeah. I'm going to want to have the timer going. It's Brightanic. That's right.

It's Nick and Brian. Brian is here. It's Nick is here. They have. What are they doing? All the movies. This is so embarrassing. They're doing a dozen movies.

I was like, oh, it's Britanic. But, you know, like, we had these guys on before. Oh, we love these guys. We always have Brightanick on the show. Any time we'll have that. And if you said that last time was they show up. Yeah, it was almost a decade. Nine years ago.

Nine years ago. Any time we did get you guys in here. Was that your first episode or second episode? That was our first. The first time was nine. Yeah. And they say, these guys were coming in, they have two movies at once. Right now.

They've got two movies at sound by. They want to talk about their two movies at once. And I was like, oh my God, this is so embarrassing. I can't believe we're having these guys on right now when we have three movies at once. Yeah. You guys got three. That made me sick to my stomach to go. This is so embarrassing because it looks like this, like, it's directed at you or something.

We're having you guys in. We don't feel that. Just because we have one more movies at once in a year. We don't. It's not that. It's actually just embarrassing. It has absolutely nothing to do with that. Literally, we wouldn't have even thought of it.

It was that your publics begged us to have you on because you have these two movies at once. And we were like, even if optically it feels weird because we've got three movies at once, I was like, I want them cultivate the relationship with this publicist. And also like you guys are welcome here anytime. Could you remind us the names of all three of your films? Because I kind of forget. Project Hill Mary. Yeah, that's right.

Mary is probably the main one. Thank you. Thank you. Pasta movie. That's right. We share some DNA a little bit. That does step on our toes a little bit. Bluey.

You did the Blue movie. Well, it's yes and no. Oh. Okay. Explain the no. Bluey's in it. It's not a bluey movie. Oh, I see Bluey.

He's sort of making a cameo. It's a supporting character. But it's called Bluey. Yeah, it's called Bluey. Bluey's in it. It's not like the Bluey movie. Like, it doesn't take place in the Bluey verse. We went back forth of this.

I do not want to open this up again. I'm sorry. Because. It's been frustrating. We have a lot of follow-up questions about this. We barely got through this. I can imagine. That was a challenge.

We've worked together a long time. This is the closest. anything that could sever this relationship. And it turns out there isn't, but this is the closest right to the edge. The devil made this weapon to separate us and did not succeed, but it was really, really challenging. And so I think to dive back into,

we don't agree still on Louie's involvement in the film. And the film is finished and the film is wonderful. But we're still not totally aligned on whether Bluey in our movie is the Bluey from the show or... You guys don't know if the Bluey in the movie We don't agree. We don't agree.

And so then getting into it here is... This is a legal decision somewhat, right? It would have to be defined. Difficult times with this. You being amazed, fair use. You'd be so amazed. You know, as long as it is, as long as it is crucial to the plot, to the story.

storytelling, you actually can use any character or actor or anything from any movie and it's allowed. They stopped talking to both of us at some point in the production. So where it ended up in terms of like the legal aspects of it, like they completely cut off communication. Texts. Wow. And the movie's finished. The movie's wonderful. Bluey is in it.

Bluey is what my group chat looks like with them because it's all just my blue bubble. Oh, nice. Just like, blueie. Because they're not responding. Any updates on this? You know, just a lot of like checking in for updates. Circling back. Yeah.

So you're saying legally I could call a movie Mickey Mouse and then have Mickey Mouse as sort of a side character. If it was crucial to the story, I believe that fair use copyright laws indicate that, yes, you could technically do that. you might have to spell Mickey Mouse with a W instead of a U. And we of course change blue's color completely for this movie What you change it too? Fully regular dog yeah black dog yeah Yeah it's called blue every Yeah I don't think that's blue

So then that's a different blue I think it's a different blue eyes black yeah every single thing Yeah I think he's sort of like a black hole dark void kind of Yeah I don't I don't know who thought it was blue and who thought it wasn't but whoever thought it wasn't blue. A lot of the way takes place at night in the dark. It actually takes place. We shot the bulk of it in Kevin's house, which has no overhead lighting.

