September 18, 2024 • 28 mins
The BUZZ recently had the pleasure of chatting with two guests promoting their latest films. First up was RJ Collins, who directed the movie, "Crescent City." The film stars Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin, and it follows the story of a string of serial killer murders.
While the police are trying to uncover who is responsible, it becomes a much bigger game when they start to realize that they cannot trust their own. Collins spoke with us about how long it took the movie to see the light of day. He also spoke about the actors in the film and the scene that wowed him when he saw it portrayed.
Next up is actor Simon Phillips, who starred in the movie, "The Mouse Trap." The film shows a group of young adults trying to survive a killer in an arcade. The killer itself is someone wearing a Mickey Mouse head.
We spoke with the Irish actor about the premise of the film, including how fans took to social media and expressed their upset regarding Mickey Mouse being a killer. We also talked about the movie's dark comedy aspect. It was recently announced that "The Mouse Trap" is expected to have a sequel.
Both "Crescent City" and "The Mouse Trap" are available on Video on Demand (VOD).
While the police are trying to uncover who is responsible, it becomes a much bigger game when they start to realize that they cannot trust their own. Collins spoke with us about how long it took the movie to see the light of day. He also spoke about the actors in the film and the scene that wowed him when he saw it portrayed.
Next up is actor Simon Phillips, who starred in the movie, "The Mouse Trap." The film shows a group of young adults trying to survive a killer in an arcade. The killer itself is someone wearing a Mickey Mouse head.
We spoke with the Irish actor about the premise of the film, including how fans took to social media and expressed their upset regarding Mickey Mouse being a killer. We also talked about the movie's dark comedy aspect. It was recently announced that "The Mouse Trap" is expected to have a sequel.
Both "Crescent City" and "The Mouse Trap" are available on Video on Demand (VOD).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
That gets you up close and personal with some of
the hottest stars. Now here's your host, Novelle jay Lee.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What's going on everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's Novelle jay Lee and welcome into a new edition
of the Buzz at Buzzworthy Radio. I have a double
feature for you today. We got two guests. First up,
we have director r J. Collins of the film Crescent City,
which starred Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin. It is a
crime thriller and I thought it was very interesting how
the dynamic of the serial killer that was played off
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in this movie, just the motive behind it was very
It was definitely different than what I was used to.
So we got to talk a little bit about that
with RJ. Plus the casting of the film, et cetera,
and then getting into it with Simon Phillips who stars
in the film The mouse Trap. We're gonna talk a
(00:57):
little bit more about that. I'll I'll go into that
deeper before we bring Simon on, but in the meantime,
check out our interview. First up with RJ.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Collins.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, guys, I am sitting here with RJ. Collins, and
we are about to talk about Crescent City, and I'll
just start off.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
By saying, what a mind fuck this movie was. Well,
first of all, how are you?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
But I mean thank you? Yeah, And even I think
the same thing. Even in editing, I'm like, wow, we
really just did this. Yeah, thank you? Though, No, everything's good. Yeah,
very excited. You know it's come out August sixteenth, and
it's a labor of love.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And you know, it was a long time coming.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The script was created before COVID even hit, and that
slowed us down, but we got very lucky that we
had the timing to make it when we did.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I was going to ask that as being one of
my questions is to how long did it take for
this to get from the pen to paper.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
To the screen. And you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Excuse me for how so many of these movies that
I've recently chatted about within the recent weeks, a lot
of them have been done prior to the shutdown, and
we're now getting to see these these thought provoking movies
just come right into the limelight right now. And I
think it's great. But to my introductory point of it
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being a mind fuck, for sure, I mean, just just
getting into it. I'll say this, I had suspicions on
how it was going to end, but I was not
going in the level of how it ended. I will
say that I thought it was going this way, and
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I was right on part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
But I was not correct on the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I would say kudos to the writing and kudos
to the actors performance for that. I'll definitely give the
credit where that's due. So this movie, I'll give you
the history of it to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
With your question too.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Is you know the script was created in twenty nineteen
after research was done on a bunch of different serial
killers that was all public domain information and it was
so fascinating and disturbing, and the.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Script was written.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It was phenomenal, and you know, during COVID there was
rewrites and things that happened which were nice. So we
had time to kind of get the story in place,
and then we last year, right before summertime, we really
started to push it forward. And luckily the producers that
we have on this team, which are phenomenal. Edward Osipov
actually knew he had done a film with Terrence Howard before,
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and he was like, look, I want to let me
send this to Terrence. See what he said. Terrence called
him and said, I love it, man, and it was
like that was like the beginning of it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I was like.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yes when we got that word, like we knew Terence
in perfect he's also an actor magnet, right, Everybody's like
he's so phenomenal that people were like yes, yes, yes.
It really helped it out and we were so excited
because Terrence, you know, playing detective Brian Sutter, he's essentially
the lead of.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The movie with easy character Lou Carson.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And they're a detective team in the story and the
man they had such a great collaboration these.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Guys, I have to agree, because just the star power
that was attached to this film already was piquing my interest.
But then once you really get into once you really
get into the the in depth of this movie and
how how far was going to go with taking it,
and it was just absolutely enthralling.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I couldn't stop watching it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It really was, as I said a few moments ago,
thought provoking because you really are trying to figure out
what is happening, and then you thought you had, but
then you really didn't figure it out and that was
just one of the best aspects of this movie.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I love those type of psychological thrillers.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Thank you, and you know that's kudos the writer because
rich Runnet he told me when he was writing it,
he's like, look, man, I haven't even chose the killer
is going to be yet. He literally didn't decide that
until the end himself.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Really it was great.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, that's why that's why it worked so well. He
told me, he's like, I'm literally not going to choose
it till the end, and he figured out who he
wanted to make, so we kept it very gender open everything.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You just don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean, you think the point was we kind of
guide you into directions where you think it's that person.
