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- Hi, it's Seth Rogen here. - And I'm Evan Goldberg.
This is your audio commentary for This Is the End.
This Is the End This Is the End
Here's the first tidbit. That was my voice.
That was Evan Goldberg's voice. Evan has the first line in the entire movie.
He says, "Hey, Seth Rogen, man." Do it, man. Do your line.
- Hey, Seth Rogen. - That's not how you do it.
But anyway, we feel like we should contextualize this a bit.
It's June 7th, 2013. The movie has not yet been released.
It comes out in a few days.
We don't know how it will do. So sometimes it's embarrassing,
'cause you talk about your movie like it's great,
and then it doesn't do that well.
So we're just gonna talk about it as though it's gonna be great,
and everyone's gonna love it, and it's gonna be spectacular.
- How's that, Evan? - I like it. I like this attitude.
I like that attitude as well.
So we'll refer to all of our choices as though they were good ones.
That's Jason Cox, who's our behind-the-scenes DVD guy.
Also just a guy who we knew who had a camera.
And this idea that a photographer starts filming me
was kind of a last-minute idea, actually.
- We just threw it in. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We were hesitant. We almost didn't do it.
We thought my saying, "Hey, Seth Rogen," would suffice.
- But it mightjust confuse, we realized. - Yeah.
I'm gonna ask, and I'm just gonna do it on the commentary.
Can you turn it down a little tiny bit in our ears?
- That's a commentary into the commentary. - Which is nice for our meta-movie.
You just saw behind the scenes of a commentary.
Sometimes, when recording a commentary, you hear the movie too loud in your ears
and you have to ask the engineer to turn it down a little bit.
That was commentary commentary.
Here's a comment on the movie.
During this scene, we did a half-hour long take.
This is actually the first day of filming.
We actually started filming the movie with the first scenes in the movie.
The first thing we filmed was me and Jay in the airport,
and this was the second thing we filmed.
We're in New Orleans. The whole thing is in New Orleans.
We had a fun time.
We don't honestly know what gluten is, as humans.
I actually don't know what gluten is.
We discussed this on NPR yesterday with a delightful woman named Terry,
and we realized we don't.
Jay Baruchel has a huge Montreal Canadiens hat
and was very excited that he had the opportunity to wear that hat.
And we did have to blur it out in advertisements,
but it was worth it for Jay.
Each bite is better than the previous bite.
- It is. - Gluten!
- Hey, this looks beautiful. - Yeah. Do you like it? I totally redid it.
- It's fucking awesome. -It's all new. Those are new.
- God damn, son! -It's pretty nice, huh?
So this is how the other half lives.
- Come on. - Amazing.
Air hockey tables.
This is a house we used.
This is kind of like a house I used to have. Some of these photos are photos I took.
I got an air hockey table from you, I think, as a gift when I first moved in.
- It was a hit for a while. -It was good, the air hockey table.
- These are actually Jay's favorite things. - These are.
This is not, like, something for the film.
- Jay drinks, what, 12 Cokes a day? - Fifteen thousand.
- And he has, like, 18 crowns. - Eats a lot of Starburst.
When we first filmed this scene,
the first few takes, the concept was that I actually didn't have any weed,
and I didn't have any candy and I hadn't even set up my video games,
because I wasn't prepared for Jay.
And then we thought that felt lame and we decided, in the moment,
to completely change the concept of the scene
and make it that I actually had prepared a lot of stuff.
So we had our props people, who were wonderful,
put together all the stuff you see on that table.
I remember spelling out "Jay" with those joints.
And we improvised this entire scene,
because we did not write it, 'cause we didn't think of it until we filmed it.
That's moviemaking.
Now, here's the first time you hear the Backstreet Boys.
And this was in the movie
before we ever composed of the heaven sequence at all.
It's true. We just wanted a song that was kind of nostalgic,
that you thought maybe they listened to when they were 18 years old.
- That they still love, 'cause it's rad. - And they still love it.
So it's the Backstreet Boys.
And then later on, when we started screening the movie,
we realized we needed a sequence in heaven, and everyone loved the Backstreet Boys,
so maybe we could get them.
Sinkhole in Guatemala. There is a lot of sinkholes in South America.
There's a lot of tornadoes in America.
There's geographical disasters, and people just have to accept that.
People just have to accept that in certain areas, you're prone to disasters.
We're not picking on Latin America. They got the sinkholes.
You got sinkholes in Latin America. Sinkhole de Mayo.
-...know anybody there? - You know James Franco.
James Franco doesn't even know my name.
Would you say this is accurate to Jay's attitude in general
if you were to invite him to a party somewhere?
- No, 'cause he wouldn't go. - Exactly.
This conversation is the same, but it would end with him not going.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's decades in the past.
Jay just doesn't go to parties, and everyone knows it.
He used to go to parties.
If you wanna come to his house and have a two-guy party...
Yeah, a two-dude hangout party, he'd be more than happy to do that.
When I hung outwith him in Montreal the other week,
we watched a show called Bait Car for four hours.
- That's a good show. - It was incredible.
Yeah, I've seen that show.
Now, those Hollywood Hills are added. That's a computer-generated effect.
The gun on the film The Last Starfighter.
Computer-generated effects date back to the '80s.
This area where Franco's house exists
is geographically not a real area of Los Angeles.
It's kind of in the Hills.
Anyone who's from LA knows all the geography is bullshit in the movie.
There's no place you can really see the hill like that
and also walk to Melrose, and where there's also streets like this.
- I mean, we wish, right? - But it didn't matter.
Now, this house is mostly computer-generated, actually.
The entire second story, the door is real, parts of the wall are real,
but no house looks like that.
We wanted it to be a ridiculous-looking house.
We wanted Frank Gehry to say that he would let us say he designed it,
but he said no.
I'm glad he did. It makes so much more sense that Franco did it.
It's true, it does make more sense.
Then we came up with the idea that Franco designed it himself instead of Frank Gehry.
But it would have been, I don't know...
It was a little disappointing when he said no.
Life's full of disappointments.
This is Franco's house, which is built in a warehouse
that was used to store coffee beans in New Orleans.
Yeah, there were so many movies filming that we could not even get a movie warehouse.
So, we got a coffee bean warehouse.
And it didn't smell like coffee beans, which I expected.
No, it really wasn't that bad.
But the air-conditioning was just a bunch of tubes
that they stabbed holes in with knives and then strung up from the ceiling.
Yeah, but it actually worked pretty good.
I think we got better air-conditioning because of it.
- Yeah. - Let's talk about the art.
This scene happened because Franco came to New Orleans
and he said he wanted to paint some paintings for the movie.
Those paintings, some of them...
There was the Freaks and Geeks ones you see,
and there's a Pineapple Express one, there's these weed leaves.
But he painted giant paintings of our names, of my name and his name.
And when I saw it, it was like how it is in the movie.
I was like, "Oh, my God, thank you."
He's like, "Is it weird?" I was like, "No, it's super complimentary and nice."
And then we pretty much put it in the movie exactly how it happened.
And how many paintings do you think he made? Like, 26?
He made a lot of paintings. He made an entire warehouse full of them...
He did one of you with a sword, fighting a dragon that I called keeps on.
That one was pretty dope.
This is Mindy Kaling, who is super-duper funny.
This is how I met her. I met her this day.
She was in 40 Year Old Virgin. That's how I first met her.
I was on her TV show, which was a lot of fun.
- She's a funny woman. - She's hilarious.
There's Rihanna and Jason Segel and Michael Cera.
We've told this story a lot, but she actually slapped the living shit out of him right there.
And the reason he's holding his ear like that is 'cause she really hurt his ear.
Yeah, she cupped it and fucked up his equilibrium,
and he was really messed up, and then we had to stop the scene.
But we had it at that point, so it's cool.
Jonah always had this idea for his character
that he would be like one of those guys that is super nice on the surface,
but you could make an argument,
was fucking with you and was maybe actually not that nice.
And for Jay, it always feels...
When you know that, you always feel like no one else gets it.
Like, "Can't you see this guy's a fucking idiot?"
And it worked so well 'cause you totally get why Jay hates him,
but you also get why people would like him 'cause it's funny and he seems nice.
-"Weed is tight" is one of my favorite jokes. -"Weed is tight," yeah.
Jonah says that's his favorite joke he ever told.
-"Weed is tight." - And he should be proud of it.
"Weed is tight." He made that up. That was funny.
I feel like this scene relays
the most dynamic between three characters as quick as possible...
Ever maybe in a movie. In the history of film.
Jonah and Jay and you are just getting it done.
Maybe the most ever in movies.
Citizen Kane takes forever.
- And just to get over one thing. -It's plotting.
That's my dog, Zelda. She actually does know how to bark.
That picture was taken in a bathtub. I tried to sneak her into the movie.
This joke, I don't know... It's funny in the movie.
- No, it works. It's a physical gag. -It works.
It's like clown humor. He's making a funny face.
And the audience does recognize Zelda when she comes back in the end,
and it gets a big laugh and a cheer, so it does work.
Ahjhai returns.
- Maybe the sequel is from her perspective. - That's a good idea.
This is where we're laying the pipe, where we're putting the emotional story.
"Laying the pipe," as they say. Is that the term?
- That's a term for fucking. - No, that is a sexual term.
That means fucking. Laying the pipe means fucking.
We're fucking our way to the plot.
We're fucking our way, we're fucking the plot in there.
We're laying the pipe.
This is another scene that we did not write at all and we'll get credit for
-unless you're listening to this. - Yeah.
This is a conversation me and Jason Segel have had, literally,
and I was Kevin Hart in this conversation.
And it's funny that he put it in the movie.
And him and Jason and Kevin have known each other for years.
Judd did a pilot with them in 2001.
They were forced to live together as roommates.
- In real life? - Yeah.
'Cause in the pilot, they live together, so Judd made them live together.
Which was actually genius if you think about it.
It is pretty genius.
Emma Watson.
We used to have Michael Cera come in this scene,
throw a cigarette at Jay and ask Emma Watson if he can live with her.
And then tell Craig that they were inevitably gonna fuck one day,
-and tonight's the night. - And then we cut that.
It was funny. It was just a little too much Michael Cera.
There's a lot of funny Michael Cera we didn't use in the end.
Yeah.
That's what he gets for acting so good, that we only pay attention to him
-when he's on the screen... -It just overshadows everything else.
This was Emma's first scene in the movie.
We completely rewrote it right before we shot it, which I think horrified her.
We did it with her, though.
I realized she's been in seven movies based on books,
so there's probably not a whole lot of rewriting in the moment.
-"What if Hermione didn't do that?" - Yeah.
There's an entire billion-dollar franchise based on the fact that she does.
The music playing in this scene is James Franco's band.
It is. Daddy, they were called, I believe. And this is his music.
Motown is their thing.
So this is maybe the most meta scene in the movie
'cause it's us discussing a sequel for a movie.
It's our actual idea for the sequel.
And you discuss how this movie ends with him.
It's true. I wonder how many people realize
as Franco is saying, "Danny kills me and I die for you, and Danny eats me."
I think very few people probably realize that's actually what happens in this movie.
I wonder if they piece it together.
- Maybe that's a second-viewing thing? - I think it is.
I think that's maybe a second-viewing joke, but we'll see.
This was just funny.
It's all the Superbad gentlemen together in maybe the weirdest way possible.
This was all improvised.
I think we just told Michael to blow the cocaine in Chris Mintz-Plasse's face.
Chris Mintz-Plasse is a delightful human. We should say that.
I just had to get off the phone with him to do this.
We actually did. He's in a band. What are they called? Should we plug them?
They're called the Young Rapscallions, I believe.
The Young Rapscallions.
Buy their albums and follow them for the rest of your life.
- Follow the Young Rapscallions on tour. - Send them money.