So could you see it? Yeah. So it was, I mean, and having this like, it is a black dog wearing a black sheet. Oh, he wears a sheet. Why? She. She. Oh, excuse me.

Where's a heat. And now, pasta movie. Tell me about this. No, that's your movie. That's your movie. You said it shares the same DNA. So you seem to want credit for it. No, I wouldn't say that.

But we've always found you guys to be sort of mentors to us. So we're not taking credit for what you do, but we do do a lot of similar things. It feels like we're the same age, though. Us talk about pasta movie. Why don't you let us talk about pasta movie briefly? Sure, you didn't just do one. Yeah, I mean, you talked about Louis. We could go back and forth.

You can do three, actually. At the same time. Okay, let's go through Pasta Movie. We do Project Hill Mary. Get that out of the way. Then we can go on to ours if you want. I don't think we need to do Project Hail Mary on this, you know. But we will.

Yeah, we will. So pasta movie, it's a romp. It's a romp. These two college hunks. Insane romp. Yes, these guys are studs. They got it coming and going. And it's obviously we don't show this in the movie explicitly, but they've got it going on downstairs as well.

Oh, yeah. And so they are having a party. We do show it in the movie. Oh, we do. Full frontal. That definitely is going to change the rating. Yeah, my God. Yeah.

But they are starving. You know? Yeah. And by the way, they've been having a little fun with certain chemicals. Okay. You know, because it's college. It's college. It's the weekend.

It's college. This was starting in a very... It was in a different place from our movie, and now it is starting to... It's a pretty similar. Gently encroach. Yours isn't a romp, is it? It's a bit of a romp, yeah.

The whole time or just like pretty much... For all 92 minutes, it's like romping its way through. A couple down beats here there. Well, that's fine. I mean, look, ours comes out on 420, which is going to be, like, actually kind of a cool... And everyone is packing heat as well? Yeah.

We don't have to go on. We didn't cover what, you know, what they've got going on downstairs. Let the audience decide. How many years again? Pizza movie. Okay. And ours is about two nerds, so that's different. Or kind of outcasts in the school.

And they've done drugs and they've ordered a pizza. It's coming to their college dorm and they've got to go down two flights of stairs to get this pizza. But because they're on a drug, a journey down two flights of stairs is a feature film. It was totally different from ours. Oh, that's good. I mean, this is so... Yeah, ours is pasta. Yeah, it's three flights of stairs.

Oh, they still have to go downstairs. One's sort of just a landing. Like, it's not really... We have a landing. It has like a couple steps on them. No, we got one of those in our movie. Okay. Yeah.

All right. Then we have some RAs who are like the antagonists. They're trying to stop them. You guys have anything like that? They do... Yes. They do have RAs. They have RAs.

They're not... neither of them I think are antagonists one's named anti-agatha and she's sort of like Aunt Agatha she's sort of a foil

okay yeah yeah she's you know trying to thwart them yeah and the other one is sorry what are you say what's the word you say antagonists well oil the names are pretty different

from what we did your RAs are not named Ant Agatha Mad Wanda vision? No, I'd say they're pretty far away from that. Okay. Then what are they? Yeah. They're Wonder Man and...

Wow. Really? Wonder Man and Andor. Andor Agatha. Andor Agatha. Andor Agatha. Andor Agatha. Wow.

Yeah. Okay. It's been very similar, but not the same thing. Okay. And when you guys start production... I just want to make sure that we weren't like through osmosis taking your idea because it does sound pretty similar. thought happens all the time.

When do we start production? Like 9.30 a.m. Just in a day. Okay, well, ours was, everybody sleep in. Okay, well, we do have the jump on you. And it's coming out this month? It's out. Okay.

How long was you shoot? It's coming out on 420 and it is out right now. Okay. I just want to walk through the timeline. It's going to keep coming out every day in between now and then. You're doing premieres every day. Did she just live stream your shoot? Is that what you did to get it out?