It's like it's almost captain obvious at first, right, and
then you're like, well it's not what, and then it's this,
and then oh and it just it just it takes
you on a ride, like you said, And that's that
was the goal on this movie, is to is to
bring an audience through a ride and make them question
it till the end so you can hook them from
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the beginning Dan to watch it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's really what it was and just I, like you said,
I was very surprised that the notion now that till
the end really didn't have any And I really liked
that facet of it is because, as you just said,
we're watching it and we're going like, it could be anybody.
It could have been anybody in this and that's how
it was played off. It was so it was so
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open ended that you really could have said, oh, yeah,
it was this person. Oh no, it was this person.
It was actually this person. So I love the fact that,
of course with the movie itself so setting it up,
there was a string of murders going into the film. Guys,
there's a string of murders that happened in this town
and it's up to the detectives to figure it out.
They bring in an IA agent it. But the premise
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of it is is that can you really trust those
on the police team to crack this down? So that
that's the main theme of this film. But it's like
when you get into it, I just love how it's
playing every opposite side of the spectrum. And I think
that's why it was so enthralling for me. So I
definitely want to say that, And like I said, the
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star power also was a big was a big thing
for this. Getting this now premiered on the sixteenth of
which is next week. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
this next week.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ill. I guess it's flying by guys.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But now getting the chance to have this premiere, having
people getting the opportunity to see it, says, this has
been five years of the making pretty much five years.
What does that say to you now that we are
having the chance to promote this and having everybody see,
as you said, a labor of love of this film.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a dream come true, you know,
because you put so much time in and work on
these things, and to see it come to life, and
now with Lionsgate supporting it and coming on the big
screen too, and select theaters and you know, VOD everywhere here,
it's just it's just, you know, it just kind of
it just has that great feeling of accomplishment in a way,
because there's so many reasons why these movies don't happen,
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and so many things that get in the way of
why they don't happen, the internal side of Hollywood that
you just don't know. So it was great that the
collaboration of everybody made this thing happen. And and we're
we're very blessed at Lionsgate support of this film and
came in and took over for us as our distributor.
So yeah, I mean, look and and to be to
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be honest the story itself. For me, what I love
about it is it's that kind of humanity of good
versus evil and in this small little town. In the opening,
you see the church scene and you know, the audience
is very small in the chapels, and I want we
did that on purpose to kind of show that this
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even the small town is kind of losing faith right
now because of what's going on, and so it's scared
people to even come out. So that was kind of
a little hidden thing we did. And then it's a
Satanic church as battling against the Catholic Church in this film. Yeah,
and it's in real life, it's like more people are
kind of battling science more than religion. And you know,
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so it was just a lot about faith and decisions
of you know, every day you have a choice, right
what you can do as a person. You can do
the right thing of the wrong thing right, and you
make mistakes and so every single character in this film
has a deem they're dealing with, and so there's all
these different little subplot stories all the way through. So
it's just a great emotional right, And that's what I
liked about this film when we read it originally, and
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I'm glad I portrayed that. And I hope the audiences
enjoy as much as you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Dude completely agree, especially with the subplot parts of it,
so you will, so fans, you will get to see
that as well. So there's you think it's running on
just this a storyline, but there's also other secondary storylines
that are happening in this We are running close to
time as well. So I do have one question I
want to ask you, but what without getting too much way,
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was there any particular moment on with the shooting of
this that really stood out for you where you kind
of went and just looked at it and went, holy shit,
this was amazing, Like you knew, like right away that
was the moment where you're like, this is it guys?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You know it's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, there's there's a few of those moments because like
the caliber of cast, you know, with Alec and e
Sign Terrence and Nikki and Michael Sarah and many more
of them. There was just these moments where you're just like, Wow,
this cast together is just phenomenal. But there is a
scene where, in exactly what I was talking about with
the Church, there's a scene where Detective Brian Sutter, Terrence's
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character is sitting in the chapel and he's really questioning
his faith yes, and he's asking the question in his
head and the janitor comes through and talks to him,
and it was such a powerful scene.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
It gave me chills.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
We ended up spending another hour on that scene and
coverage because even I looked at the dp's like, trust me,
we got to get this show on the shot, and
we really covered it and it was I mean, you'll
see it. It's just this open chapel, beautiful scene and
it's just a powerful performance by Terrence.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It just like Terrence is. There's a reason why he's
an OSCAR nominated actor.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Absolutely, and I will agree with that scene as well
that pointed out, So not giving too much away, but
I will say that was a powerful scene and I
hope hopefully you guys get the chance to see it
as well when it premiere is on August sixteenth, Crescent City.
Everybody r J Collins real quick, it was. It was
amazing to talk to you. It flew by' Let's do
it again, for.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Sure, Let's do it. Yeah. I appreciate it any time.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Absolutely, Thank you so much. We have Simon Phillips, who
started in the film The mouse Trap. Okay, so I'm
sure many people may have been aware of what The
Mousetrap is about, but in case that you are not,
it basically stems from a serial killer in a Mickey
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Mouse costume terrorizing people in an amusement park setting. And
while this somewhat stems from the Steamboat Willie cartoon, I mean,
I will say this. I don't want to get too
much away, but the clip in Steamboat Willi is used
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in the film. Just fyi, and the fact that it
got so much black on social media. I still had
to watch it because I was so intrigued about basically
seeing somebody in a a Mickey Mouse head terrorizing people.
