You offend me, you offend my family!!!
I saw Justin Lin and the stars of his new comedy, Finishing the Game, at a CAAM event last night. It's hilarious and smart and opens in San Francisco on Friday. Learn more at -- get this -- www.youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com. Justin said a few interesting things:
- They achieved the vintage look of Finishing the Game the old-fashioned way. They actually went out and rented old cameras, the kind he hated having to use in film school because they were all the department had.
- The opening-weekend success of Better Luck Tomorrow in 2003, which was promoted as critical to the viability of Asian-American films, had an immediate impact. Right after leaving a theater where BLT had sold out, Lin got a call from the makers of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, who said they were greenlighting that film because of the success of BLT.
- Parry Shen was considered for the role of Harold before John Cho got the part.
- The cars in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift had to be scrapped after the film because they had been modified for right-hand drive and weren't street legal in, apparently, either Japan or the U.S.
I also chatted with Sung Kang, who is as easygoing in person as he is intense on screen. He said his Tokyo Drift character was written as a smoker but he didn't want to smoke and thought it would be a bad influence on young viewers and generally unoriginal. So he snacked instead.
Dustin Nguyen (yes, of "21 Jump Street") and Roger Fan were also there. Now that Roger's cut his Breck Girl hair, he actually looks as hot as everyone always said he did. No, I didn't bring a camera.
- They achieved the vintage look of Finishing the Game the old-fashioned way. They actually went out and rented old cameras, the kind he hated having to use in film school because they were all the department had.
- The opening-weekend success of Better Luck Tomorrow in 2003, which was promoted as critical to the viability of Asian-American films, had an immediate impact. Right after leaving a theater where BLT had sold out, Lin got a call from the makers of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, who said they were greenlighting that film because of the success of BLT.
- Parry Shen was considered for the role of Harold before John Cho got the part.
- The cars in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift had to be scrapped after the film because they had been modified for right-hand drive and weren't street legal in, apparently, either Japan or the U.S.
I also chatted with Sung Kang, who is as easygoing in person as he is intense on screen. He said his Tokyo Drift character was written as a smoker but he didn't want to smoke and thought it would be a bad influence on young viewers and generally unoriginal. So he snacked instead.
Dustin Nguyen (yes, of "21 Jump Street") and Roger Fan were also there. Now that Roger's cut his Breck Girl hair, he actually looks as hot as everyone always said he did. No, I didn't bring a camera.
posted by Steve at
9:45 PM
1 Comments:
Dustin Nguyen - always was cute - you didn't bring a camera so I could see the new look? sll
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