Like, how did you get it out so quickly is my, My main concern. No, to live stream, to have them actually live streaming because of the size of their hogs would be incredibly mean. I see it.

We had the fire department. They're trying to hire them. No, yeah. That stream is going to actually cause some huge issues with just the electrical equipment, the cameras, the sound. Did you... A nightmare for sound.

Yeah. Yeah. That would be the one thing I think you guys would do really well, you know, having a podcast. Oh, okay. I can think of 50, 100 things that we would do really well. Oh, God. I'm sorry. We're saying this is one. I didn't mean that is the one thing we would do really well. It's like, okay. I guess they did phrase that maybe a little aggressively. Yeah, I'm sorry. Take that back. A lot of things we would do really well. I'm not even saying we did, but you could. Yeah. I mean, so do you, so in our movie, it's a gate and moderato from

Stranger Things and Sean Gambroni from the Goldbergs. And then who are the nerds? Those are the nerds. Those are the main guys. Okay. Okay. Do you guys have big stars in yours? Well, Gaten plays one of the hunks in our. Yeah, and our, like, that's so crazy.

Gaten was here this morning. You got, you filmed Gaten's dick. This morning? I mean, this morning into part of the afternoon. It was early afternoon by the time we actually got. By the time the camera got down there. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a multi-hour panning down shot. Yeah, it's a oneer. It's a oner just from the face down to the day. Boston movies a oneer. How do that anti-agat-thut? How did they come in? After hour one, I imagine.

Well, there's a really sort of deep field of focus. It's actually really cool. We had like a fucking awesome DP. Who wasn't? Yeah. Hayes. So that's the second thing you do really well. It was Simon Goldbergs.

Oh, nice. Simon Goldberg's. What's the guy? Sean Cambrone. Sean Cambrone. No, yeah. This is Simon Goldberg. This was Simon Goldberg.

Oh, okay. Yeah. We don't know him. That's great. No, this is Simon Goldberg. So it's sort of a 19th. 17, but with a little less action, kind of, is all one take. These guys are 19 and 17 out of 10, respectfully.

Two hot guys. That's not their age. That's their hot breaking. That's their rating out of 10. Yeah, they are 19 and 17 out of 10. One of them is a little hotter than the other. The 19 is hot to the touch. They're playing with house money at that point.

At that point. Yeah, no, it's true. They're doing okay. Yes, and now they're in this huge movie, Pasta movie. So imagine what they're going to be taken down. And so Project Hail Mary is the Ryan Gosling. Project Halmerry is doing fine. Yeah.

It's been pretty great guys. Is out there and it's doing fine. Yeah. And it's the Ryan Gosling one, right? The Phil Lord and Chris Miller movie is your guys' movie. They have. have their fingerprints on it, like so much of the movie. They definitely helped.

They had a real influence on it. Yeah. They did. Yes. They were so instrumental in getting this thing going and in achieving. Literally could not have happened without those guys. Yeah. Yes.

I would say they deserve as much or more credit than at least one of us. And I would say also. that the movie in terms of achieving our vision people are enjoying it the version that they're liking it the version that they

originally sent in was a poop it was a big piece of poop oh wow it was stinky right yeah sure yeah the rough cut you're talking about

or just the script a pass or it was on a identifiable as a movie or show or like anything. It wasn't even clear if it was. You didn't know what type of art it was. Is this a movie or TV? Is this a movie or TV?

It could have been a TV that you were looking at. Or something else that we don't even have a name for. It was the seeds obviously were there for what we ended up. Well, we ended up with it. So theirs was about a guy who goes off to space on a project called Hail Mary. Yes. Yeah, okay. That was there.

Remained in tab. That was there. And he meets an alien who's crazy. Mm-hmm. Right. In a cute way, but a way that's sort of frustrating to him as well. I didn't think it was cute. Yeah.