Now, Craig Robinson is known at parties
to get a keyboard and set it up and sing Take Yo Panties Off for people.
It is also done in his musical sets, but he has done this in my house...
- At parties. -...while Ken Jeong danced in a leotard.
Yeah. And so we asked him to do it in the movie
and wear a T-shirt that said "Take Yo Panties Off."
He also actually has that towel with him a lot 'cause he sweats like a motherfucker.
No, he genuinely showed up to work often
with that shirt, that necklace, those jeans, those shoes, and that towel,
and then got out of it and got into his wardrobe.
- Which was essentially the same thing. - Which was the exact same thing.
Michael's tugging on his Windbreaker there. That was his only note as an actor.
He did everything we asked him to with no question.
He just wanted that windbreaker on, which is his personal Windbreaker.
That shot of Segel trying to fit in always makes me laugh.
Remember, we tried to get a noise in there when Segel goes...
- But it was weird. - Yeah, it seemed weird.
In this scene, we always had Jay go, "California," like from Die Hard,
but that just didn't land for some reason.
Now, Rihanna's singing. That was nice that she sang,
'cause we were afraid to ask her to sing,
and so thank God Craig sang to her and she just sang back pretty much like that.
She probably thinks we deceived her as directors in some capacity.
That's what directors do, Evan.
- We let the actor... - Deceive themself.
I was afraid to request.
Michael Cera's butt in this scene is a computer-generated effect as well.
It's a computer booty.
We added a ridiculous tan line to it
and we made it a little bit more of a quote-unquote bubble butt
than I believe the real Michael Cera actually has.
- I think Michael's got a pretty bubbly butt. - We made it bubblier.
Bubbly, bubbly, bubbly, bubbly.
Now, this we pretty much built almost everything you see here.
That was a bunch of empty store fronts and we dressed it.
That was empty store fronts and we dressed it.
And then the stuff on the right here was empty.
- Some of that was empty store fronts. - But the entire convenience store...
Lots of these sidewalks, I think, and planters, we added...
That tree wasn't there.
The trees and the curbs and the parking meters, all these palm trees...
But the big thing is, when we turn around to the convenience store,
-that was just an empty parking lot. - Yeah, that was nothing.
All the billboards are computer-generated. This was all built.
This literally didn't exist, the convenience store,
and we completely built it because we were gonna destroy it.
Which leads us to a shout-out to Christopher Spellman.
Chris Spellman, our production designer.
That gentleman's name was Yohance. I'll never forget that
'cause I thought it was an interesting name.
Not as much of his acting got in as I would have liked, 'cause he did a good job.
In the movie, when we shot it, we had more of a bit
where we established certain people in the store as being good or bad.
Yohance is getting ice cream for his girlfriend and he just won't quit
'cause he loves her so damn much.
And there was a priest, and there was another bit.
And so there was a little more of like,
"This guy's good, that's why he's getting sucked up."
But then we realized we didn't need that for the time we had.
I can't remember the cashier's name. She was excellent.
She was very funny.
And this is something. When I get stoned, I do get cash-register-lady anxiety
and I think that needs to be addressed in some capacity.
...I want you to get to know these guys.
That's never gonna happen if you don't put in any...
Now, this part was fun to watch 'cause it's the first time we realized
we could scare the living shit out of people in a movie.
- Something we had never really done before. - Yeah, that worked.
It worked really well.
Now, all that stuff you're seeing in the background is all CG.
All those palm trees swaying around and dancing...
- The billboards are fake. - These flares are all fake.
If you watch a lot of these movies, the flares they do are fake.
- In Superman, in Star Trek... - Yeah, Star Trek, they're probably all fake.
They are all added in post-production. They're computer-generated.
Something that only a few people have noticed.
You'll see in the backboard, a billboard for Ninja Rapist.
Yeah... Background. That's behind Jay.
We like to come up with fake movie posters that we never show to anybody,
and that was one of them.
Yeah, we thought it was a funny fake movie that was coming to theaters next summer.
On the other billboard was one of our editors.
Assistant editor.
Yeah, when we were making Green Hornet, the production designer told us,
"if you're gonna build something, you should destroy it."
And that's what we did with a lot of the sets in the movie.
Pretty much everything we built, we ended up destroying.
Including this convenience store. Like that.
And that was actually our visual effects supervisor Paul
who got hit by that car, which was nice.
This whole shot is extended.
It just ends, but we make it look like it keeps going.
All the fires are added in post, the blocks in the background are added,
the entire street going up the block in front of us is added.
That literallyjust dropped off into nothing.
There's a lot of visual effects that were fun to do.
It was amazing to see how much you could fill out the shots.
The sky, we made that orange. That wasn't orange.
- All that stuff, the hill again. - The Hollywood sign.
The house is a visual effect.
When you said, "Dropped off into nothing," you meant the traffic sign just vanishes?
No, the whole street, it was just black.
There was no street lights, there was no even houses up that block.
It was just fields.
I thought you were referring to one of the mistakes we made.
These days were stressful when we had all the people there and the extras
and there was 20 famous people on set at the same time.
It was like throwing a party at James Franco's house.
A party where you don't get to drink
and we have to organize everything and keep cleaning.
- I drank the whole time. - You did not.
- I drank yo' dick, son. - You didn't.
This scene was... I remember thinking, "This better work.
"If it doesn't seem real,
"and Jay actually saw blue lights and is actually freaked out,
"and if this scene's ridiculous, the whole fucking movie ain't gonna work."
'Cause this is a scene where it gets weird, where it collides.
The supernatural world and the party world.
What I always think about with this scene is it seems like you're lying,
and then we just never get back into that and don't address it for the rest of the movie.
We had a version where I later admit that I did see the blue lights and I say that...
-it was just so long ago, no one gave a shit. - No one gave a fuck, which was interesting.
What I always think about, which is mundane,
is that Franco specifically wanted to hold a Fanta this whole time.
- He did want a Fanta. - Maybe he just loves Fanta.
Who doesn't?
An In-N-Out truck is something that they do at LA parties sometimes,
when a truck shows up and gives people delicious hamburgers.
It's something rich people do.
I've never seen it happen at a party. I've only had it on a movie set.
I've seen it happen at parties and it's awesome.
Now, the inside of Franco's house
and the outside of Franco's house were two different places.
And the backyard.
And the backyard was a different place, which was confusing.
That whole hill is computer-generated. We were literally looking at nothing.
Yeah, every fire, the blinking of the car lights, the cracked road.
But if you look, you can see a little Paul Rudd
running down the street in that shot.
Do you remember how we came up with that giant bottle?
I can't remember whose idea it was.
It might have been Shaffir's idea or someone like that?
Maybe Kyle or maybe Paul's idea.
But yeah, the idea came up that he had a giant, humorous bottle of champagne
that he was bringing to Franco's party.
This shot took a long time, that ground cracking.
Yeah.
Spent some time in a dark room on that one.
This whole pole, too, this took a while.
Segel gets sprayed in the face by blood,
which is one of my favorite parts of the whole movie.
Yeah, during the production of the film, we shot him in the face with a blood cannon.
We were so used to spraying blood on people and doing crazy shit,
we forgot to tell him what was happening.
- And we just shot him with blood. - And we had to apologize after.
He was like, "You could have given me a bit of a warning there, dudes."
We shot this whole thing with Michael actually on a giant crane that lifted him up.
- Yeah, he was 30 feet up. - He was in the sky.
It was pretty awesome.
That is a completely computer-generated little Michael Cera there,
which is hilarious to think of.
I remember...
Now, this was all complicated 'cause all this stuff on the front lawn is one place,
and then, right there, it goes to another place.
- That's us on a set. - And that's a different one.
We had two walls. A 16-foot and an 8-foot.
So, Jason just fell off the 8-foot, but Jay right here is falling into the 16-foot.
No, that's a stunt guy, though. That's not him.
I didn't wanna confuse people, Seth.
And that's Jonah running into a fake house.
That's all green screen.
That's not green screen, but that is green screen.
This is the actual front lawn. That was a fun shot.
Our effects guys, KNB, Howard and Greg, built this amazing fake head
that Paul just actually stepped on that popped like a fucking grape.
It was wonderful.
This shot took a long time to get right, and Martin getting hit with a...
Yeah, something about Martin's hair just made it so difficult.
And this was a disaster.
Franco was laughing at us from day one.
So we had that a sharp rock leverage cuts Aziz's arm off.
Literally as we were practicing it...
Franco was like, "That's not how an arm's cut off.
"I was in 127 Hours, I know how arms come off.
"It would be so much harder to cut an arm off than that."
And we were like, "Fuck you. It'll work." And then it didn't.
And then we had to add this wire popping up and snapping his arm off.
And Franco was laughing all the way to Francotown,
which he's mayor of.
This is our magic Krumholtz moment. David Krumholtz at his best.
We've been good friends a very long time.
We were in Freaks and Geeks together. He's in an episode.
So, I've known him since I was around 17 years old.
He was my first friend, him, Jay and Martin when I came to LA.
So I found it extra funny to put him, Jay and Martin in a hole and let them all die.
Some satisfaction there.
It was satisfactory.
It's just funny that Jay's probably closest with Dave out of everybody in the movie.
That's true, and he lets him die.
It was just a funny joke for us to do 'cause I feel like there are so many movies
where someone pulls someone out of a hole like that,
and it would be fucking impossible. You would drop them instantly.
I could pull Shug. I have a friend named Shug who weighs 100 pounds.
Yeah, she weighs 100 pounds. I can pull her up.
I could probably pull my wife up enough that she could climb up me,
but I couldn't pull a man up.
No, if you fell down a hole and we were in that situation, you're fucking dead.
Yeah, you're dead.
I'm dead. I couldn't pull my own body weight over that cliff.
Yeah, I couldn't do one chin-up. Are you fucking kidding me?
I couldn't do what Jay just did.
I can do two chin-ups, so I might be able to get out of that.
This is a purely computer-generated hole.
All the sidewalk... This shot took a while.
We kept saying, "More smoke! More smoke! Integrate the smoke! More smoke!"
And eventually, we ran out of money. So that's what we were left with.
We had two modes for the house 'cause we didn't shoot it all in order.
So, we had the broken house and the non-broken house,
and we could pull wall pieces off and put cracked wall pieces on.
That was a bit of a pain.
This scene we wanted to feel crazy and frantic.
Our visual idea for the whole movie was that you were in the house with the guys.
We didn't want a lot of shots that were too stylistically outside
what a person's regular perspective would be.
We wanted it to feel like you were just literally one of the guys in the house,
that you were stuck in the house with them.
So we tried to do a lot of over-the-shoulder shots.
We wanted to have a lot of the guys in a lot of the shots
just to make use of the fact that we had them all.
So, that was generally our thought process.
Or what little thought process we had about how the movie should look.
We watched Apocalypse Now a lot, too,
just as far as the golden-hot lighting that comes in.
That dude was not happy with us, I'll tell you that much.
That's all I was thinking of.
We wanted him to say that Barack Obama was dead, and Mitt Romney,
'cause we didn't know who was gonna win the election.
Yeah, we were shooting before the election, and he's become a real newscaster.
- And we were like, "Yeah..." -"Right now, you're an actor
"and we want you to say that Barack Obama is dead."
The TV said stay here. It said stay in your homes.
We had a hard time getting this titty-fuck joke out.
It was a zinger.
It was real humdinger!
They'll get Clooney, Sandra Bullock...
Jonah's character was largely his idea. That earring was a pretty wonderful choice.
That was his idea. It kept falling off.
We tried to convince him to actually pierce his ears.
And he had an ear piercing earlier in life.
Yeah, so, we were like, "Just do it, dude," and he almost did it.
And then, he made probably the wise decision
of not actually getting a giant diamond earring.
- I think it was irresponsible of him. - Yeah, maybe a little bit.
