On the lover boy character and there are tons of lover boy supporting heroes out there, but I made his Asian. You will never see that in this genre. It’s the small things and the touches of humor that are a reflection of myself that I put in the movie. A lot of people may not get them, but for me it is very satisfying to see these things.
MVWire: Was this the original script or did you make changes to it?
JK: The comedic parts weren’t in the original script, but I always saw it as an action comedy, not like Scooby Doo or a traditional comedy, it’s much more dry and sarcastic. The public will get the comedy even though it is not being marketed as one. In the opening of the movie I stake my comic book ground by saying the physics here are not going to be realistic. If people don’t realize that I am having fun with the genre at that point, I don’t think they are going to get the rest of the movie. Like when I out the Pepsi and Mountain Dew sign. |
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Pepsi did not pay me to do that, I was just saying, “Oh yeah! You think this is corporate sponsorship, well here is your corporate sponsorship.” My original joke was to get Coke up there with Pepsi, but Coke freaked out and said they couldn’t do that. It is a little bit abstract, but I definitely had fun with the conventional expectations of movies like this. People walk into a genre movie not expecting to think. It may have been a mistake to put subtle jokes in the movie. I’m afraid some people may still take that stuff as corporate sponsorship. People don’t know me as yet; I am the faceless director making a Fast and Furious rip off movie.
MVWire: What was the process of getting the script completed?
JK: That was the most difficult part of working within the studio process. I thought I could change the script. The studio had two writers on it, but we were butting heads because they wanted to make it a straightforward movie. |
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