But the intention was cute. In the actual, like, you know, pros stage description area. which were long, they would refer to the behavior as cute. So I know that's what they wanted to do. I also would say I didn't find it cute. But they thought it was cute. And that's before you made adjustments to it or? We fixed it.

Oh, what did you do? We fixed it. It's very cute in the movie currently. Yeah, it sounds like... The one that is actually out that we did does not have him in it. We put two in his dome. Wait. On day one.

Mm-hmm. Okay. He gets assassinated by Method Man. So is this playing... At the time, at the opening... I definitely saw an early cut of the film, then I think. Method Man shoots him. Okay.

I didn't see this version. Are there two movies out right now? Are there two different versions of this? There's always different cuts around because of all the different formats. So it's like... I believe if you see it in 4DX, they actually have a little puff of air hit you in the neck when Rocky's getting shot by Method band with a silencer. Dude, meth.

Man, it's great. And when in the movie that happens? When in the movie that happens? Okay. First frame. That happens in the movie. In the project I saw, in the cut I saw, he meets Rocky, you know, what I would like 25 minutes in or so. Or maybe even later.

The entire project Hail Mary is done by 25 minutes in in our version. He takes care of that with a quickness. Oh, okay. He's like a fucking badass. Like an artist. It's like the guy's like hot as hell. He's like got to go on. He's got dateside to go to and stuff.

Is he not going to be doing a space thing the whole movie? Is he packing down there? I'd like to know, man. Dude, this movie's for kids, almost exclusively for kids. I don't know. I just really wanted to know. Sorry about that guys.

Yeah, it's not whatever. Like pasta movie. Nasty. Yeah. Geez. Put it down. Anyway, no. No, he's not.

No. No, I mean, he's doing. He's doing. fine. It's not like, but it's not like remarkable. Is that satisfy you? No, he's not. No. No one would describe it that way. Yeah. Okay. But

he knows what to do with it. How did you do, how did you film Method Man shooting Rocky if this is for kids? So it's a little bit, that's actually a great question. That's an awesome question. It's a little bit in shadow. The camera is sort of like

the camera is sort of like, Close on Rocky. And then you see a silencer go up against, like, what we assume is his head. And then we kind of went into a wide so you can watch Method Man kind of blow his alien brains out. Now, have kids responded well to this? It feels like we don't know what's happening. They don't have an object permanent. They don't know.

They basically think that Rocky is dead. Would you pan away? Yeah. Right. They think every character is dying constantly. Yeah. Yeah. They don't care about any of it.

Yeah. And we try. I mean, we inserted some, we experimented with some scenes where we really explained like, that fucker's dead. Like,

you're never going to see him again. Like, you know. I would think it would be clear. But it didn't, yeah, it didn't really change their reaction enough to justify the extra runtime. Because it was long.

Oh. It was long, long, long. And only 25 minutes of it are Project Hail Mary. He goes back so he saves everyone. Yeah. And then he goes back to Earth and kills everyone for revengeance for going and making him do that. And how does Method Man? On his own terms.

How does Method Man? He shoots Rocky on the first. Yeah, we got that. Does he didn't disappear from the movie or does he? Is he with Ryan Gosling? You hear him sometimes. Oh, okay. Just off screen?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Maybe that's how you're getting the exposition out about how. how he killed Rocky. Yeah, he was on set and he would just be kind of talking, like sound was picking him up. That would have been good to have him while he was on set. We should have given him something else to say.

Yeah, that's right. So somebody else was doing that exposition when you had those scenes in. He managed to renegotiate his deal on the set after he, after everything was like fully shot. Yeah. And you hear a lot of that. And we were locked to that footage because there was really no other way for us to kill Rock. You hear him negotiating his three.

renegotiating. You can open it back up. You can open the terms and yeah. So sound on this movie really wasn't done well. No, I guess it was

the one thing. They are coming for your ass. Yeah. I'm so sorry. Casey's a film director. He's like, you know, he's got this great movie

about the devil. Yeah. It's the devil suck me off. I mean, I wish he wouldn't stop or tell me the name of the movie again. My Love for You is Deep, but the Devil loves me deeper. Yes.