Maybe a little bit irresponsible of all of us.
This towel continuity got difficult at times.
Yeah, that was... I want to say it was a mistake. It wasn't.
It wasn't. It's awesome. The towel works. The towel stays.
I think we got to give a big shout-out to Jonathan Watson right now.
Our first AD. 'Cause this joke was his idea. Good call, Evan.
So we always had it that this helicopter crashed and the blade came through,
and in our version, we shot a bunch of different versions.
In one version, Craig was just standing there and the joke was he didn't even move.
One was he hopped back like in a cartoon.
Yeah, like in a cartoon. He made his body into a "C" shape.
And then, Watson, Jonathan Watson had the idea that this would happen.
Essentially, he described it exactly like this.
He acts like something terrible happened
and then he holds his finger up and you see there's just one tiny scratch.
And it's one of the biggest laughs in the entire movie.
And I'll tell you a weird little fact. That drop of blood took a lot of work.
- That was computer-generated. - And it was not easy to do.
Ozzy Osbourne gave us this song to use, which was awesome.
This scene was so-so, and we couldn't figure out how to fix it.
- And then our zeditor. - Our "zeditor"?
Zene, our editor, who I will forever call our "zeditor"
after making that mistake I just made,
he did this cool remix thing of War Pigs.
And Ozzy Osbourne himself came to watch the movie to clear its use
and Ozzy loved it and he let us use it.
Franco painted those paintings. We should mention some of the other artists.
Shepard Fairey gave us the right to use his art.
He did that Obey piece that gets the helicopter blade.
Of course, the guy who painted with Franco.
Josh Smith did the paintings with Franco, Terry Richardson, Ron English.
FAILE did those paintings with all the little squares.
Ron English did the titty pear painting.
To be fair, we and the production department created that penis.
Yeah, that was our thing.
...Sour Diesel, three and a half grams Grand Master Kush,
one ounce of 'shrooms, 15 pills of ecstasy,
a porno mag, a baseball bat,
and the video camera from the movie 27 Hours.
127 Hours.
And a functioning revolver from the movie Flyboys.
Old Faithful.
- Jesus. - Thing's real.
- No, I kept this from the movie. - Yeah.
- This is an actual revolver. - I see.
Franco, that's very uncomfortable. Could you put that down...
All the props that Franco has, like... That is actually the actual gun...
Yeah, that's literally the gun from Flyboys.
- That is the camera from 127 Hours. - That is actually the camera...
When Jay and Craig go next door, that's the backpack from 127 Hours.
- It's the actual Pineapple Express bag. - Yes, the bag from Pineapple.
And headband. We keep it real.
This whole gun thing literally just came from...
This was all improvised.
...us telling Franco to just throw the gun to Jonah.
And sometimes... We'd already shot this shot you see here
before Jonah started doing this.
And then, after he started doing it,
we had to go back and shoot it again, that wide shot,
because he hadn't done it yet and we needed to match.
It sounds interesting, but it's super uncool when it happens.
Exactly. And this shot here, we had to go back and do my coverage again.
It feels like a failure on your behalf,
but you have to do it because you gotta roll with those improv punches.
That's Seth and Evan's guide to filmmaking.
We keep saying this and I feel like when this comes out, it'll still be true.
The people at Milky Way haven't sent us anything.
Yeah, seriously, Milky Way, if you're listening to this,
this is literally five of the most famous comedians on Earth
talking about how delicious Milky Way is,
how good Milky Way is, how much they want Milky Way...
It could have been a Snickers. It could have been a goddamn Snickers.
It could been a Mars bar.
- We chose Milky Way out of fucking respect. - It could have been a Kit Kat.
But we chose Milky Way. And what have you chose to do? Nothing.
- Just send us a 6-pack of chocolate bars. - Send me one goddamn Milky Way.
- You can send us one to share. - Yeah, we'll share a fucking Milky Way.
Where's our Milky Way?
It can be a mini Halloween-sized one. Just something.
A fun-size Milky Way?
I wrote the people at Naked Juice a letter,
and they sent me back a free bottle of Naked Juice.
Literally, this is the most Milky Way aggrandizing movie in the history of film.
We're going to do to Milky Way what E.T. did to Reese's Pieces.
Actually, now I'm feeling, "Where's our Nutella?"
Where's our fucking Nutella?
Where's our taco shells, where's our skim milk?
Arrowhead hasn't contributed anything to us.
Yeah, we serve Arrowhead on our movie sets.
More than anything, it's amazing that those products let us use them.
Yeah, they'll regret it in a few days when the movie comes out.
Franco sleeping with the noise-canceling headphones and the eye mask
-always seemed to get a good giggle. - People always seem to enjoy that.
I don't know if Franco actually does that.
I picture him having eye masks and headphones...
I picture him sleeping in gravity boots.
He hangs upside down, I believe.
I picture him having one of those big, silver Fortress-of-Solitude-type beds
from the original Superman movie.
That always looked like a comfortable bed to me.
Hey-
A lot of good improv in this scene that didn't get used.
Yeah, this scene, we just thought would be best short.
This is emotional pipe we're laying. We're laying more pipe here.
Emotional pipe?
We used to all take naps there whenever we could.
Mostly Franco and Craig and Jonah and the other actors.
It's true. Because we were all on set so much together in this house...
And because if you go outside, since it's July in New Orleans,
you become disgustingly drenched in sweat within 10 seconds.
Yeah, people would hang out in Franco's house a lot.
And we would hang out in the same area as where we shot the movie.
Which I guess means we succeeded at what we wanted,
which is to make a house that's a douche-y house,
-that you kind of want to hang in. - But also a house you want to hang out in.
Yeah, that's how Franco does it.
Every time they stop rolling,
he sits down and he just conserves his energy.
You got to conserve energy. That's what I'm doing right now.
DMX tweeted...
If you're listening to this in the future,
Twitter is a technology that was popular in 2013
where people could type 140-character messages and put them out.
DMX, the rap artist,
tweeted out our movie trailer because we reference him here.
Which was exciting.
It makes me think, "Maybe DMX knows who I am."
And that notion is exciting to me.
Maybe he knows who I am and doesn't know who you are.
You could be right.
The audience gets a little scared here which is also nice.
Craig is digitally blacked out in that scene,
'cause, lighting-wise, you can't really achieve what we did there.
- Maybe you can and we're just not good. - Maybe we just didn't...
But we digitally darkened him out for the reveal.
This joke was always funny and I'm always glad this worked,
where we have Jonah appear out of nowhere and scare people.
Yeah. It was one of those things that it worked,
-but when we added the noise... -it really worked much better.
Henry Jackman...
It's now when we say thank you to Henry Jackman, our composer.
He's a wonderful man. British man.
We have a Commonwealth connection...
- We had a Commonwealth connection. -...that was undeniable.
We would bring it up all the time.
We'd sing God Save The Queen.
He's the composer who seems to laugh the most while working.
He does! And he totally...
We told him there could be no rhyme or reason to the music.
Sometimes it would have to be big and orchestral.
Sometimes it would have to be hip hop-y and horror music-y.
And sometimes it would have to be... It had to be all sorts of stuff.
And he was like, "Okay, great. Sounds cool. No rules. I like that."
This whole thing was improvised. The entire...
The scene ended in the script when Jonah sat down, but then we improvised.
- I'm glad docking made it into this movie. - Yeah. It had to get into something.
This might be the first movie with a docking joke.
Docking, for those of you who don't know,
is a sexual term wherein
an uncircumcised man
rolls his foreskin over the tip of another man's penis.
Docking, ladies and gentlemen.
I just don't buy that that would be pleasurable.
It's more of a "say you did it" kind of a thing.
- We can try it right here in the studio. - No.
We don't have the foreskin for it and you know it.
It's true. We don't. I have a pretty loose foreskin.
We need Kyle.
We need our one non-circumcised friend.
It's true. Jonah says, "Are you going to dock into me?"
Jay's half Jewish, half Christian. Who knows if he can dock?
He can dock himself. That's what that means.
Speaking of docking, here's Danny McBride.
Danny McBride's docking into this movie right here.
This scene was a motherfucker.
Not to film. Not to edit. But to get the right song for.
Yeah. We went through a lot. And I'm very pleased we wound up with this.
It's fun. It's hilarious.
I just love Cypress Hill. Who doesn't?
I feel like it's also time to mention our big musical faux pas.
We thought it would be cool if this music had all gospel music.
If the movie had all gospel music.
- And we tried it. It didn't work. - You fucking idiot.
Yeah, it didn't work at all.
And so we replaced it with all sorts of different kinds of music.
Lots of music from the late '90s, early 2000s,
as you watch it, right?
We also filmed a gospel choir singing. Videotaped it all.
Maybe you should put them on the DVD.
Why wouldn't...
Yeah. Why wouldn't we?
Well, we'll see how that resolves itself when you've purchased this DVD.
If you're listening to this, you have the DVD.
This was Danny's first scene he shot,
which was funny because he had a lot of zingers prepared, I would say.
And we were all a little nervous
'cause to us, Danny is the funniest dude ever.
And he made up all this shit.
Including the "James Franco didn't suck any dick" line,
which, when he said, was one of the funniest things I heard.
Do you know if he came with that one on the day, or if he...
No, he just made it up.
'Cause it started with, "James Franco didn't suck any dick? That's a first."
Even Jonah's like "You didn't suck any dick? That's a first."
And then it evolved. Then he got it to,
"James Franco didn't suck any dick last night?
"Now I know y'all are tripping."
Which is a very well-formed joke on Danny McBride's part.
This joke was always funny. "The fatalities."
Dannyjust kills it in this scene.
This scene was very... This was the first scene we released.
It got whatever... We don't know how the movie's going to do yet.
But let's pretend it does great.
So this is what led us on the road to our massive early buzz
that led us to be the box office giant that we ultimately became.
Thank God.
Jonah, of course, is an Academy Award-nominated person.
James Franco, also an Academy Award-nominated person.
Two out of the six main actors in this movie are Academy Award-nominated people.
And you won a Stony. And Franco won two Stonys.
I won a Stony Award.
I was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in 2004.
I did not win.
Shit.
The guy who's about to pop his head through this door is named Brian Huskey.
If you need someone to make something funny that you didn't write,
-call Brian Huskey! - Hire Brian Huskey!
'Cause he improvises very well.
Now, Brian Huskey is somewhat recognizable.
He's in some commercials and he's on Veep sometimes.
And we actually had him film a take or two where he's like,
"I'm Brian Huskey. I'm on Veep. I'm in some commercials,"
just in case he became recognizable in the time we made the movie,
or when we screened the movie.
People are like, "I know that guy. It's the guy in those commercials."
We didn't want to ignore the reality of the movie
which is that everyone is themselves.
The truth is we, at first, didn't want to hire him
because we thought he was too recognizable.
But there was nobody who did it even close to as good as him.
Yeah, he was very funny.
My ass hurts. But I'm going to slug through it.
Our casting director, Francine Maisler,
made actors punch their head through a piece of paper,
so we only ever saw their auditions head-only.
Yeah. We were in New Orleans, so they had to send their auditions on tape
and we just saw their heads.
And Brian was heads above the rest.
- Heads and tails above the rest? - No.
- Tails wouldn't make sense. - Just heads above the...
- I get what you did then. - Yes.
Now, this head...
I almost just threw up.
- This head was a head that KNB built. - Oh, God!
It was empty. It had a reservoir inside of it
that you could literally fill with a gallon of blood.
Yeah, we would be like, "Reload!"
And so we just filled the head with blood and kicked it around.
That shot was achieved by putting one of our cameras inside a giant sphere
that was roughly the size of a large beach ball.
And the actors, we would just roll it to each other
as we screamed like fucking idiots.