And I got some news about this as well at
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the end, so stay tuned for that. But first watch
the interview with Simon and hear what I had to
say about it. Check it out listen, I am sitting
here with mister Simon Phillips. How are you, sir?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Good morning about how are you.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm well, doing great, and we're here to talk about
the mouse Trap. And I'm just gonna come right out
and say that the first thing about this movie that
hooked me.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Was the disclaimer of the film.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That was literally I literally watched it and the first
thing I said was, Okay, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
That it's very cool. You know. All credit goes to
director Jamie Bailey there, who came up with that. You know,
we just the lawyer told us, hey, you need to
have a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie, like
people need to know it's not Disney. And we're like,
I think they're gonna know's it's not Disney, and then
to say it like okay, and then Jamie Bailey went
away and wrote that thing and put it in that
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By the way, we're calling that generic space crawl. That's
what that's called with generic space music, because we don't
need to be in any more trouble with Disney than
we already are. So anyway, he came in and the
first time I saw it, I didn't even know he's
doing that. I saw it, I laughed my ass off,
and I thought, this is this is a great way
to start the movie because it's like, absolutely we should
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do this.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, oh, I completely maybe laugh for like the entire
time of that disclaimer. I said, this is pretty not
only ballsy, but this was amazing. And just just to
throw this out there, this is not really a spoiler, guys,
but I'm just gonna let you know that this disclaimer literally,
as we just said, not affiliated with Disney in any
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way with this film, but it repeats itself multiple times
in this role to let you all know we're affiliated
with Disney, but we love Disney. So just watching that
just completely on repeat was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
I'm I'm very happy that everyone enjoyed it. And again,
credit heads off to jam Belly because he number one.
He came up with it. I thought he was in
it because he was like, what's it gonna say? And
I was like, oh, there's some legal you know, I
don't know to say, yeah, all the boring, So I was,
you know, I think they wanted to be like that.
And the lawyer. We showed it back to the lawyer
and he was like, Okay, yeah, he was like. I
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was like, well, it says what you wanted to say, right,
and he gets he does, Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It does, but not really what I expected.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Well, the lawyer is mad because he obviously laughed at
it too, you know, so he's mad that we made
him laugh. And I noticed that's probably what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You're probably right, You're probably right, but this speaking of laughing,
I I'm a big fan of Dark Huber and this
film definitely has that. And I mean it was just
there was just parts of this where I'm just sitting
here looking listening to it, and I'm going, so, you're
(15:07):
scared of this, of this thing in a Mickey mouse Head,
So let's let's let's let's give this to everybody.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
So this movie.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Basically is about these these I don't know if we
call them teens, but I think they're legal age. So
young adults will say that young adults in this arcade
arcade room trying to escape a killer who is in.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
A Mickey mouse Head.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And literally, I'm sitting here going, so, you're afraid of
this guy killing people in a Mickey mouse Head, but
yet you're more worried about this girl who most of
these guys want to date.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
So what exactly is your fixation here? I think what
I what I imagine for this. Let me start off at
the beginning, right, what I imagine was is that we
were making a nineties number one mate, We're making a
pretty ridiculous idea before.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I'm glad that Jamie Bailey went along with this idea,
but it was a pretty ridiculous idea. We had a
ridiculous time making it, you know. So that's that's the
first thing. These young adults, as you say, I kind
of had this feeling about like everybody's very distracted these days.
You know, there's all this bit of like nobody can
pay attention to anything for too long. We've all, you know,
sort of we're all we all seem to suffer from
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not being able to hold focus. So in the midst
of I like to add the comedy in this that
in the midst of these life threatening scenarios, that someone's
still concerned about a date going on, you know, like
you know, that's sort of because it seems like the
sort of distracted behavior number one that gets teams killed,
you know, sort of in old horror movies, it used
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to be like, you know, somebody were trying to escape
by running upstairs, and you're like, well, don't run upstairs.
You know that's you're going to be. You're locked in upstairs.
Now the killer can just go up the stairs and
find you. But nowadays, I feel like, what's going to
get you know, young adults killed is going to be
this sort of distracted behavior game. Yeah you know, I'm
running away from this guy. But is there a gluten
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free option on the you know, so you know they're
gonna get You're like, don't worry about that right now. Yeah,
this guy, this guy is doing me, but you know
what you also did. He also offended me, and I'm
kind of triggered now and it's like, well, don't worry
about that because you'll be dead and it won't you know,
that doesn't matter, you know. I actually, I actually have
a line. I had a girl say, one of the
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girls in the movie say I'm too pretty for this
to happen to me. Yeah, so you know, like she.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Did, and I'm literally going, well, yeah, but also, you're
about to die, but I'm glad you're worried about how
pretty you are.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And that's what it is, is misplaced, misplaced emotion and
misplaced worry. That's definitely what's going to get all young
people killed in this scenario.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I love that it had mimics of that, like literally
certain points of it where you're you're watching it and
I'm going, oh my gosh, this literally calls out to
this This literally calls out to this film or like
there was just like little nuggets and that m me
think of like as we just said, those horror movies
in there, and I'm going, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
My god, I love that it's playing up to this.