Okay. Yes. You were close. Yeah. Yeah. So it's called My Lover Took Me Deep, but the devil took me deeper. Yeah. The Devil took me deeper.

Yeah. Yeah. And he directed the sound. He directed the sound as well as the, yeah. He didn't tell people quite on set. We're shooting. Stop talking. We were, we told him that what Method Man's phone conversation was the movie because we needed

to hear. what was going on. Well, it had a big impact, too, on the budget of what else we were going to be able to shoot. And also, you know, and we had told them it's very tight. So you directed your onset sound guy to actually point the mics at that because you wanted to. Well, yeah, because we're also watching the footage. I mean, he got the guy.

He loves movies to be like, that's an interesting movie over there. And you didn't cut on what you were filming, which I assume you didn't capture the sound of at all. Again, we had to do this entire thing from one, p.m. to 3.45 p.m. You shot this after. We don't have time to be like, oh, like, we're rolling sound here. I just don't understand. You said it's longer than Project Hail Mary.

Well, in order to get the runtime up, we had to shoot a lot of it in slow motion. I see. And is it out as well? So like when the, so for instance, just to name one scene, when Method Man is blowing the brains out of Rocky. Like, we do know this one. It's the opening shot. The entire brain falls up. We follow each piece of brain matter, like, slowly to its destination and just sticks to the wall or whatever. While you hear. On to a rat running by, and then we follow the rat.

The rat goes and steals a piece of pizza from the pizza movie. I'm messing around. Okay. But you guys have a movie. Is pizza rat in your movie? Pizza rats out there? You guys are so fucking stupid. I know.

You made pizza movie and you didn't have pizza rat. I just felt maybe the culture had moved on from pizza rat. I don't know if Gen Z's into things are right. You better hope so now. Yeah, I guess. Maybe we fucked up. Yeah, I don't. I mean, I guess there's probably still some cultural awareness.

No, I'm sure you didn't make any mistakes. I mean, we definitely made mistakes. What were they? Oh. I didn't have enough time to shoot. Didn't prep well enough. You know, you're always rushed and you're trying to, you have to compress shots sometimes. So we have before and during.

And after. And after was a mistake as well. Post-the-missed free. I think in terms of how post was organized, actually, yeah, there could have been some, you know, we could have been more streamlined process. Yeah. We were happy with how it turned out. Yeah, I mean, we cast it well, I think. That was great.

We got a great group. We did. Yeah. Okay. So that's what you're talking about. I can tell that's what you bet. When I heard that you were happy with the casting, I had a little bit of a feeling. Well, that wasn't what we did in 10.

I mean, we were mostly talking about the leads. Who else were you going to get? You know what I mean? Guys. Who else is two guys? Right. Yeah. Sure. I mean, it's just a little cameo. You know, it's not like we're really trying to. Are you guys, did you guys put yourself in Project Elmeri or Pasta movie or? We would take people out of it. It's just like breaks the world a little bit if you see us in the movie.

Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. There are a couple of other things that might break the world a little bit. You eat some of the brains? Yeah, we're just like, there's shots of us just like licking up. Yeah. Okay. Well, that feels like it's very noticeable. Lots of it, but it's not like, it's not totally clear that it's us. It's not really a commentary on like us as like public figures or like us as even filmmaker.

It really is just some B-roll that Casey was able to capture of us eating the brains off the floor. Okay. In high speed while we hear Method Man negotiate his deal. Yeah, that guy's tough, man. He's really got. But Macy has that much leverage. It just feels like a big boon for Method Man. All he knew, we were locked to that footage,

just in terms of the timeline we were on, where we were shooting between 1 and 345. Yeah, you really... Right, yeah. Well, yeah, that is... I mean, time is, I think, one of the bigger... It's hard. ...constraints when you're making a movie, you know.

