?'Will and Grace' and 'My Best Friend's Wedding' have softened us up with regards to the funny gay character. ?'Well, all right, he's gay, but they're so funny, those gays.' And I thought, that doesn't really cut it. We still haven't seen the heroic gay character that, when the chips are down, kicks down the door, shoots everybody and saves your butt. |
[Along with the Silver and Gibson connections is] Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ... Lethal Weapon. |
[Bang, Bang takes cheery aim at movie clichés while unraveling a murder mystery.] I stuffed in the kitchen sink because I was pent-up, ... That way if you don't like one joke, here's this one. |
Depending on how much you like these guys, you may want to take another trip with them. It's certainly fun to write about these characters. |
Don't worry. I saw 'Lord of the Rings'; I'm not gonna have the movie end 20 times. |
Having a character be gay in a movie just isn't shocking anymore, |
He's not Mel Gibson, he's not Val Kilmer, and he's certainly not Damon Wayans. He's actually the cool-headed one. |
I could direct it and steer it, but I just wanted to see what comes of that. |
I felt like we were taking a bit of a chance, ... Val has his own reputation, but as soon as we got going I was like, 'Why didn't anyone think of teaming these guys up together before?' |
It wasn't that the film's failure allowed people to snicker behind my back, because, yes, it had been a record script sale and became a record bomb, ... What bothered me the most was that nobody was referring in any way to the creative work I was trying to do. |
Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. |
Robert would come in and read just for the fun of it, and I'd be like, 'Hey, that's exactly what I had in mind,' |
There was a book shelf in our living room with books that were left on it by my dad who was a big tough guy fan. So you would find your Mickey Spillane there. So I'm literally a nine year old kid reading Mickey Spillane and my father is very upset because of the dirty parts you know. The naked parts. |
This |
With Val and Robert in the roles, the great thing was I didn't know what that was even going to look like, |