Knocked up sequel1/10/2024 I like characters in certain movies and I wish they had their own, stand-alone movies. He tells the story of how he came up with the idea: “I wish more people made movies like this. This isn’t the first time Apatow has made a spin-off movie (his last was Get Him to the Greek off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Hit the jump for more highlights from Film Comment’s Apatow interview. They’re a fabricated, exaggerated version of Leslie and myself at two different ages.” They were always meant to be the future for them, and in a lot of ways in Knocked Up, Ben and Allison and Pete and Debbie are meant to be the same couple. But when I was conceiving the movie, my interest wasn’t in what happened to Ben and Allison, because Pete and Debbie in a way are Ben and Allison. I shot a version where Pete talks about how Ben and Allison live in Atlanta where she works for CNN. Apatow explains: “I shot some stuff, in case the audience demanded to know. Rudd, Mann, and the kids play the same characters, and Jason Segel and Charlyne Yi also reprise their roles from Knocked Up, but they don’t make any references to their relationships with Rudd and Mann’s characters and there’s only one quick line referring to Knocked Up. Apatow explains in the interview, though, that the new movie contains no references to the previous one. The decisions was largely based on the fact that Apatow thought Loudon Wainright III’s song Daughter fit so well into the scene.Judd Apatow gave a nice long interview to Film Comment today in advance of his new movie This is 40, which is being billed as a “sort of sequel” to Knocked Up, following Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters Pete and Debbie. The gender of the baby wasn’t decided until the editing room, with reactions for both a boy and a girl shot. The speech about Munich getting Jews laid was all improvised and Steven Spielberg, director of Munich, saw the film and told Apatow how much he enjoyed that interpretation of his film. The word ‘f*ck’, or versions thereof, is used 120 times throughout the movie.Īll the conversations had by Pete and Debbie’s daughters, played by Apatow’s actual children, were unscripted. Kim Basinger, Debra Winger and Frances Fisher were offered the role of Alison’s mother but they all turned it down. The film was originally intended to be a semi-sequel to The 40-Year-Old Virgin, with Seth Rogen reprising his character from that movie.īill Hader was in line to play one of Ben’s friends but he was deemed to be too much older than the rest of the group. Apatow broke the deal, so Jason Segel appears naked instead.ĭuring said rollercoaster ride Baruchel had a panic attack and all of the actors threw up because they were made to ride repeatedly. Jay Baruchel made a deal with Judd Apatow that he would appear naked in the earthquake scene as long as he didn’t have to ride the rollercoaster in the earlier scene, because he has a huge fear of rollercoasters. Portugal took a different tack with Very Bad Luck. In Russia it was A Little Bit Pregnant, in Brazil Slightly Pregnant and in Italy Very Pregnant. All the encounters with doctors are based on actual events.Īs Knocked Up is a peculiarly English expression, the title was changed internationally. The film is largely based on the experience had by Judd Apatow and his wife Leslie Mann during the birth of their first daughter. Before becoming an actor he was actually a doctor. Ken Jeong makes his movie debut in Knocked Up, playing a doctor. A permit could not be obtained until after the child was born, making it impossible. Prints of the film were sent to cinemas with the title Boneyard.Īpatow’s original plan to use footage of a real birth was nixed when he was told that the child would require a working permit before they could film it. So how much do you know about Knocked Up? We're prepared to bet everything* that you didn't know every fact on this list.Īnne Hathaway was originally cast in the film as Alison (Katherine Heigl) but dropped out as she didn’t like the idea of a real birth footage being used when the baby was born. It's a rom-com that just about everybody loves. It was the film that secured Judd Apatow's position as one of the most important comedy directors of modern times and made stars of Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl.
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