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Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And you guys have another movie as well? Yeah, so the other movies... Yeah, we wrote a movie. We wrote a movie called Over Your Dead Body, and that's directed by Yorma Ticone from the Lonely Island. And it's, yeah. It's an adaptation.

It's an adaptation. Yeah. Sort of all. Okay. So someone did it already and you did it again? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I mean, we made our spin. Yeah, we sort of cover song kind of.

Yeah, right. Right. Played a little bit. Okay. That comes on theaters. And that's the theater is April 24th. Wide release. Yeah.

Are you in that one? You in this movie? We are. We are, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Who else is going to be, too, guys? You are also in your movie, so I don't know that you really have the moral heart part in your movie.

Well, no one else, you want us to make someone else lick the stuff off the floor? We try. You don't think we should have died at all? You think we wanted to do that? It's like, yeah. Yeah, just like, just to say it, like. It wasn't even food. It was clay.

Any other shots of us after that are not, it's not us. The brains obviously turn us into radioactive beasts who start rampaging across the city and then have to get Project Hail married by the other guy. Okay, so that's Project Hail Mary? You said he tells us Project Hail Marys. He goes back home and kills everyone. Well, you ever watch the NFL? Is there only one Hail Mary pass a season, or does it happen like, you know, every, whatever,

six or seven games or something? It's different thing, but you know what I mean? So it's like, oh, Project Hill Mary's, oh, there's only one of them in the entire movie. I don't think so. What about the radioactive beast that ate the brain? You don't play the radioactive beast. That's those are different actors that you go to or CGI. Or CGI.

something. When we're eating the brains, it's us. Yeah. It's right. It's incredible what you can do performance-wise to become radioactive beasts without the benefit of any CGI or makeup or costume change. Literally, pure performance.

It's performance and a little bit to give credit to Casey, who you've been dragging through the mud all day. He's going to sick the devil from his movie on you, although you might like it. It sounds like some of the stuff the devil was through. I don't know why we would like it. You're the ones who've filmed too. movies with raw dong in them devil throats me deep but my lover does it anyway the the friggin the friggin guy found this like sort of perspective where he's kind of shooting up at the beast from like right

underneath like yeah okay he's got like down yeah yeah yeah makes us look huge oh my god yeah yeah oh that's part of the movie yes yeah is you guys yeah dude I barely even recognize. It's me. I'm so huge. Is that me? I'm really, yes.

I'm like actually scared watching. Like, I'm going to step on me. I'm surprised you would have trouble remembering that, considering it only happened a couple hours ago. Yeah, but this was at a screening, like afterwards.

Yeah, the screened. Before we came in here at 4.30. It's happened. No, sorry, we're watching the screening. Yeah. No. Casey has it going on there. Yeah. We watched, we wrapped at 345, then we watched Dailies from 345 till about four.

And then, yeah, the movie looks like it's finished in there, and we are watching it. And so I'm calling, Casey, is that me? That beast? Yeah, no, that's fucking sad. Are you guys in pasta movie? We made the pasta. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. You see our hands. It was too nice. It was too delicious. And so it did not even make it onto the screen.

You do see our hands going like, sorry. Yeah. That feels like he's going to disappoint viewers. You really are. Wait, just your hands going, sorry, there's no pasta? Yeah. They go to. You have to cut to something.

So the characters are, if it's a big moment, they finally, that big moment, the whole movie's about them going to get this pasta. In our movie, it's all about them trying to get this pizza because they took the drug without food and the drugs more intense. That's similar, yeah. When you take it without food. And so then they go and they, you know, I don't want to spoil it. But like, yeah. And you show the pizza.

We show the big moment. Don't talk about it. That to me means as a viewer, that to me means it wasn't that delicioso because that means that nobody ate it before. So then I'm watching the movie. Nobody, it looks so delisioso. I can't buy into that. Yeah, yeah, because the crew should have eaten that if it was that good. Yeah.