So it was.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It was Listen, I will never watch Steamboat Willie the
same way again because of this movie. Never watched that
cartoon in the same way again. But it was good.
It was definitely. It definitely had me just watching it,
and I was just mesmerized at the fact that these
young adults were just not really worrying about dying.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So good for them.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Good for them that they don't worry about those they
just their mortality.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I mean, listen, I mean we had the beginning of
the film week I'll say this for you guys, not
to get too much away, but at least in the
beginning of the film, you can kind of tell that
these young adults are distracted, particularly the one who basically
is just working and on her phone and really does
not care.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Yeah, well that that to me is that I got
rid of that character quite quickly when we were writing
the story, but I wanted to show that she exists.
You know, It's like there is I mean, we all
know that person who was just like, you know, you
invite it doesn't matter if they're at work or you
invite them to the pub or they there's that person.
They annoy me intently, which is why what happens to
her happens same same.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So literally, I probably now can say this. I did
not feel bad when that happened because of that. So
I appreciate you saying that to me because now I
feel better about myself.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
No, unfortunately, mate, there's a very large portion of the audience.
I go, who are going to recognize that character? Like
for somebody that they know? And go, yeah, I mean, well, you.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Know, how long is this? Like when did the concept
even come about? For the for the mousetrap? How did
it start? When did it start? I should say, and.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
How did it start? So I'm sure you I don't
know if you saw a blood and honey which is
like a Winnie the Pooh horror movie that I did.
I did great idea, probably maybe not a great movie,
but it's certainly a great idea. So when last year
when I saw that movie, I also at the same
time heard that in the future in twenty twenty four,
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Mickey Mouse was coming into or rather the steamboat Willies
Mickey Mouse was coming into public domain. I had this
crazy idea. I was like, oh, well, I am, We're
just going to do what they did because that was
a great idea. I was like, but we're going to
do it for Mickey And then loads of people were like,
you can't. You won't be able to do it for
Mickey Mouse. And I was like, why not, and they're like,
(20:33):
it's not this Winnie the Pooh was based on a book.
It wasn't really a Disney character. Remember, it's a book.
So but whereas Mickey Mouse is owned by what you know,
it's created and they've got you know, trade markets everything,
and they're like, you won't be able to do that,
and I was like, I'm pretty sure once it goes
into public domain, I think that's exactly what that's for. Actually,
you know sort of and you know, but lots of
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people were gutless and they didn't want to they didn't
want to get involved. But I find a few brave
people that would, you know, sort of, So I.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Think it was more nat I think even it was
more because I heard that about people's uh, mis not misconceptions.
It was more or less their grievances about using Mickey
Mouse in this kind of fashion. I heard that, but
I was also going, I think it's more not because
it went into the public domain. I think it was
more like, you can't do this to making Mouse because
there's Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Like, oh yeah, I mean, there's there's those those type
of comments, but there are people that say that about
the Winnie the Poo thing, how dare you do this
to Winny? But you know, like and you're like, yeah,
you know, to be honest, remember number one, we love Disney.
I have Disney plus, you know, so I watch everything
they make. Disney at the heart of their principles, you know,
they're about fun and creativity and playing. That's exactly what
(21:44):
we're doing with this movie. You know, creative, we're having
fun and we're playing. So I mean, we're not that
far from Disney. But you know, our version of playing
as adults is to turn something you know that was
once a friendly symbol as a child into something scary,
because you know, when adults play, we watch horror movies
because we don't have We don't watch cartoons, you know,
(22:05):
in general, we don't we're not consumers of cartoons. But
if we want to have fun, we watch a horror movie.
That's our escapism and stuff like that. So this is
like making clowns scary or something, and plenty of movies
have done that, you know, sort of it's like what
clowns are like a young childhood's icon, and when you're young,
clowns are very you know, friendly and you know, funny
and stuff like that, and then later they become they
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can become something scary, and that's you know, this is
no different to that at all. Yeah, it's just the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It just fillows in the same scope.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
It's just like we said, it's just you know, if
we can even use this as an example, if somebody
were to do something of this vein for bugs Buddy,
and people will be like, you can't.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Do that for bugs Bunny, I was like, well this
is different.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Bugs Buddy actually did that in his cartoons, so it's
not that far fetched. That's a little different on that scope.
I can you know Mickey Moles. Probably they're going like, well,
he's not violent, he's never he's nine, he has the laugh,
he has like no that. As you just said, this
is an escapism.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
So this is people need people need to stop worrying
about it so much. Is this is everything that's wrong
with the world. There's people worry too much about Well,
you can't do that, and you're like, I mean, you know,
I feel like at one point where the people that
went to the Moon, I was like, of course, you know, yes,
you can, you can do that. I was like, your
question is whether or not you should do that. But
that's you know, that's a little difference.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
One of the sense. We do have to wrap up
here in a couple of minutes. So one of my
final questions for this is when you were we talked
about how you guys went into this gun's blazing, gutsy,
you went, you went really all out. But was there
any point when this was being written, when this was
being shot anything like this. Was there at any point
(23:48):
any of you that was working on this went oh shit,
we can't do this this is way too out there.
But then it sounds like nothing was too out there.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
No, I think once we started, once I put the
mask on and we started, you know, and we have
Mickey Mouse, you know, sort of a knife in his
hand killing people. No, there wasn't really any point of thing.
