I think most people are in agreement that the BEST part comes at the very end... maybe a bit beyond the end...
While I was waiting to get a haircut at FLOYDS on Melrose last week, I found a cool little article in LA WEEKLY about how THE HANGOVER got made>>
How The Hangover Got Made
Hollywood's comedy hit has a messy back story
By Nikki Finke
Published on June 10, 2009 at 9:28pm
If you listen to Warner Bros.’ version of the back story behind The Hangover, this weekend’s No. 1 film and the third-highest R-rated comedy opening ever, it sounds so very simple, like a class in Hit Moviemaking 101. And, I’m assured, the total pay of all three lead actors doesn’t even add up to the perk package Will Ferrell had on Land of The Lost. So The Hangover spec script is penned by the screenwriting team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and gets to director Todd Phillips, who reads the screenplay, loves it and has a deal at the studio. BenderSpink’s Chris Bender then approaches Warner Bros. SVP of production, Greg Silverman, with the script and director already in place. Jeff Robinov, who has been/is a fan of Phillips, makes the deal. “It was one of those things that simply came together — a script, a director, and all the ducks were in a row,” a WB source tells me.
Oh, really? Well....http://www.laweekly.com/2009-06-11/news/how-the-hangover-got-made/
.... Meanwhile, Warner Bros. studio chairman Alan Horn is still trying to claim to the Los Angeles Times that all the credit for this movie goes to his studio, and to his little-liked No. 2, Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov. “It was Jeff and his troops who got Todd Phillips involved [no, that was CAA], allowed the movie to be R-rated [it was always R-rated], and let Todd make the movie he wanted to make [because Robinov can’t do comedy to save his life, and at best, it was exec Greg Silverman]. He clearly knew what he was doing.” Statements like this prove the old adage: You always know a mogul’s lying because his lips are moving.
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