Or actually, I mean, probably the chef or the chef. I mean, if it's right. So when you guys go to a restaurant, and the food shows up, you're like, oh, this is food must be not made. And the food is my table up. Yeah, why this get all the way to be? You know what I mean? I want to have to bust into the kitchen and kept the shed bread handed. Scoop it out of his mouth.

Yeah. No, but. But that's cool. What do you guys did? It sounds really good. Yeah, that could be good, too. We tried a couple takes where they acted like our hands were the pasta, just because we had the same thought of, like. Are people going to be disappointed if they don't ever see the characters, these hot hunks?

If they don't see them like, see the pasta and be excited about it. So it didn't, it just didn't work because our hands didn't really look like pasta, even with the sauce. Right. Were they like slurping your fingers? Well, we left the takes in. I mean, you can see. You left all the takes in. Even though it didn't work.

You didn't pick one take. A bunch of raw footage If you're actually Licking your fingers Let me get this straight at the end When the characters get to the pasta They see a series of shots That are just your hands

Sorry, I don't have it So okay one is Saucy hands I'm so sorry We don't have the pastas Heard off screen Amongst I know that's Project Hail Mary

You'd maybe hear method man So this I know who's in this movie Yeah okay He had come in a little bit early for his for his pHM scenes right so this was all today I forget yeah and that was part of what he got after forcibly reopening his deal we went back and shot sort of a tag at the end of pasta movie where it's like sort of like a post-credit sequence like they would have in some of the marvel films yeah yeah those are

great yeah and it kind of like launches like method man's pasta story for ideally for the sequels the whole pasta verse yeah what's what would that be It was shooting, just shooting aliens, like killing aliens, you know. Jason Seagull's in your movie? Yeah. He's in over your dead body, yeah. Great guy. You're not supposed to feed him fries.

What do you mean? What are you talking about? Don't feed him fries. Well, then they go crazy. They'll want more fries. They forget how to find their own food and then they're only coming for your fries. Him and his family. Yeah.

And then they start, oh, you're thinking of a different. Jason Seagull. And he'll pet kids. No. Yeah. You're thinking about Seagull that you maybe name Jason, I guess. This is an actor from How Much Mother, Shrinking. Yeah.

Make any sense? No, this one was also in those shows. Yeah. Yeah. As a series regular or just as a bird in the background. I didn't get into the details of his deal. I mean, you probably have to ask Method Man to find out, you know, the finer points of the contract. Sure.

As a shark. but yeah he was definitely in definitely in how I met your mother and definitely in shrinking okay what else did you say that's always said the Muppet movie okay

okay okay see I do think I can probably skip ahead and you're thinking of a different I really think it's a different sorry we're reacting to the movie oh how's it going to it seems like you're is it going okay

it's going okay that's why you're saying okay it's going okay this is a test screening yeah yeah yeah yeah in a movie is also out for us so we have to audibly give our rating yes as it's happening

you gotta kind of turn it out already like it's a test screening and it's out yeah yeah you guys comes out on 420 if I could give you a note I would say pick maybe one of the the three takes you used as your hands as the pasta in the end We learned that on our set.

It's a different movie. Oh. Yeah. Oh. What is it? What are you screening? This is Project Hail Mary. Oh, you're screening Project Harry.

Sorry. This is really how many food. Is there any food in Project Hail Mary? Well, that brain kind of becomes food for them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we eat the brains. Yeah.

We have to pretend like it's breakfast. Like, just to have a, like, a reason, you know? We have to, like, order the brain for breakfast. And be like, can we eat this off the floor? and then like pay for it which was incredibly expensive yeah that was a nightmare yeah they charged us so much it was clay right it was and it was clay it wasn't even food but we had to order it for breakfast and then we had to eat it and we had to pay for it in front of everybody and really why is that guys in front of everyone right well i mean it's we're telling a uh three-act

story you know i mean why why is that's like ask you know fucking Aristotle. Read poetics. Plot is character. Like, you know, it's just like not, right? You know, like, why is that? Like, well, I just meant, why is that embarrassing? Not.