And the rest of the world only became concerned about
it when we dropped the trailer in January and then
it like exploded on the internet one day. Twenty six
(24:20):
million people saw it in a single day. It was yeah,
and that wasn't a testament to us. That was a
testament to how powerful Mickey Mouse is, you know. So
it was like you remember that like Winnie the Pooh
doesn't travel everywhere, like he's probably not known in you know,
Italy or Africa or you know, but Mickey Mouse was
(24:41):
known everywhere. We were getting calls from like everywhere, you know,
like everywhere in the planet wanted the Mickey Mouse movie
because they you know, that's how much of a global
icon the cartoon character was, you know. So you know
that that's a testament to its popularity. But nobody was
the rest of the world got concerned when we dropped
the trailer. You know, about like, oh, you know, I
don't like this, but I will tell you now that
(25:03):
everywhere I wanted it. So there's always that morbid curiosity,
isn't that all the guy I'm not sure if you
should have done this. I was like, would you want
to see it or not? And they're like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There it is.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
That's that's cooled consumer appetites.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Can have your cake and eat it too kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
But yeah, exactly that.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, but I actually had fun watching it. This was better.
This was better than Blowing Honey for sure. So I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I shouldn't. I shouldn't slag those guys off, but it was.
My god, that was a terrible movie. But it was
a good idea.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
It was a good idea, it was the concept was good,
but but the execution was not. But this one really did.
Like I said, it had the dark humor and it
had you know, you were able to play up to
the history of the cartoon character plus everything else that
happens in the movie. So I was definitely entertained by it,
and hopefully everybody else was to. I mean, everybody wanted
to see the trailer. You got to watch the whole thing.
(25:57):
It is definitely it. I The last thing I'll this
with is it's going to leave you saying what the
fuck at the end.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's all I will say.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Wait, that might be the quote of the movie for me.
I was like, you know, when people go, what do
you want people to take away at the movie, I'm
gonna say right this this interview Novelle told me he
goes at the end of the movie, you're just gonna
be looking at yourself in the mirror, you know, looking
at what's left to the credits, going what the fuck?
And I'm like, that's brilliant. That's exactly the That's the
only thing I now want people to have as a
(26:27):
as an aftermath feeling.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Well, you're welcome for me bringing that to you, because
exactly what I said, Mate, when you hear me saying
that again, I'm saying I've got that from you.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't worry. I'll credit for you. I was like,
that's perfect, that's the perfect reaction.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Well, there it is, guys. I can't say I can't
end on a better note than that, Simon. It was
a pleasure you're talking with you, and I love to
have you back.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Great, Thank you Novelle for having me. I think I
speak for us both when I say the fuck.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
What the fuck? You? Thank so much appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I want to thank both of my guests RJ. Collins
and Simon Phillips. You can actually watch both of these films,
Cress City and The Mousetrap video on demand at your leisure.
And the news I wanted to mention is The Mousetrap
is getting a sequel, so it was announced a few
weeks ago that they will be back for another one.
(27:22):
So shout out to you Simon and making this happen again.
I can't wait to see the second installment of this film,
so major, major kudos to you, and thank you guys
for tuning in into this one.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I had so much fun.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Talking with these guys and hopefully you guys did too.
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That gets you up close and personal with some of
the hottest stars. Now here's your host, Novelle jay Lee.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What's going on everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's Novelle jay Lee and welcome into a new edition
of the Buzz at Buzzworthy Radio. I have a double
feature for you today. We got two guests. First up,
we have director r J. Collins of the film Crescent City,
which starred Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin. It is a
crime thriller and I thought it was very interesting how
the dynamic of the serial killer that was played off
(00:36):
in this movie, just the motive behind it was very
It was definitely different than what I was used to.
So we got to talk a little bit about that
with RJ. Plus the casting of the film, et cetera,
and then getting into it with Simon Phillips who stars
in the film The mouse Trap. We're gonna talk a
(00:57):
little bit more about that. I'll I'll go into that
deeper before we bring Simon on, but in the meantime,
check out our interview. First up with RJ.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Collins.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, guys, I am sitting here with RJ. Collins, and
we are about to talk about Crescent City, and I'll
just start off.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
By saying, what a mind fuck this movie was. Well,
first of all, how are you?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
But I mean thank you? Yeah, And even I think
the same thing. Even in editing, I'm like, wow, we
really just did this. Yeah, thank you? Though, No, everything's good. Yeah,
very excited. You know it's come out August sixteenth, and
it's a labor of love.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And you know, it was a long time coming.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The script was created before COVID even hit, and that
slowed us down, but we got very lucky that we
had the timing to make it when we did.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I was going to ask that as being one of
my questions is to how long did it take for
this to get from the pen to paper.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
To the screen. And you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Excuse me for how so many of these movies that
I've recently chatted about within the recent weeks, a lot
of them have been done prior to the shutdown, and
we're now getting to see these these thought provoking movies
just come right into the limelight right now. And I
think it's great. But to my introductory point of it
(02:21):
being a mind fuck, for sure, I mean, just just
getting into it. I'll say this, I had suspicions on
how it was going to end, but I was not
going in the level of how it ended. I will
say that I thought it was going this way, and
(02:41):
I was right on part of it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
But I was not correct on the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I would say kudos to the writing and kudos
to the actors performance for that. I'll definitely give the
credit where that's due. So this movie, I'll give you
the history of it to help you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
With your question too.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Is you know the script was created in twenty nineteen
after research was done on a bunch of different serial
killers that was all public domain information and it was
so fascinating and disturbing, and the.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Script was written.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It was phenomenal, and you know, during COVID there was
rewrites and things that happened which were nice. So we
had time to kind of get the story in place,
and then we last year, right before summertime, we really
started to push it forward. And luckily the producers that
we have on this team, which are phenomenal. Edward Osipov
actually knew he had done a film with Terrence Howard before,
(03:34):
and he was like, look, I want to let me
send this to Terrence. See what he said. Terrence called
him and said, I love it, man, and it was
like that was like the beginning of it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I was like.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yes when we got that word, like we knew Terence
in perfect he's also an actor magnet, right, Everybody's like
he's so phenomenal that people were like yes, yes, yes.