And at video village, which is where you watch the playback,
as the director and the director of photography,
we couldn't see it.
- So we just stood there and heard... - Yeah.
We would have to come in and see how they did.
- They did good. - Yeah, we did very well.
More of those shots made it in than anyone thought.
Did you see on the DVD stuff Brandon saying that
-when we told him... - That he thought it was a stupid idea!
- Fuck you, Brandon! - A stupid idea!
We regret hiring you!
- Look what you say. - We don't regret it.
You bite the teat that milks you.
You're bungling your sayings.
I'm not, Evan. This is all the accurate sayings.
- This used to be a... - Now, this was a giant...
This scene was one of the biggest scenes that we cut down.
- It's on the DVD. You can see it. - You can go see it.
Unless we cut it tomorrow,
-but I don't think we will. - From the DVD.
Time will tell.
That is all CG. Everything out the window is CG.
We're literally looking at nothing.
All that stuff is fake. That's all fake.
- Fake flare. - All fake.
It's all lies, people!
This was a big win for us. This idea.
This really helped us in telling our tale.
Yeah, we set up this confessional room
where we can record confessionals easily with this little camera.
And this straight up... We just discussed The Real World and said,
"We should just do it like The Real World. They're stuck in a house."
it was also based on Paranormal Activity and 127 Hours, a little bit, also.
And my personal confessional collection.
Yes, and me and Evan keep personal diaries of our own lives.
And so we had each actor record tons and tons of stuff
in these little confessionals.
There's at least an hour of each guy on these.
And we use it throughout the movie really well.
Os Gemeos are artists whose work is featured behind Franco
by the hookah.
They're from Brazil. They're wonderful.
I appreciate them giving us permission to use their work in the movie.
We used to have a lot more footage
where he masturbated on some of James' books.
Yeah. We had a lot more Danny doing gross shit in these confessionals,
but we cut it.
There's one where he was like, "Look at this.
"There's a place in Vietnam called Phuoc Binh."
- Which is true. - Which is true.
This scene was largely improvised.
We just talked about what our different theories should be.
Jonah made up this Sinkhole de Mayo thing.
The picture at the back of the room of a telephone wire,
that's Seth's photo.
I took that wonderful photo of telephone wires.
It looks like a cross. That's why we put it back there.
You should try to sell it now through this format.
- How much? How much? - How much?
How much would you sell that for? All of it.
Four million dollars.
- That's on sale for $4 million. - Wait, no, no, no.
Four million euros.
- Four million euros? - Yes.
- Exclusively. -It could be yours.
Just send your money to Sony Pictures Studios.
It's on Washington near Madison and Overland.
That's the Rapture, those are the gigantic beams of blue light.
"And there will be a great mountain burning in fire."
I mean, the Hollywood Hills are literally engulfed in flames
as we sit here right now.
The Hollywood Hills ain't no mountain. It's a hill.
Takes about 10 minutes to get across that motherfucker with no traffic.
- Coldwater. - I take Laurel Canyon.
- What's great about our composer is... - He's an ace of all trades.
He's comfortable with everything, which was very nice.
"...having seven heads,
"that old serpent called the devil and Satan,
"which deceiveth the whole world, was released onto the earth."
That's a computer-generated image.
Yeah, we had a sillier image. We had a lot of trouble.
I personally drew it, I think, the last one.
No, Jen drew the last one.
It just was too cartoony.
No disrespect to Jen.
People really listen to these and get insulted if you say bad things.
Is that true?
Have you ever listened to one of our audio commentaries?
- No. - I haven't either.
I've listened to Starship Troopers and The Shining,
and those are the only ones I've ever listened to in my life.
We should make this...
And the making of the highway fight in Matrix 2.
- Yeah, I watched that. That was great. - That was fucking cool.
That's a great behind-the-scenes feature. Are you kidding me?
This is an homage to... What am I thinking of?
- Don't say it. They'll sue us. Don't say it! - Don't say it?
We tried to clear it.
- Tried to clear what? - Exactly.
This scene is about something else. Let's talk about it.
This is us being bored in the house.
That's real cheese bought at a real grocery store.
Come on, Danny!
- You licked your finger. - Come on, man.
We always had the idea that Franco...
I mean, Franco actually came up with the idea
that he's obsessed with me and in love with me.
And then we started looking for ways that that could play in.
And the idea that he starts sneaking me food was entertaining to us.
This is one of my... I threw the line out, "What's cheese without a few crackers?"
That's one of my proudest in my life.
And I believe it was my idea to shove the crackers...
- That's fucking teamwork. - That's teamwork, man!
That's how our partnership works, people.
That, of course, is a lot of drugs.
And I don't recommend any kid do all those drugs.
Jay kills me here that he goes back to the stupid look on your face.
We overdid this at first.
Let's talk about Gangnam Style.
Now, am I proud that Gangnam Style is in this movie?
I don't know.
But here's what I do know.
We tried Gangnam Style.
We started to not like Gangnam Style.
We tried a million other songs to replace Gangnam Style.
In theater, we tried it in theater.
- We showed it to audiences. - And what did we learn?
People fucking love Gangnam Style.
There's a reason it's one of the biggest songs ever.
One billion people can't be wrong.
One billion?
- Ten billion? - At least 15 billion people.
By the time you're listening to this in the future,
Gangnam Style could be the fucking national anthem for all we know.
This was the most fun we've ever had doing anything.
- This Pineapple Express 2. - Yeah, this was fun.
We had written this into the script and then we cut it out
'cause we thought it was maybe too...
Rubbing our own rhubarb just a little too much.
We were trying to ride the line between self-referential and self-indulgent.
And we felt we were afraid maybe this was falling into the self-indulgent land.
Only you know, person watching.
Only you're the judge, guy listening to this. Or girl.
- But then Franco... - Woody Harrelson saw the movie yesterday.
He was not offended, I hear.
- No. -It's good to know.
But then we told Franco,
"We have this stupid idea where we make Pineapple Express 2. "
And his eyes lit up like a child on Christmas.
And he's like, "We have to film that!"
We're like, "No, I don't think we have time." He's like, "No, we have to. We have to."
- And he just... -He willed it into being.
You can't say no to James Franco. I fucking double dare you.
When he starts smiling, it's over.
Once he flashes those pearly whites and those steely blues, or browns...
Those pooey browns.
- Those pearly whites and those... - This shot made me laugh.
- The slow motion of us coming together. - You slowed yourself down.
This shit's the dumbest stuff we've ever done. Right here. Right now.
I feel like if I was to redo this,
I would have had more references to what ultimately happened at the end of our movie.
No! More references... No.
- No. - No?
- That's pushing it. - You think?
- People might have caught on. - Maybe.
Nick's here and he's got a ton of food.
- What does he have? - I don't know.
- What is this? -It looks incredible.
Is it a big tray of stuff? Is that Baja Fresh or something?
Nick's responsible for a lot of this DVD.
But he's also very selfish and only gets food for himself
whenever he has the opportunity.
A giant tray of food, nonetheless.
Here comes Emma.
We wanted to put the Harry Potter twinkle in there.
But we didn't even try. We knew that wasn't going to happen.
We wouldn't have been able to afford it.
Do you remember how it goes? We can't even jingle it.
We can'tjingle it. We can'tjingle thatjingle!
You people play it in your head. You know how it goes.
Picture in your head that Harry Potter song.
I am Harry Potter
That's how we'll supplement it.
Harry Potter music, yeah!
That could be the cheapest way ever to put music in a movie, is to just...
People know the songs.
We don't have to say...
I'm a killer queen Dynamite laser-beam
- You can't even do that. Just be like... - Can't do that?
- No, you got to be like, "Killer queen!" -'Cause I said the words?
No, just like, "And now, Killer Queen plays."
- In your head. - And then you just go...
And then, yeah, just like...
Just maybe the words on the bottom of the screen flash.
Now Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin is playing in your head. Picture it.
And you just hear the ticker.
That could work. Maybe we've uncovered something, people.
So fucking tight.
We'll be right out here, okay?
Fuck are you guys doing out here?
You know, we didn't initially have a woman in the movie.
We had some women at the initial party.
And then we were afraid to have a woman come back
because it's about a bunch of guys.
And as Danny Boyle's brilliant masterpiece 28 Days Later... proved us anything,
it's that when you have one woman in an apocalyptic situation,
shit gets rape-y.
And whenever people said,
"You should have a woman come back. Have a woman in there."
We'd be like, "This is just going to feel rape-y.
"We don't want it to feel rape-y."
And people would respond, "You're right.
-"Don't do it." - And they were like, "You're right."
And then Ange Giannetti, our studio executive at Sony...
And people should realize
studios don't give you the kind of help we're about to explain.
We said, "We can't have a woman come back.
"It will feel rape-y."
And she said, "You know what? Then make it rape-y! Go with it!"
Yeah. She said, "Make the rape-y a joke.
"Make it embrace the rape-y-ness."
And much to our shock, we did and it worked.
We thought, "You know what? Maybe we can embrace the rape-y-ness
"and make that the joke."
And that's what we did.
And I like to think that this doesn't feel rape-y at all.
I think the whole joke, merely, that we're saying
that we're afraid that we'll come off as rape-y, implies that we would never rape someone.
There's a chance people see that as rape-y and we just don't see it for what it is.
No. I think if you're the type of person that's so hyper aware of that
then I think the last thing you'll do is actually do that.
Obviously.
- I hope that's what people perceive. - Yeah.
I hope that's what people perceive as well.
One who denies it supplies it.
I know, it's farts, I get it.
Guys, guys, guys-
I was right. This was one of those jokes where we were like,
"if this joke doesn't work, we are fucked in the butthole!"
Yeah, this is like the period blood in Superbad.
Yeah, there was no way to cut around it.
There's no other reason Emma Watson leaves this house,
other than overhearing this conversation.
And we needed to have Emma leave to steal our food,
or else it made no sense why we didn't have anything.
We were totally...
In hindsight, we could've always had one of them just eat all the food.
Yeah, that could have worked.
See? We should have shot that as a safety in case this whole rape-y thing went sour.
- Next time. - But, luckily, it didn't.
And it seemed to play pretty well.
I always find that funny how she says that.
"I heard you talk about which one of you is gonna rape me."
-it's a mouthful. We gave her a mouthful. - She says it so fast.
Here's the thing. So, no one knew that Seth
was wearing breakaway glasses at that moment.
And we all thought that she just shattered his nose into a million pieces.
Yeah, she didn't.
I will say, I don't have many skills as an actor.
One of the skills I do have is I'm pretty good at pretending that I got hurt.
I think it's probably because...
Hey, man. Charlie Chaplin had the same skill.
...I got hurt a lot as a kid.
That was a moment we debated heavily.
- Are we really just going to chop a dick... - Are we chopping the dick in half?
And we decided, yeah.
It's the same thing as, "Are we going to give a demon a dick?"
In the end the answer is, "Of course we were."
If it involves a dick, we said yes.
It would be amazing if right now Franco just shot her in the head.
I still think that from that sinkhole sequence, people think that can happen.
I know. It's true.
We just viciously killed so many people so quickly.
Hermione just stole all of our shit.
That joke worked.
It sure did.
And then Jay suggested that we all rape her...
But I like this part.
This joke, the fucking house bitch joke, is fucking crazy to me.
He couldn't sell it more. It seemed so sincere from him.
Yeah. To me that's one of the craziest things anyone said.
Danny... I can't believe he actually did that.
We should have had it in my other nostril 'cause you see it here on this side.
If we had it in the other nostril,
it would truly be a reveal by the time it panned over to me.
I see that not as a failure upon us as directors,
but as you failing as an actor.
I'll take that on myself then. I'll take that.
See? It gets a chuckle.
It would get a bigger laugh...
We could have gotten a full-blown guffaw if we'd played our cards right.