Oh, it's just like, it was a lot of, a lot of money. Oh, yeah. Right. I had to call my dad at one point and ask if I could, like, borrow some money so that I could pay for the brains. It was so much money. It made a sick and then we had to eat. I'm sorry.

We were already feeling so sick. Yeah, it was good. but we had to eat so much because like doing your whole Rocky's brains are his entire body the entire interior of his body is filled with brains he's really smart like I don't know if you've seen the movie but I saw one of the movies I don't know what he's being a scientist and yeah that's right yeah yeah so he's got brains like in his fingers not too much of it

well not in yours at all no I and yours he's shot in frame one you get a little bit of that what do you mean If he's dead in frame one, how do you get a sense of it, you know? Well, we're talking about like, this must be this thing's brains. I guess the post credit scene for pasta movie sort of sets it up, maybe. It does, but unfortunately, people have to watch pasta movie after they already watched Pride Trial Mary movie. Which is kind of savvy.

I don't want to upset you by asking why is that. You guys have any questions about Bluey or like? I do have questions about Bluey. Let's go back to Blue. Sure. Sure. So, Bluey, if I recall correctly, is all black. It's a black dog wearing a black sheet in a black room.

And he's a side character in the movie, Bluey. And it's animated, but it's also filmed in Kevin's house. Why is she wearing a black sheet? What's up with that? I don't think we ever got the answer. Oh, that's for sound as well. Okay. Just to muffle some of the barks and some of the other noises.

You didn't want to do that in post. I guess you post was. I mean, you can just do it practically, you know. Who is currently happening? We have to be very efficient with our post. We're actually finishing up a test screening now. Yeah, we know. So in terms of like the sort of distribution of our resources and our time in post,

we felt like if there's anything we can do on set to muffle these barks, which were constant and actually became more frequent once the sheet was on, because I don't know if you ever put a black sheet over a dog. Never have, no. They don't love it. They don't love it. They don't love it. Yeah.

But it worked like for story reasons and just like working with animal performers on a right. Yeah, there's a butterfly. So it's a live action. Yeah. Yeah. It's rough. Yeah, it's live action.

It's not the, I really don't think it's the dog from. Yeah, it doesn't feel like it's a new character. Genetic similarity. We were sort of, so it said it was the dog from blueie. But the entire time I was kind of like, this is not the dog. What do you mean? It said. We said, stop.

And we were fighting so much about our own thing that like, I didn't even have time to ask anyone, is this really the dog for Bluey? Right, right. Yes. It's not. It showed up wearing the black sheet. Yeah. And said it was the dog from Bluey?

You could say it said. The dog said, yes. And then you just cast it as a supporting part. Did you change the, was the name Bluey before the dog show? The name of the movie? No. Yeah. I mean, we got Bluey in this movie now.

The movie's going to be called Blue. Do you think it wasn't, I mean, I don't know. I don't think it was a dog. No, not a dog, right? Someone showed up. You always had the sheet on. Did you ever see Bluey without that sheet? Well, I don't want to have the whole argument again because it was a dog, because the dog was barking.

It was barking kind of like a dog. Somebody get this sheet off of me. And then, of course, when I would go to take the sheet off, the dog would try to bite me. I mean, yeah, I mean, dogs famously don't talk. I mean, I don't know if you, you guys must have thought about that at some point. So what was the movie before you changed it to Bluey after this dog showed up? Um, I mean, it was a sex sexual thrill ride. Yeah.

This was like 7.15 a.m. So it's like kind of harder on. It was a while ago. Yeah. It was way before breakfast. We didn't know of having breakfast until we were shooting post. Project Hill Mary. Which was the clay.

Yeah. And that was at one. Right. So we hadn't had anything to eat yet. What about the pasta that you ate during the filming of pasta movie? Well, we didn't consider that breakfast. And we certainly had not eaten that at the time that we were filming blueie at like seven. 15. That was much later in the day. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, you guys are incredible that you can film three movies in a day. Like, it's really, I don't know any of the filmmakers that came. Thanks. Bye.

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