It really helped it out and we were so excited
because Terrence, you know, playing detective Brian Sutter, he's essentially
the lead of.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The movie with easy character Lou Carson.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And they're a detective team in the story and the
man they had such a great collaboration these.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Guys, I have to agree, because just the star power
that was attached to this film already was piquing my interest.
But then once you really get into once you really
get into the the in depth of this movie and
how how far was going to go with taking it,
and it was just absolutely enthralling.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I couldn't stop watching it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It really was, as I said a few moments ago,
thought provoking because you really are trying to figure out
what is happening, and then you thought you had, but
then you really didn't figure it out and that was
just one of the best aspects of this movie.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I love those type of psychological thrillers.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Thank you, and you know that's kudos the writer because
rich Runnet he told me when he was writing it,
he's like, look, man, I haven't even chose the killer
is going to be yet. He literally didn't decide that
until the end himself.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Really it was great.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, that's why that's why it worked so well. He
told me, he's like, I'm literally not going to choose
it till the end, and he figured out who he
wanted to make, so we kept it very gender open everything.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You just don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean, you think the point was we kind of
guide you into directions where you think it's that person.
It's like it's almost captain obvious at first, right, and
then you're like, well it's not what, and then it's this,
and then oh and it just it just it takes
you on a ride, like you said, And that's that
was the goal on this movie, is to is to
bring an audience through a ride and make them question
it till the end so you can hook them from
(05:30):
the beginning Dan to watch it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's really what it was and just I, like you said,
I was very surprised that the notion now that till
the end really didn't have any And I really liked
that facet of it is because, as you just said,
we're watching it and we're going like, it could be anybody.
It could have been anybody in this and that's how
it was played off. It was so it was so
(05:54):
open ended that you really could have said, oh, yeah,
it was this person. Oh no, it was this person.
It was actually this person. So I love the fact that,
of course with the movie itself so setting it up,
there was a string of murders going into the film. Guys,
there's a string of murders that happened in this town
and it's up to the detectives to figure it out.
They bring in an IA agent it. But the premise
(06:16):
of it is is that can you really trust those
on the police team to crack this down? So that
that's the main theme of this film. But it's like
when you get into it, I just love how it's
playing every opposite side of the spectrum. And I think
that's why it was so enthralling for me. So I
definitely want to say that, And like I said, the
(06:39):
star power also was a big was a big thing
for this. Getting this now premiered on the sixteenth of
which is next week. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
this next week.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ill. I guess it's flying by guys.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But now getting the chance to have this premiere, having
people getting the opportunity to see it, says, this has
been five years of the making pretty much five years.
What does that say to you now that we are
having the chance to promote this and having everybody see,
as you said, a labor of love of this film.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a dream come true, you know,
because you put so much time in and work on
these things, and to see it come to life, and
now with Lionsgate supporting it and coming on the big
screen too, and select theaters and you know, VOD everywhere here,
it's just it's just, you know, it just kind of
it just has that great feeling of accomplishment in a way,
because there's so many reasons why these movies don't happen,
(07:36):
and so many things that get in the way of
why they don't happen, the internal side of Hollywood that
you just don't know. So it was great that the
collaboration of everybody made this thing happen. And and we're
we're very blessed at Lionsgate support of this film and
came in and took over for us as our distributor.
So yeah, I mean, look and and to be to
(07:57):
be honest the story itself. For me, what I love
about it is it's that kind of humanity of good
versus evil and in this small little town. In the opening,
you see the church scene and you know, the audience
is very small in the chapels, and I want we
did that on purpose to kind of show that this
(08:17):
even the small town is kind of losing faith right
now because of what's going on, and so it's scared
people to even come out. So that was kind of
a little hidden thing we did. And then it's a
Satanic church as battling against the Catholic Church in this film. Yeah,
and it's in real life, it's like more people are
kind of battling science more than religion. And you know,
(08:38):
so it was just a lot about faith and decisions
of you know, every day you have a choice, right
what you can do as a person. You can do
the right thing of the wrong thing right, and you
make mistakes and so every single character in this film
has a deem they're dealing with, and so there's all
these different little subplot stories all the way through. So
it's just a great emotional right, And that's what I
liked about this film when we read it originally, and
(08:58):
I'm glad I portrayed that. And I hope the audiences
enjoy as much as you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Dude completely agree, especially with the subplot parts of it,
so you will, so fans, you will get to see
that as well. So there's you think it's running on
just this a storyline, but there's also other secondary storylines
that are happening in this We are running close to
time as well. So I do have one question I
want to ask you, but what without getting too much way,
(09:25):
was there any particular moment on with the shooting of
this that really stood out for you where you kind
of went and just looked at it and went, holy shit,
this was amazing, Like you knew, like right away that
was the moment where you're like, this is it guys?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You know it's funny.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, there's there's a few of those moments because like
the caliber of cast, you know, with Alec and e
Sign Terrence and Nikki and Michael Sarah and many more
of them. There was just these moments where you're just like, Wow,
this cast together is just phenomenal. But there is a
scene where, in exactly what I was talking about with
the Church, there's a scene where Detective Brian Sutter, Terrence's
(10:04):
character is sitting in the chapel and he's really questioning
his faith yes, and he's asking the question in his
head and the janitor comes through and talks to him,
and it was such a powerful scene.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
It gave me chills.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
We ended up spending another hour on that scene and
coverage because even I looked at the dp's like, trust me,
we got to get this show on the shot, and
we really covered it and it was I mean, you'll
see it. It's just this open chapel, beautiful scene and
it's just a powerful performance by Terrence.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It just like Terrence is. There's a reason why he's
an OSCAR nominated actor.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Absolutely, and I will agree with that scene as well
that pointed out, So not giving too much away, but
I will say that was a powerful scene and I
hope hopefully you guys get the chance to see it
as well when it premiere is on August sixteenth, Crescent City.