We could have gone from chuckle to guffaw, maybe even a chortle!
No way would we have got a chortle.
Who wants to go first?
We wanted a dramatic scene where people were pulling shit
to see who had to do something.
It's in a lot of movies.
And Craig...
We thought it would just be funny if Craig instantly lost.
That was the joke behind the scene.
This is one of the few scenes...
And then everyone reacts in the worst way possible.
As always.
Craig's got a great beard in this movie.
Hey, he's got a great face.
His eyes are attractive. His hair's luscious.
A lot of facial hair in this film.
This is a... I'm not going to say rip off.
I'm going to choose to say homage from a sequence in the movie The Mist,
wherein a gentleman is going to venture out
and they tie a rope to him, and he goes out,
and I believe they just pull back in a pair of legs, if I'm not mistaken, right?
That's correct, Seth.
Which would have been a funny way for this sequence to end.
It would be funny if they pulled back a pair of another guy's legs.
- Or just, like, a sandwich. - Yeah.
Or like something else. A boot. A fish.
I consider this one of our greatest computer-generated victories.
Yeah, we literally shot this whole thing with black tarps hanging around a set.
The only thing that's real is that wall and I think one of the plants...
- And Craig. - That plant and that fire behind him.
None of that hedge is real. None of the ash in the air is real.
This is from the good people at Hammerhead.
I don't even think the fires are real. Honestly.
Jamie Dixon.
I think we just had lights. I don't think we even had fire.
- I think we had one. No, you're right. - No.
'Cause you can see the light behind it if you look. The way the light halos.
We actually didn't even have fire.
None of the fire is real. That hedge, all the smoke... I mean...
- Craig's torso is fake. - Yeah.
We should shout-out Modus, who did our visual effects.
- This is a Hammerhead moment. - This is a Hammerhead...
We'll shout-out Modus when they're doing the good Modus stuff.
- I'm going to forget otherwise. - I won't forget Modus.
All these claw marks and shit are fake. Digitally...
We used to have a great joke here where he goes,
"My name's Darryl. I play Craig..."
Or was it, "I play Darryl on The Office. Please don't kill me."
"My name's Craig Robinson. I play Darryl on The Office."
But we decided to make this sequence less funny
and more scary and exciting
because the audience seemed to want to be scared and excited.
Not humored.
- We fucking dropped it! We're sorry! - You've got the rope, man!
There are some jokes in there.
But with Craig, you want to stay with him and keep it scarier and more dramatic.
And this is another thing where I truly think
people think the goriest result is what's going to happen...
I think people think Craig's fucking dead right there.
And then they say, "There's our friend, Craig."
"There's Craig. Thank God."
But then, it's not over!
This is one of my favorite jokes in the whole movie.
Yeah, the knife gag worked out pretty well.
Jay's reaction is just the best.
It's like a fucking cartoon moment.
He looks and then screams.
The timing of it is very silly.
I like how Danny just screams under a table.
Danny's not dealing with this situation well.
He just plugs his ears.
What the fuck was that?
I don't know what the fuck that was, but I ain't going back out there.
Craig, you didn't even get any of the water.
The door was fucked up.
Damn it, this is so frustrating!
There's a lot of swearing in this part, I always think.
- Do we swear too much, guys? - No.
Is it too much profanity? Is it too profane? Is that our fault?
If you ever wonder the moment our partnership ended, it was this.
It was this moment.
I think we should go softer, Evan.
I think we should pack in the profanity.
We're going to have children...
I like how from this, Franco later says,
"You always take your shirt off."
I know. He's got a nice body.
He did it once.
Yo.
That was a later plot addition of digging through the floor.
We wrote the movie and it wasn't really that big an element
that we were running out of water.
And then we added the...
And then it felt like there wasn't enough tension in the house,
so we added the idea that we had no water.
First we had the idea that we had very little water,
and that Danny dumped it all out and that Emma stole the remaining drinks.
And then that in order to access the water, we had to dig through the floor and get it.
Which, to us, just made us laugh.
It's just hard to think of shit for guys to do without leaving a fucking house.
So, eventually, you just think maybe you can dig through the floor.
That's a nice activity. And it's all able. We can shoot it on our set.
And that's the story of why the guys dig through the floor.
From Seth and Evan's School of Filmmaking!
Movie.
Just be nicer and follow those commandments.
Listen.
Do you know the Ten Commandments, Evan?
- The first one is don't kill people. - Don't kill people.
- And then you shouldn't steal. - Don't steal. That's two.
- Don't fuck off your parents. - Don't tell your parents to...
- Respect your elders. - Same difference.
Big scene's here.
Do we not even do commentary on this scene?
What's to be said?
Do we assume that even people watching this
just wanna sit back and enjoy this scene?
Now, this was largely...
I think this was probably more scripted than people think it was,
which is complimentary.
We take it up until the, "Like a goddamn pilgrim."
- And then they take it home. - Yeah, all this is written.
It's nice that I'm in this scene. I think it makes the scene a little better
just that there's a dude standing there witnessing it happen.
But it was really hard to be in this scene.
Now, if you watch Seth really closely and think about it, he's clearly trying not to...
- That's all he's doing is trying not to laugh. - I'm really trying not to laugh.
He doesn't move. He keeps his body still,
'cause he's clenching his arms and his stomach in an attempt to not shake.
Franco lost his voice doing this.
Danny made up that line. That always made me laugh.
...to fucking close your eyes and fucking cum wherever you want!
I mean, you're getting all worked up over a fucking porno mag!
This line is the last scripted line of the scene, I believe.
Then they went crazy.
Yeah, I am almost laughing there.
Yet you're jerking your dick like a goddamn pilgrim!
That's right, man. I like to fucking read!
You think that's the only thing ljerked off in here?
- You're literally looking away right now. - I'm just trying not to ruin it.
You feel bad when you laugh when someone else is being funny.
That's what sucks about laughing
is you only do it when someone is being really funny,
and that's the worst time to do it,
because that's when you wanna be able to use what they're doing,
and you ruin it when you laugh.
I've always relished my ability to laugh freely on set.
I know. You see it happen. People look pissed if you ruin it.
I laughed hard enough once or twice that I ruined a take.
- I'm laughing in this scene right there. - Yeah, there he shakes.
- Right there I'm laughing. - He looks away.
It was impossible to avoid.
There I'm almost laughing.
I'm just kind of smiling.
You don't have enough bullets, bitch.
No fucking jerking off in my house, McBride!
I feel like this moment amused you the most, Seth, out of the whole movie
while we were editing.
Yeah, I always liked the lines, "Too late. I've already walked too..."
It's too late, Seth. I've already walked away too much.
I always liked that joke.
...and just fucking turn around and come back and help me.
Danny?
Daniel?
If you're just joining us, this is the This Is the End commentary.
I'm Seth Rogen here with Evan Goldberg.
It's a beautiful day in Los Angeles, California.
It's June 7th, 2013.
- The movie is probably a smash hit. - Probably a future smash hit.
You've probably enjoyed it several times in theaters.
Probably won several Oscars by the time you're listening to this.
Or Superman was just that damn good.
Or literally, you haven't even heard of this movie.
Maybe someone gave you this DVD, thinking you would like it.
And you thought, "What's this? Oh, yeah.
"This Is the End. I think I heard about that movie.
"The third time I saw Superman, I feel like someone might have coughed..."
"After I saw Superman for the first time, I saw a guy coming out of This Is the End."
If Henry Cavill murders someone in the next week, then we have a real shot.
He probably will. He seems like a volatile man.
That would honestly help.
I'd be more likely to see Superman if I knew Superman was a murderer.
Well, then here's the sequel. It's the most meta thing ever.
- We kill him and frame him... - We kill Henry Cavill?
...to make our movie do well.
We make a movie about the movie of us killing him.
That's a pretty good idea.
We make a documentary following us framing Henry Cavill for murder.
That's not a bad idea.
- This Is the End 2: We Need a Beginning. - A New Beginning.
This sequence, we told our DP, "Make it look like The Thing."
And he said, "Well, we need a flashlight."
And we said, "Well, we don't have a flashlight."
Then we said, "Well, maybe Craig has a flashlight in his pocket."
And all this Terry Pete stuff, Craig just came up with.
"Terry Pete."
It's always mystified us. There's no reason it's funny.
It doesn't get a huge laugh,
but the people that laugh, laugh hard enough that it was worth keeping in the movie.
I'll say this. it doesn't get a huge laugh, but people afterwards, you hear them saying,
"Terry Pete." It's a quotable line.
We try to have some references.
There's Oscar dresses in the background, there's a Milk poster,
there's his arm from 127 Hours.
I also think it's worth mentioning, in the drug sequence earlier,
we shot a thing where Franco was the Green Goblin throwing tennis balls.
And we actually got the mask that he had, and the armbands with the razors,
and Danny had a shirt with the Spider-Man emblem,
and Craig was dressed as Mary Jane, and we did a whole scene.
- But it just didn't click with people. - No, it really didn't.
The two heroes over here, breaking through the floor.
We did break through the floor.
Any of you guys would have done the same thing.
Oh, man. That fucking hurt.
Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't shart again.
I think I did.
Coming up here, we got Danny wasting the water a second time.
It's worth saying that when he gets the gun in his mouth from Franco,
it took us, I believe, like 17 times. Something like that.
- That was one of the hardest... -it took 17 times to get it.
Everyone just kept laughing.
It's on the gag reel, I think, four of the attempts.
It got to the point where everyone was like, "We can't do this. We have to move on."
And we were just like, "Fuck, no. We are getting this."
It was the most...
But Bill Hader on Superbad when he had to say,
"I'm sorry I blocked your cock." That was, like, 28 times.
Yeah, he had to do that a lot of times.
So this is number two. This wins the silver.
When I was young, I used to always complain that things weren't fair.
If I didn't get the same thing as my sister, I'd say, "That's not fair, Dad."
And my dad would always say, "Fair and equal are not the same."
That was where we got the idea for this scene.
Danny doesn't think it's fair that everyone is splitting things equally.
He thinks things should be more proportional to their actual, physical size.
So this is a lesson I learned from my father, that fair and equal are not the same.
- And that's why you will never be fit. - That's why. Because I just deserve more.
The fatter I am, the more I deserve. That's what's nice about that.
- I like the noise Danny makes here. - He just screams like crazy.
What are you doing?
- If you're just joining us... -I was going to pull the same shit.
- Video commentary. - Yeah, here. This joke.
And in theater, no one ever hears him say nerd.
'Cause they're laughing too hard when he goes, "That's what I thought."
You just talked over "nerd." Now, they'll never hear "nerd."
"Nerd's" not in the movie even.
This scene, for some reason when we shot,
everyone acted way crazier than they normally act.
The extended version is also on the DVD.
Craig started talking about vinegarjuice,
and Jonah talks about how Danny's a bumblebee that stings you once and dies.
- They all went bonkers. - Everyone was in a weird mood this day.
And Franco's all, "Gots to go. Go."
I don't know where the fuck he got that, or why he did that,
but it makes me laugh every time I see it.
We shot the whole intervention.
We actually filmed us sitting him down and explaining that he has to leave.
Kind of defeated the whole purpose of the last scene.
And then we realized that you can just cut in here.
That's what you call a waste of time.
- Seth and Evan's School of Filmmaking - Making movies
We should open an audio school of filmmaking, I think, maybe...
- We'll start with Green Hornet LivePlace. - Exactly.
"Oh, no. Hello."
We'll do tutorials online.
We can just open a back studio at the Lee Strasberg acting studios.
We'll be the new... Who's the guy that gives the tips on Final Draft?
- Syd. .. - Syd Meyers.
I can't remember. Doesn't matter.
- Syd Field. - Yes! Syd Field.
We'll be the new Syd Field.
- Finally. - Thank God.
