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I iout Texas. rvfen Reitman is one of the men who has shaped the face
a conclusions from watcln [ op'modern comedy in filmmaking. The list of movies he
prc\ i> us tests, the .08lira Lhas directed or produced reads like a definitive list of
\ meric an Medical Ass. medy: Stripes, Ghostbusters, Twins, National Lampoon's
i m 1 .05. State levels lend ninuil House and Kindergarten Cop are just a few of the
i! scientific. You could:'-, lov es to Reitman’s credit.
1 05," Dennis said. Hcitman is the executive producer for Dreamworks Pic-
■s Roadtrip. a comedy about that most famed of college
adijtions. The Battalion interviewed Reitman at a screening
film.
• You have to be pleased with a lot of the re-
• sponse from the initial screenings of this film.
I love this film. We have all worked really hard on it.
e, it is kind of a throwback to some of the kind of
cademif noxies that I made when I was starting out myself.
Ivan Reitman
Q
Are you pleased with the way this movie turned
out? Does it play with the sort of intensity and
energy that you were looking for when you first
talked to Todd Phillips?
A: Definitely. I am very happy with it. It is playing at the lev
el of the funniest movies I have been involved with, and 1 have
been very fortunate to have been involved with some big ones.
Q
The special edition DVD version of Ghostbusters
was excellent. Are you looking to go back and do
any other special editions for others of your movies?
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!• Have you made a lot of changes with
• movie?
the
A: I would like to go back and do Stripes because there are
some great scenes that we left out. There was a sequence that we
could never make work called the South American sequence in
which Bill [ Murray] and Harold [Ramis] accidentally get pushed
out of an airplane witlr their parachutes, and they are stoned on
acid. My producing partner is trying to find the old film footage
so we can do a DVD release of that.
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oors open
Muster
l! That’s what makes making comedies really hard, you
lever really know if it works. You have all the same respon
sibilities that you have [when] making a dramatic film, but
you also have the pressure of making it funnier. You are con
stantly revising, starting with the script. The [writers] wrote
ineast 15 drafts of the script.
Q
Was it a w elcome break to take time off from di
recting to produce for a while?
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BRANDON HENDERSON In
How did you and Todd Phillips (writer and di
rector) come together on this project?
A: 1 enjoyed this one. [Phillips] was wonderful to work with.
He was very comfortable with my involvement in a situation in
which other directors might find me overbearing. He seemed to wel
come the collaboration, and he responded to it in a very positive
manner. Although, it did distract me from starting my own films.
w.. ■ | r. JA: Couple of years ago, my son had a short at Sundance,
1 1 1 / uwicja. asMWi. arK | ^ was \ noticed his film Frat [House] won the
: ^mce\ .said ihc ( Grand Prize, and I met him. He was a really nice guy. 1 told
im - ( cnter 'villi>eclosedf to i 00 k me up when he came to I lolly wood. I pitched to
aiII Kupui lor iIk euTi ^ R oac /( r ip j^gg | told him that I thought a whole
!. '' SuuluU (L ‘ n: movie could be told about that one idea. We started working
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Brent Blaha Band,GafflStj you always kind of go back and say, “too bad
\i' Band. Kuihk .wedid not do that scene.
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linment during the bate.
Q
What films?
A: I have two films, one of which I am going
to do by the end of the summer, [and] one called IVish, also
for Dreamworks.
Q
• What was your favorite scene of this movie?
Is there anything that you would have done dif-
ferently[with Roadtrip], if you could do it now?
A: 1 liked the sequence around the car jump a lot. It is a
scene that I pitched, and it met with a lot of resistance, and I
am glad that it worked out as well as it did.
[about] it. There is plenty of room for a comedy. It is a calcu
lated risk, but I believe in the film.
■ It is something that always happened. I do not think I have
made a movie yet that there is not some part I would not want
to do over again.
Q
This movie is lining up against Mission Impossible 2;
how do you think it will do at the box office?
Q
Do you think this film has the ability to do the
|same| business at the box office [as] American Pie ?
RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion
jamin had opened six months before, and we knew nothing
about it, but it had done really well. So it looked like it would
n’t get anywhere. But it opened okay, $6 million, which was
okay for back then. It just hung in. It ended up doing $90 mil
lion in 1981, which is like $250 million today.
A: I am hoping that we are the little engine that can. We
have no major stars and word is just now starting to get out on
A: I think it is funnier than American Pie, and I also think
it is more original, it is better made. The issue is whether its
will find it niche. I remember with Stripes, nobody had heard
anything. Bill [Murray] was on a downslope and Private Ben-
Q
How large was the budget for this film?
A: $15 million dollars. A rather modest budget.
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