Everybody r J Collins real quick, it was. It was
amazing to talk to you. It flew by' Let's do
it again, for.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Sure, Let's do it. Yeah. I appreciate it any time.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Absolutely, Thank you so much. We have Simon Phillips, who
started in the film The mouse Trap. Okay, so I'm
sure many people may have been aware of what The
Mousetrap is about, but in case that you are not,
it basically stems from a serial killer in a Mickey
(11:24):
Mouse costume terrorizing people in an amusement park setting. And
while this somewhat stems from the Steamboat Willie cartoon, I mean,
I will say this. I don't want to get too
much away, but the clip in Steamboat Willi is used
(11:44):
in the film. Just fyi, and the fact that it
got so much black on social media. I still had
to watch it because I was so intrigued about basically
seeing somebody in a a Mickey Mouse head terrorizing people.
And I got some news about this as well at
(12:07):
the end, so stay tuned for that. But first watch
the interview with Simon and hear what I had to
say about it. Check it out listen, I am sitting
here with mister Simon Phillips. How are you, sir?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Good morning about how are you.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm well, doing great, and we're here to talk about
the mouse Trap. And I'm just gonna come right out
and say that the first thing about this movie that
hooked me.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Was the disclaimer of the film.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That was literally I literally watched it and the first
thing I said was, Okay, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
That it's very cool. You know. All credit goes to
director Jamie Bailey there, who came up with that. You know,
we just the lawyer told us, hey, you need to
have a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie, like
people need to know it's not Disney. And we're like,
I think they're gonna know's it's not Disney, and then
to say it like okay, and then Jamie Bailey went
away and wrote that thing and put it in that
(13:06):
By the way, we're calling that generic space crawl. That's
what that's called with generic space music, because we don't
need to be in any more trouble with Disney than
we already are. So anyway, he came in and the
first time I saw it, I didn't even know he's
doing that. I saw it, I laughed my ass off,
and I thought, this is this is a great way
to start the movie because it's like, absolutely we should
(13:28):
do this.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, oh, I completely maybe laugh for like the entire
time of that disclaimer. I said, this is pretty not
only ballsy, but this was amazing. And just just to
throw this out there, this is not really a spoiler, guys,
but I'm just gonna let you know that this disclaimer literally,
as we just said, not affiliated with Disney in any
(13:51):
way with this film, but it repeats itself multiple times
in this role to let you all know we're affiliated
with Disney, but we love Disney. So just watching that
just completely on repeat was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
I'm I'm very happy that everyone enjoyed it. And again,
credit heads off to jam Belly because he number one.
He came up with it. I thought he was in
it because he was like, what's it gonna say? And
I was like, oh, there's some legal you know, I
don't know to say, yeah, all the boring, So I was,
you know, I think they wanted to be like that.
And the lawyer. We showed it back to the lawyer
and he was like, Okay, yeah, he was like. I
(14:30):
was like, well, it says what you wanted to say, right,
and he gets he does, Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It does, but not really what I expected.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Well, the lawyer is mad because he obviously laughed at
it too, you know, so he's mad that we made
him laugh. And I noticed that's probably what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You're probably right, You're probably right, but this speaking of laughing,
I I'm a big fan of Dark Huber and this
film definitely has that. And I mean it was just
there was just parts of this where I'm just sitting
here looking listening to it, and I'm going, so, you're
(15:07):
scared of this, of this thing in a Mickey mouse Head,
So let's let's let's let's give this to everybody.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
So this movie.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Basically is about these these I don't know if we
call them teens, but I think they're legal age. So
young adults will say that young adults in this arcade
arcade room trying to escape a killer who is in.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
A Mickey mouse Head.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And literally, I'm sitting here going, so, you're afraid of
this guy killing people in a Mickey mouse Head, but
yet you're more worried about this girl who most of
these guys want to date.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
So what exactly is your fixation here? I think what
I what I imagine for this. Let me start off at
the beginning, right, what I imagine was is that we
were making a nineties number one mate, We're making a
pretty ridiculous idea before.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I'm glad that Jamie Bailey went along with this idea,
but it was a pretty ridiculous idea. We had a
ridiculous time making it, you know. So that's that's the
first thing. These young adults, as you say, I kind
of had this feeling about like everybody's very distracted these days.