Thank God that joke was able to come to fruition.
"Tears from the tip of my penis."
This was a great run by Danny. He improvised most of that stuff.
I'll never forget Kyle and Ariel, the EPs, came up and were like,
"it says, 'Crying and comin', and comin' and crying.'
"But we really think it should be, 'Come and cry, crying comin'."'
And I was just like, "Guys, I don't know if this is..."
"I don't know how to give that note."
I think Jonah might have come up with the "cum for help" joke. I don't remember.
It's such a good joke, I think we should take credit.
The guys would pitch each other jokes, which was nice.
That doesn't always happen on movies.
- No, usually, they hold them. - They hold them, keep them for themselves.
This joke plays well in the theater.
It's fun how everyone knows exactly what's gonna happen.
But they really think he's gonna blow everyone's brains out.
Yeah, this is a long-term joke, this gun,
and it paid off pretty well. Thank God.
It took us a little while to edit it in the exact right way, but it really played.
I remember when Franco had the gun in the inventory scene,
and he was about to walk away with it. I said,
"How about you never let go of the gun for the rest of the movie?"
And he was like, "Great idea." And he held on to the gun.
And if you watch, he's never not holding the gun until right now.
After this moment, he doesn't hold it anymore.
-'Cause he's made his mistake. - Yeah, he always has it.
I would never do that as an actor. That's such a commitment.
What, keeping your props?
Having a prop you gotta keep the whole time, put it down, play with it.
I see what you're saying.
- Well, you just get a lanyard on your hip. - A lanyard.
...never made a goddamn mistake before.
Franco, you're just a pretentious fucking nerd.
Fuck you.
- This part always makes me laugh. - Just 'cause there's no context.
Just Jonah's reaction to being called a cunt is so funny.
He kept calling him a sassy little bitch, which made me laugh also.
"You're extra sassy for some reason."
Jonah, any time Danny said his name, he would start laughing.
"Jonah. Hey, Jonah."
Jonah just couldn't even deal with that. It was pretty fucking funny to watch.
Jonah had never acted with Danny, right?
So he had a bit of difficulty keeping it together,
'cause Dannyjust really made him laugh.
My ankle. Something's happened.
What is happening to me?
- You got restless leg syndrome. - Do I?
You ain't gonna make it through this audio commentary.
I Qot RLS?
Is it restless? It's not That'd be wrestles leg syndrome.
I think I have it sometimes. My legs get antsy as fuck.
Yeah.
Whose do you think are wrestles-er? How do you test it?
I'm the one who fidgets all the time. You're not very restless.
I'm pretty fidgety, I think.
- Well, you're wrong. I'm fidgety. - Fuck you, Evan.
Remember that thing you and Aziz do in Observe and Report?
- That was a funny "Fuck you" exchange. - That's true.
We could get in some commentary for some of our other movies
-while we're in here. ls there any other facts... - Wait. I like this punch.
- Let it happen. - Okay, I'll just let it happen.
I'm gonna add a sound effect.
This is what I wanted it to sound like when it happens in the movie.
- Hey! Whoa! - Jay, damn, man.
We should just add all the sound effects that we actually wanted for the rest of it.
This prayer was largely improvised by Jonah.
We asked him to say, "From Moneyball." I can't remember, actually.
- I think we did. -It doesn't matter.
Why are we so proprietary over these jokes, Evan?
Who cares who came up with them?
'Cause the Writers Guild pays you based on jokes per minute in film.
- Few people know that. - That's what most people don't get.
They have a way of measuring laughter in Hollywood,
called LOLs.
The more LOLs your movie generates, the more money you get.
It's roughly $3 per LOL.
Yes, so though Pineapple Express made less money than Superbad,
-it had a higher LOL rate. - It had a higher LOL average.
Yeah, our LOLs were through the roof, so we really cleaned up on that.
It's a Scientology thing, if you don't know about it. Look it up.
It's all deeply rooted in Scientologist beliefs.
LOL's a space god. It's a whole thing.
But this movie, the more LOLs that are credited to me and Evan,
-the more money we get. - Hashtag laughs.
Stop, man.
Seriously, Craig, stop.
Your nails are sharp.
The other thing is that penis that you saw,
we really amped it up and gave it some shine and veiny-ness
so that it would hopefully get rejected by the MPAA, so they would reduce our rating,
and we would just pull it back a bit. It was a trick we learned from Team America.
Apparently, the sex scene, they went way too far.
And they just let us use the version that we thought was way too far.
So, we got away with that big, veiny dick.
Something not that chill happened last night.
Yo, so, I just drank my own pee for the first time.
And it ain't bad. I never thought to do it.
I always thought, you know, pee stink, whatever, but...
- Now this scene of me pissing in my mouth... - This was the last shot of the entire movie.
Literally, when this bottle of piss ran out...
I'm just holding, literally, one of those squeezable ketchup bottles
filled with yellow Gatorade right below the camera line.
What you don't know is we filled it with real piss.
Good thing that's your thing.
That's why I became so sexually aroused when it hit my face.
I didn't understand why.
'Cause I'm like, "I don't get turned on by Gatorade getting sprayed in my mouth,
"but I do get turned on by piss. Why is this doing this to me?"
It was one of those rare moments where I was directing you without you knowing it.
You did. You used piss to direct me.
Jonah played this well.
His post-demon-rape stupor, I guess you would call it.
And then you reveal the scratch on his arm is real.
It wasn't just a dream!
Thank you.
You got this, dawg.
What we tried to do here emotionally is show
that it's really just between me and Jay in this showdown.
It's very subtle filmmaking, they call that.
If anyone asks what our style is, we should say subtle.
It's subtle with some panache.
We have a subtle filmmaking style.
Subtle yet filled with panache.
Jay's got crazy hair.
Well, you all have crazy hair in this.
Jay in particular is pretty crazy.
- We all look like wild men. - Franco looks pretty bananas.
We're supposed to be surviving the fucking Apocalypse.
The width of Jay's sideburns compared to the width of yours...
People are just different, I guess.
I think that's the moral of this movie, people are just different.
This movie has the same moral as the movie Volcano.
And Dante's Peak.
We're all the same color while covered in ash, and that's gray.
- Holy shit, I forgot about that moment. - Oh, yeah.
What do you mean? Do you mean you forgot about the point of the whole movie?
I'm sorry if I'm not too up to snuff on Volcano.
Special apology to Neal Moritz.
All these shots of the house are completely computer-generated, or CG.
That's my favorite shot in the movie.
I find Seth's pathetic-ness in that shot very humorous.
I'm sitting on this chair that was at one point kind of a plot...
Like, Franco has this ridiculous chair, a Wendell Taggart lounge plank.
We cut it out, though, for the most part. That's the only time it's actually used.
I called dibs on that chair.
Yeah, what the fuck happened to all that furniture we were supposed to get?
We'll find out, or we won't. That's Hollywood, man.
I'm putting you on blast, Chris Spellman.
This shot you're about to see was, for some reason,
the hardest visual effects shot of literally the entire movie.
And it's not that good even.
- I still am not happy with it. - No, no, no.
It wasn't the building itself. They couldn't get the landing.
The pan. It didn't land. It doesn't feel like a camera fucking landing.
It kept snapping into place.
We're like, "Make it feel real, like a camera guy is turning."
And it will haunt us till the day we die.
- And that's why me and Evan... - This is the last film we will ever make.
...are gonna dock iodine.
We're gonna dock poison into each other's penises.
- Hemlock. - Hemlock dock. We're gonna hemdock.
That's how Socrates died.
I will say, I couldn't do it. So maybe...
That's how Cockrates died.
If you kill me, and just dock yourself to death on me, that would be funny.
- That would be a good out joke. -After you're dead?
It's like we actually do one gay thing, and it kills us.
Are we hemlock dock?
The weirdest thing is I'm having déjé vu about this moment right now.
We've done this before.
So we always thought it would be funny
if Jonah got raped by a devil and then possessed.
And then years later, we made this movie.
Years later, we found ourselves writing This Is the End, and thought,
"Hey, this could be a good time to use that joke."
In this scene where Jay and Craig get chased by the demon dog,
we had a whole thing where Craig hides under the kitchen counter
and eats Milky Ways.
- Yeah. - That was funny.
There's a lot of visual effects in this sequence.
Jonah, he's not wearing much actual makeup at all.
Everything done to his skin color, and skin pigment, and his eyes
and all the veins, pretty much all of that is done in post.
Actors watching this should take note that you never should wear makeup.
They can fix it later.
Anytime they're like, "You need to sit in this makeup chair for three hours,"
you can be like, "Nope, I heard the audio commentary for This Is the End,
"and I don't need to fucking do that, Mr. Director Man."
Unless you're less famous than Jonah.
Yeah, if you're less famous than Jonah, then you do need to,
because it's too expensive to do it to you.
That's why you gotta chase that golden dream of getting big like Jonah.
That little glob coming out of Franco's mouth is computer-genermated.
No, no, it was.
We enhanced it with computers, then we went back.
No, that's computer-gemerated.
- It's not pronounced gemerated? - They gemerated that?
- They computer-gemerated that. - They didn't gemerate that.
- I'm pretty sure that's gemerated. - That's an insult to his acting.
He made it perfect, 'cause he's good.
I think that's commuter-gemerated.
It's not gemerated.
The Apocalypse is nigh!
We made up a bunch of biblical stuff, which is fun to do.
It's fun rewriting the Bible. It's written pretty well,
but you realize if you punch it up a bit and kind of take out some lines...
They just didn't have as many adjectives back then.
And then there's some run-on sentences.
Once you abridge it, the Bible actually comes out pretty nicely.
And here, you don't have to sleep in a friggin' tent under a dick.
So in this scene coming up,
you see a giant, horned dog-like creature chasing Jay and Craig.
Now, directors do this thing
where they want everything to be real, or as they say in the biz, "in camera."
I think by the time this movie comes out,
it'll be more like directors used to do this thing.
And that means that instead of having a computer-generated creature,
you want an in-camera creature, something you actually film or a guy in a suit.
- What you tell yourself is it's real. -It's real and it's cool.
- Real is real, and you can't beat real. - And people say, "it's hard to do that now."
And you say, "I'm good. I can light it and shoot it in such a way
"that even though it's a guy in a suit essentially,
"it'll be very scary and dramatic."
And then you find yourself filming a guy in a suit,
a guy who's literally probably smaller than Jay and Craig,
a guy that Craig could literally pound the living shit out of if he really wanted to.
And we designed a cool demon costume for him.
Yeah, but it just wasn't working.
We were like, "We're those guys.
"We're those guys who said they could do it, and now, we can't do it."
And the suit was good. We just didn't do it.
And so we replaced the guy in the suit with a giant demon dog creature,
and it worked a lot better.
And this is the moment where we plug Modus.
Yes, 'cause they built this demon dog creature really fast
as a last-minute replacement for this other thing.
- And it's fucking awesome. - Yeah, it's unbelievable.
- It looks really good. - Modus did most of the VFX in the movie.
They designed it well, and this whole thing, all of that, was like...
This shot we actually filmed...
Now, actually, we have the thing running around back there.
Yeah, we had him running around.
Craig hiding with a bat he could easily kill it with.
He could easily beat the demon to death with if it was the other demon.
In my head, it was super strong.
That's the silliest moment in the whole movie, to me.
- Snap zoom. - The snap zoom and the...
Shit!
Now, in this part, Jonah laughed very hard.
Yeah, the joke, "Are you a big B or a small C?"
made him laugh harder than I've ever seen him laugh in my life,
and we had to wait a few minutes for him to calm down to film again.
Yeah, it was very, very, very funny.
For some reason, that thing was CG, I remember.
I'll never understand why they had to make a CG coat hanger.
No, they threw it at me. it got all flimsy.
- Really? - Yeah.
This whole hallway isn't there. That's just a wall behind Jay,
and we extended it with the visual arts.
"The visual arts."
Notice the teats on the bottom of the dog monster.
It's a mother.
Which means, where's its baby?
In the sequel.
This part really gets me good.
I like Franco's face right here.
Watch his face. Watch it.
Where are you going?
Shit.
This is like a Scooby-Doo-type joke.
You're literally hiding in a closet together.
Yeah, and we realized this whole breathing joke
actually came from...
...came from just the fact that I breathe super-duper-duper fucking loud.
And we realized that if I was hiding in a closet,
I probably would breathe actually too loud for us to hide effectively.
So we came up with this idea that I don't know where to breathe from.
This part's kind of scary. Jonah's scary in this part.
Yeah, Jonah's terrifying.
His hands have no real makeup on it. That always blows my mind.
All that's done with what we call "commuter-gemergated meffects."
- This is a great stunt. - Yes.
I feel like these guys really sold this.
These two dudes just fell down a fucking flight of stairs.
There's not a whole lot of ways to fake that one.
I sometimes picture that they're like, "Yeah, it was no problem."
And then they go home and cry for several hours.
They probably do.
That's what you call a "fake scare."
- What are you doing? - What are you doing?
There's a fuckin' demon chasing us!
- A demon? - Demon?
- What the fuck happened to you guys? - That!
- It's Jonah! - He's possessed!
He's crazy!
That sound took us a little while to find.
Me and Evan always pictured a particularly "plungy" sound. it worked well.
Is now when we give props to Michael Babcock, our overall sound guy?
- Sound designer? - They do not like being called sound guys.
- It's sound engineer. - Sound designer? Sound engineer?
No, that's something different, I think.
- The Grand Wizard of Sound. - The Grandmaster of Sound.
- The Elvis... - The Commodore of Sound.
The Chancellor of Sound.
- Well, it's Babcock. - Michael Babcock, everybody.
He made this movie sound good.
- This was fun. - Fuck. I got you. Don't worry about it.
I'm good. I'm good. My microphone almost fell.
This is where they finally deal with the actual topic of the film.
Which is that it's the Apocalypse.
This scene was a little edgy, because there's not a lot of scenes
where the characters are really discussing religious stuff
and whether or not they believe in God, or don't believe in God, and what they think.
And this was the one scene we kind of resisted writing for a little while,
'cause we were like, "Are we really just gonna talk about it?"
And then we just started talking about it,
and it was really funny, because it felt real, I think.
This scene was marred by the fact
that for weeks, I had to be covered in black fucking slime
that Jonah vomited all over me.
It was really funny. How did they make it shine, Seth?
It was K-Y Jelly mixed with black paint.
And they literally had buckets full of it, giant buckets of it.
- And before the take, I would stand there... - And they'd lube you up.
Two people would literally get giant paintbrushes
and paint K-Y Jelly all over my body.
And it would kind of dry, and crust up and flake.
And now, without at least a little K-Y on you, you're not happy.
The upside is it made it much easier for me to butt-fuck regularly.
Hlubes.
- It lubes well. -It's a lubricant.
I wonder what happened to spermicidal lubricant.
That used to be a big thing when I was in high school and university.
Spermicidal lubricant.
Maybe it just seemed too aggressive, or maybe it never worked.
It's just not a sexy word.
- Let's get spermicidal, baby. - He's a spermicidal maniac.
- He's committed mass spermicide. - Mass spermicide.
Have you heard in Darfur there's a mass spermicide?
- That joke's too far. - That's too far? I don't think it is.
I think we're treading on edgy ground, but I don't think that's too far.
...first eyeball was an accident,
but then I was, like, fuck it, and I went for the second one.
It was fucked up.
We improvised a lot of terrible things. Speaking of too far,
we had a lot of jokes that we improvised about bad things we had done,
and maybe that's why we're here.
And some of them are actually so offensive and bad
that I felt really bad even saying some of them,
but I said them to kind of coax the other guys to say bad stuff.
And then I was actually convinced
that we should test some of the stuff that we tried,
and it was actually one of the more humiliating moments I've ever had.
'Cause some of the jokes were so offensive and just died.
No one laughed at them.
And there's one joke in particular that we will not say,
that I convinced Seth we should leave in 'cause I knew it would die.
- Why did you do that to me? - I just wanted to see it happen.
That's not very nice.
- Well, that's why I'm leaving... - There was a 5% chance...
That's why if you watch any of the EPK footage on this DVD,
Evan looks like a fucking idiot.
He's wearing a shirt with a pug riding a horse or something.
I don't look very good.
It looks like he has a funny body that's being operated by puppeteers offstage.
I struck a weird posture, I sat in my chair wrong,
and I wore a shirt that usually makes people smile,
but it kind of backfired on me.
I was open to reshooting some of that EPK footage,
but now, I'm not going to, because you mocked me.
You're literally taking money out of your own bank account.
- We look so unprofessional. - I don't care.
No one's gonna wanna hire those two guys.
It's too late. It's in.
You're willing to ruin your own career just for a laugh?
I am just to bring you down with me.
This was funny to shoot. Jonah improvised a lot of this stuff.
We had originally wrote it that he's saying dirty stuff.
"You will suck cocks in hell," and all this shit.
And then we re-watched The Exorcist, and realized even the crazy shit we wrote
wasn't as crazy as the shit that Linda Blair says in The Exorcist,
and she's like a 10-year-old girl.
So it was way more shocking than anything we had.
So Jonah actually came up with the idea to go in this direction with it,
where he's just kind of talking to Jay
almost like a completely regular asshole would be talking to him.
In The Exorcist, did they have her say words that sound like those words and re-record it,
or did they just have a 10-year-old girl say that shit?
No, I think she actually said it.
Well, then that's terrible of everybody involved in that movie to do.
That's super fucked up.
It's true. We did some...
- Not to 10-year-olds, yo. - No, 10-year-olds, dude.
Yeah, and all this... Jonah was really funny.
All improv, all Jonah's lines, I think, or most of them at least, are improv-ed.
It was fun making this bed rig.
We just actually made it wobble up and down.
Jonah rode it around. It was pretty fun.
"The power of Christ compels you!"
We made some tongs and a spatula into a crucifix.
That was the big moment where Jason Stone, Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter,
our executive producers,
insisted that Seth yank him down, and we fought it hard.
- And they were right. - They were right.
All this Jonah improvised. "Let 'em fight." And that gets huge laughs.
And it was very funny of Jonah to interject in that regard.
This is where Seth and Jay get emotional as characters.
And this was fucking kind of just lame,
and then when Jonah started doing this, it made it really funny. So thank God.
- Thanks, Jonah. - Thanks, Jonah.
This is a visual effect.
The candle landed in front of the sheet,
and the wizards who worked with us made it come behind.
And the flame went out. That flame on the candle itself was added.
Craig always makes me laugh here.
"I would have sucked a dick for half a cracker.
"I didn't want to suck it! That's what I'm saying."
it always makes me laugh
that Franco and Craig are literally about to engage in a giant argument
as to what he meant about sucking a dick for a cracker,
and that's what is interrupted by Jonah being on fire.
Pretty fucked up how much food Franco kept for himself.
He has a lot of food in there.
I'd have kept a bit of food if I was him. It was his food.
- Really? - But not that much.
You would have?
I wouldn't have lied. I'd be like, "I get a bit more. It's my fucking food, guys."
"it's my fucking house, motherfuckers."
"You don't like it, leave the house and get no food."
I'm not gonna pretend I'm not keeping more food.
This dude, we lit on fire, like, 20 times.
- Nine times. - Nine times over the course of a day.
- I believe he set a record actually. - This fire isn't fake.
We lit a fucking guy on fire, and he ran around.
- He jumped off that thing. - Yes, and those are all the real actors.
He did all that shit. I mean, it was crazy.
We filmed all this stuff.
A little bit of that fire is fake on the couch.
- A little bit. - A little bit of the couch fire is fake.
- But for the most part, the fire is real. - That's all real.
It was amazing what this guy did. I couldn't believe it. I felt bad.
You feel bad making people do stunts for a comedy.
Yeah, if it was Schindler's List, we'd be like, "This is gonna mean a lot."
"This will be meaningful."
For this, you're like, "it's a fucking giant dick joke,
"and we're putting people in danger."
But it's okay. You gotta do what you gotta do.
That shot of the house collapsing... It's okay.
It's not our best visual effects shot, I'm gonna say right now.
This shot, on the other hand, is awesome.
We had to have a best, and we had to have a worst.
These demons look very good, I think, in the end.
They are scary.
You don't wanna get confronted with that thing.
You don't wanna get confronted with it.
This song.
This is Craig's badass moment.
We told our composer to try to make it sound like a cool moment
-from an '80s action movie. - Think Lethal Weapon, perhaps.
Think Lethal Weapon or perhaps a Van Damme film or something of that nature.
Sudden Death.
And he did a very good job, I think.
...Isn't for me.
It's for you guys.
Craig, you don't have to do that.
Everything behind Craig is fake. All that background is fake.
We were standing in the parking lot of our soundstage when we filmed this stuff.
The visual effects wizards that did our computer-gemerated effects,
they made it look like a real place. It was amazing.
That house isn't there. All that stuff's fake. It's crazy.
Literally, only the doorway was there. None of that stuff behind Craig.
Yeah, it's amazing what they can do these days
for not much money if you find the right people.
And that is another lesson from
Seth and Evan's School of Filmmaking
Seth and Evan
- Make movies - Make movies
Now, if you listen closely, they're singing...
Take off yo panties
They really are.
Take off yo panties
And when he goes up, they go...
Take your panties off
We actually had a choir do that.
They seemed into it.
That joke makes me laugh every time.
Take your panties off
We used to play Canned Heat, and they kind of forgot about their worries
and just grooved along, kind of jamming out in this scene for a good minute.
And then we realized that was boring.
And we just wanted to make it go faster. We wanted to kind of...
I don't wanna say we wanted to rush through to the ending,
but we knew we were on the home stretch, and you kind of don't wanna dilly-dally.
You wanna keep it rolling at this point, keep it moving.
We filmed this in a street in New Orleans that we turned down into the Apocalypse.
We had tons of cars that we lit on fire.
They made these giant freeway signs that were awesome-looking.
And it really looked like a fucking pretty nasty, hellish landscape.
And I'm very pleased with how this looked in the end. Aren't you, Evan?
Yeah, you know...
- Not so much, Evan? - No, this part's great.
That shot is, of course, a rip-off of many shots in many movies.
There's a million shots where a car crash happens,
and you're inside the car with the guys.
I think maybe The Bourne Ultimatum was one of the first ones.
- Adaptation. - Adaptation does it pretty well.
We thought, "Hey, why not throw our names in the hat?"
This is the Def tones. We used to listen to a lot of the Def tones.
Loved the Def tones.
- That's Ricky Mabe right there. - That's our friend, Ricky Mabe.
That's our cinematographer who's holding me with the kitty-cat paint on his face.
And his brother's beside him with the eye patch.
That's BTRO and JTRO, or Brandon Trost and Jason Trost.
Or just the Tro Bros.
We thought it would be good if Danny had some fresh Air Jordans.
Here's where we should say Danny Glicker, our wardrobe designer.
Yeah, that wasn't our idea. That was the Glick's idea.
He's an awesome guy.
Danny Glicker could be considered a modern-day genius. He is.
Yeah, that's our cinematographer, Brandon Trost,
with the muscles painted on his body and the kitty-cat nose.
Now, a lot of people are probably wondering
how the fuck did we get Channing Tatum to do this?
First, we should say that's always Channing Tatum.
- That's Channing Tatum. - Like right now, touching Danny's dick.
That's Channing. It's never another guy with a mask on,
and then it's only Channing when he pulls the mask off.
It's always Channing.
Two full nights of Channing scampering around.
I emailed him.
We weren't gonna have a famous person playing the sexual gimp
'cause we just assumed no one would.
And then we were like, "Maybe Channing will do it."
And I emailed him literally saying,
"There's a scene where Danny is a cannibal king,
"and he has a gimp on the end of a leash who he talks about butt-fucking.
"And then we thought it would be funny
"if he pulls off the mask, and you reveal that it's you."
And I'm like, "I know this sounds crazy."
And I'm like, "This is it. That's the whole role, basically."
And I got an email back, like, 20 minutes later being like,
"I'm in. I'll do it. Where do you need me to be and when?"
And he got cuts and scrapes.
If you see some of the makeup, it's mostly not makeup on his body.
- Yeah, no, he was running around. - He's got a scrape. He's bleeding.
- There is dirt all over him. - Yeah, it's pretty spectacular.
We had a good shot where he flashed his taint at the screen at one point.
We did a shot over his butt cheeks, but it was a bit much.
We actually were probably the first people
that put too much of Channing Tatum's body in a movie.
We hit the limit. We found the wall.
And the wall is basically when you can see inside his butthole.
That's the wall, the butthole Wall.
Eat this!
- You felt that one, Evan. - Yeah.
That was a fake brick, you know.
I let the movies take me where they need to.
Let them take you where they want you to be.
I'm not the director.
I'm just a guy watching the bloody movie and going with the hits.
Yeah, and that's Brandon's brother with the eye patch, Jason.
This is a lot of visual effects going on here.
Franco's standing on a box in that shot.
Franco fought us on this. He didn't think he should die.
He really didn't wanna die, and we said, "You have to die."
And then he actually came up with this idea that he starts getting sucked up,
and then he's being petty, and so it doesn't keep him.
That joke's literally from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
The way the light turns off.
It turns off, he looks around and then falls, which is so stupid.
Now, here's the biggest moment that didn't make the movie.
Yeah, we had it that Channing cut Franco's foot off.
And you see every moment of what we're explaining.
And Channing pulls his mask off and then eats Franco's bloody stump.
- As blood sprays all over his face. - As blood is spraying all over his face.
Screaming like a hyena.
Yeah, and audiences just don't wanna see Channing Tatum do that.
That's what we learned also.
They wanna see him do almost everything except eat James Franco's foot.
I don't think that's on the DVD. That should be on the DVD.
- The Channing stump. - The full Channing stump effect.
Over here.
- What? Over here, over here. - Here. What?
I always wished this chase was a little more exciting.
We didn't really have much time to film it, though.
This is a symptom of our budget, I would say, more than anything.
I feel like before we ramp into the end,
we should mention the one person we haven't, which is James Weaver,
-our fellow producer. - James Weaver, our producer.
Who made all this happen with his hard work.
He did. Did he?
- I think he helped. - I think he did, too.
Not like a lot.
- But he was there. - He was around the whole time.
And we should thank the studio
for helping make this the biggest comedy of all time.
It's crazy how they doubled Superman's marketing budget at the last minute.
- I know. It's amazing. - And went all in like that.
And it's crazy how no one's won every Oscar before.
Yeah, but thanks to Sony and their relentless spending...
And it's cool how we won Best Foreign Film, even,
-'cause we're not even a foreign film. - We're Canadian.
I know. They figured out a way to do that. It was cool.
Yeah, so big ups to Sony for all the money they were just hurling at this.
Let's talk demon dick for a couple minutes now.
If you're just joining us, this is Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg,
-doing the commentary. - And we're talking demon dick
-on June 7th here. -It's June 7th, 2013.
You know, getting on our knees and talking about dick.
So this demon didn't have a dick at first.
Obviously, all this is computer-generated. We couldn't afford to find a real demon.
For the last time in our lives,
we had the thought maybe we shouldn't do a dick joke.
"Maybe we shouldn't do a dick," we thought. We thought, "Maybe we're better than that."
We thought, "Maybe our ending is so exciting and good,
"we don't need a giant dick joke in order to make it really sing, as it were."
And then what we saw was a giant, fleshy mound
where a giant joke could be flopping.
Well, and we made a mistake at first. We tried a small dick.
We thought maybe like,
"People are gonna expect a big dick. Let's go with a reallyjiggly small dick
-"with a big bush." -it's, like, a little normal dick.
And then that just didn't read that well.
- Well, 'cause the humor is the flop. - Yeah, the flopping dick.
So then, it wasn't until later that we decided to give it this giant dick.
And even still, it wasn't until later
that we realized we can cut the dick off and have it crush a skyscraper.
So that was really exciting to us.
- We got to shout-out to Paul Linden. - Our visual effects supervisor.
Big help on that dick.
- He really brought that dick to life. - He brought that dick to life.
This was all shot on a green screen essentially.
From when my feet leave the ground on.
This is just me and Jay hanging from wires.
And everything else was done in post. All this stuff.
It was hard to give it a sense of scale.
We found clouds helped a lot.
The more clouds it was pushing through,
and the more you can see it amongst the clouds,
and moving through the clouds was helpful.
And seeing the buildings like that in the streets was helpful.
Giving it its massive size wasn't easy. Shots like this helped.
And we found putting buildings in the foreground was helpful to help scale it.
Yeah, this wasn't easy, this whole sequence.
Yeah, the whole going up and going down with the beam.
- Yeah, that was hard... - But none of it matters, 'cause this song.
The fact that we have this song is fucking insane.
And every time it comes on, I think, "I can't believe they let us use this song."
Yeah, to the people at the Whitney Houston estate...
- We thank you. - God bless you.
Hats off to you.
You have a great sense of humor.
Yeah. It's really amazing. Or you just love money.
I think they got the humor.
Either way, we thank you.
We think some people are thinking,
"Seth's gonna die right now. He's gonna get eaten."
As Whitney Houston comes in, we cut a giant demon's dick off.
- And its balls explode. Don't forget it. - And save me. Its balls explode!
It flops to the ground and crushes the building.
- As one does. - As one does.
We kept saying, "Floppier," to the visual effects house.
-"But the penis would not flop like this." -"it would not flop like this."
Now this is our best shot from anything we've ever done.
And here again, we'd say, "Floppier."
There's some smoke coming off of it.
- That's our opus right there, that shot. -It's true.
That's what they played when we won the Oscars, that shot.
When they invented an Oscar for us.
Now, okay, we'll be honest.
Originally, when we wrote the movie, there was a heaven sequence.
And then we thought it was stupid, so we cut the heaven sequence.
'Cause we thought we just didn't execute it very well.
And the movie ended literally with this shot that you're looking at right now.
This was the last shot of the movie.
Fade to white. The end.
That didn't work very well.
Literally, every audience was like, "Why the hell didn't you show heaven?"
"Where's heaven? Why didn't you show heaven?"
"You couldn't think of a heaven? You thought of so much crazy shit.
"Would it fucking kill you to think of a heaven?"
And then with our Sony rainbow.
Yes, we decided that we needed to think of a heaven.
And so we thought...
This is what we thought of, basically.
Our high point in the movie...
First, there was a lot of debate. Who's in heaven? Are all the guys in heaven?
As dumb as the logic of the movie is, we couldn't go against our logic,
so it had to be only the people who went to heaven are in heaven.
So that's only Craig, basically.
And then we thought, "What happens in heaven?"
And we always said, "They could smoke weed with Bob Marley.
"Play guitar with Jimi Hendrix. Dance with Michael Jackson.
"Get a BJ from Marilyn Monroe."
But then you're just like... It's all impersonators.
And you've kind of seen that joke in a million things before.
So we thought this wish fulfillment thing was funny
where anything they wish will happen.
And then we thought, "What would they wish for?"
And the Backstreet Boys thing, independently, always played well.
And again, it's kind of like Seth and Jay's emotional high point in the movie
where we're getting along the best, and we're the happiest.
And I was trying to figure it out one night with my wife,
and she jokingly, when we were watching the start of the movie,
said, "Wouldn't that be cool if it was the Backstreet Boys?"
And then I came to work, and I remember I told you and just forgot.
And then later on, it just came back.
It just came back. "What if it was the Backstreet Boys?"
It came back like the Backstreet Boys came back.
Are you giving Lisa credit for thinking of this?
- She did. - I don't think that's true.
- She did, man. - I'm taking credit away from your wife.
- You can't. She took it. She took it. - I'm saying that's bullshit.
I think you're just trying to do this to try to get more goodwill from her.
More sex from my wife? No.
I think it was my wife's idea.
How about they came up with it together?
How about our wives came up with it together?
This was our wives' idea.
The whole heaven sequence was our wives' idea.
Our wives came up with this stuff.
My wife came up with more of it.
But my wife came up with the good stuff.
We shot this whole thing on a green screen, which was kind of fun, actually.
I kind of enjoyed shooting all on a green screen.
And now, the fucking Backstreet Boys came out.
I can't believe we got all of them.
I knew it was a good idea, 'cause Jay Baruchel literally hates everything.
You tell him anything, and he's like, "Really? That's what we're doing?"
Literally, if you're like, "I like the blues," "I don't like the blues."
He doesn't like the Beatles.
"You're into the Beatles? I don't like the Beatles." Really?
And then I remember when we told him, "We have to re-shoot this thing.
"We wanna shoot a new ending, and we got the Backstreet Boys."
I was ready for him to be like, "The Backstreet Boys, come on."
And he literally went, "Really?" And we were like, "Yeah."
And then he went, "All of them?" I was like, "Yeah, we got all of them."
And he was like, "That's amazing. That's awesome."
And that was when I was like...
- There's Zelda again. - There's Zelda.
Ahjhai made it to heaven.
And me and my wife are in the background of that Zelda shot.
And then that's when we realized the Backstreet Boys might be a good idea,
and that the people might enjoy it.
If Jay likes it, and Jay hates everything,
then maybe your average audience member will like it too.
What's amazing is we only had like 100 people when we shot this,
and it looks like there's 10,000 people there.
All of this stuff is fake.
That was Evan and his wife dancing. Evan looked like Moses.
The Backstreet Boys, they brought the thunder.
- They really did it. - We have to thank them.
They're the real heroes here.
So I guess our final thanks is to the motherfucking Backstreet Boys.
Is to the Backstreet Boys.
Backstreet is back.
They never really left.
One more thing.
See how all these title cards are different colors?
We had to tell them three times to do that
because they thought we were joking, because it was so stupid.
We're big Stanley Kubrick fans, and he did that.
In Eyes Wide Shut, he did that.
It's very simple font, and they just use different bright colors.
And we were like, "Let's try that."
And I'll never forget. They were like...
There literally was a chuckle, and we were like, "Okay."
And we had to keep telling them.
It just makes it fun, 'cause you're like, "Green. Blue."
It's fun. You're like, "What color is gonna be next?
"Oh, my God. James Franco is blue. What does that mean?"
"I wonder why they chose pink for Jonah."
"Why did they show pink for Jonah? ls there a subtext?"
-"Seth's red." -"Seth Rogen is red. What an egomaniac.
"He picked the brightest color."
Anyway, if you're just joining us,
this is the end of the This Is the End commentary.
I hope you enjoyed this. I hope you learned a lot.
Your support is what helped us win the Oscars, the Grammys,
-and all the other awards that we've won. - All the stuff.
We won a Pulitzer for this film.
And again, thanks to Sony
forjust pissing money away like it was nothing on the Oscar campaign.
Yeah, just spending all that money on our four-year consideration campaign.
I think... Is that it?
Yeah, I'm gonna go see Fast 6 right now.
I might join you, Evan. I might join you.
We should see if Neal will come.
And do a commentary for us.
So I guess that's the end of the commentary.
- Okay, see you guys. Thank you. - Live strong.