You know, there's all this bit of like nobody can
pay attention to anything for too long. We've all, you know,
sort of we're all we all seem to suffer from
(16:21):
not being able to hold focus. So in the midst
of I like to add the comedy in this that
in the midst of these life threatening scenarios, that someone's
still concerned about a date going on, you know, like
you know, that's sort of because it seems like the
sort of distracted behavior number one that gets teams killed,
you know, sort of in old horror movies, it used
(16:42):
to be like, you know, somebody were trying to escape
by running upstairs, and you're like, well, don't run upstairs.
You know that's you're going to be. You're locked in upstairs.
Now the killer can just go up the stairs and
find you. But nowadays, I feel like, what's going to
get you know, young adults killed is going to be
this sort of distracted behavior game. Yeah you know, I'm
running away from this guy. But is there a gluten
(17:03):
free option on the you know, so you know they're
gonna get You're like, don't worry about that right now. Yeah,
this guy, this guy is doing me, but you know
what you also did. He also offended me, and I'm
kind of triggered now and it's like, well, don't worry
about that because you'll be dead and it won't you know,
that doesn't matter, you know. I actually, I actually have
a line. I had a girl say, one of the
(17:23):
girls in the movie say I'm too pretty for this
to happen to me. Yeah, so you know, like she.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Did, and I'm literally going, well, yeah, but also, you're
about to die, but I'm glad you're worried about how
pretty you are.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And that's what it is, is misplaced, misplaced emotion and
misplaced worry. That's definitely what's going to get all young
people killed in this scenario.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I love that it had mimics of that, like literally
certain points of it where you're you're watching it and
I'm going, oh my gosh, this literally calls out to
this This literally calls out to this film or like
there was just like little nuggets and that m me
think of like as we just said, those horror movies
in there, and I'm going, oh.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
My god, I love that it's playing up to this.
So it was.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It was Listen, I will never watch Steamboat Willie the
same way again because of this movie. Never watched that
cartoon in the same way again. But it was good.
It was definitely. It definitely had me just watching it,
and I was just mesmerized at the fact that these
young adults were just not really worrying about dying.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So good for them.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Good for them that they don't worry about those they
just their mortality.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I mean, listen, I mean we had the beginning of
the film week I'll say this for you guys, not
to get too much away, but at least in the
beginning of the film, you can kind of tell that
these young adults are distracted, particularly the one who basically
is just working and on her phone and really does
not care.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Yeah, well that that to me is that I got
rid of that character quite quickly when we were writing
the story, but I wanted to show that she exists.
You know, It's like there is I mean, we all
know that person who was just like, you know, you
invite it doesn't matter if they're at work or you
invite them to the pub or they there's that person.
They annoy me intently, which is why what happens to
her happens same same.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
So literally, I probably now can say this. I did
not feel bad when that happened because of that. So
I appreciate you saying that to me because now I
feel better about myself.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
No, unfortunately, mate, there's a very large portion of the audience.
I go, who are going to recognize that character? Like
for somebody that they know? And go, yeah, I mean, well, you.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Know, how long is this? Like when did the concept
even come about? For the for the mousetrap? How did
it start? When did it start? I should say, and.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
How did it start? So I'm sure you I don't
know if you saw a blood and honey which is
like a Winnie the Pooh horror movie that I did.
I did great idea, probably maybe not a great movie,
but it's certainly a great idea. So when last year
when I saw that movie, I also at the same
time heard that in the future in twenty twenty four,
(20:12):
Mickey Mouse was coming into or rather the steamboat Willies
Mickey Mouse was coming into public domain. I had this
crazy idea. I was like, oh, well, I am, We're
just going to do what they did because that was
a great idea. I was like, but we're going to
do it for Mickey And then loads of people were like,
you can't. You won't be able to do it for
Mickey Mouse. And I was like, why not, and they're like,
(20:33):
it's not this Winnie the Pooh was based on a book.
It wasn't really a Disney character. Remember, it's a book.
So but whereas Mickey Mouse is owned by what you know,
it's created and they've got you know, trade markets everything,
and they're like, you won't be able to do that,
and I was like, I'm pretty sure once it goes
into public domain, I think that's exactly what that's for. Actually,
you know sort of and you know, but lots of
(20:54):
people were gutless and they didn't want to they didn't
want to get involved. But I find a few brave
people that would, you know, sort of, So I.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Think it was more nat I think even it was
more because I heard that about people's uh, mis not misconceptions.
It was more or less their grievances about using Mickey
Mouse in this kind of fashion. I heard that, but
I was also going, I think it's more not because
it went into the public domain. I think it was
more like, you can't do this to making Mouse because
there's Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Like, oh yeah, I mean, there's there's those those type
of comments, but there are people that say that about
the Winnie the Poo thing, how dare you do this
to Winny? But you know, like and you're like, yeah,
you know, to be honest, remember number one, we love Disney.
I have Disney plus, you know, so I watch everything
they make. Disney at the heart of their principles, you know,
they're about fun and creativity and playing. That's exactly what
(21:44):
we're doing with this movie. You know, creative, we're having
fun and we're playing. So I mean, we're not that
far from Disney. But you know, our version of playing
as adults is to turn something you know that was
once a friendly symbol as a child into something scary,
because you know, when adults play, we watch horror movies
because we don't have We don't watch cartoons, you know,
(22:05):
in general, we don't we're not consumers of cartoons. But
if we want to have fun, we watch a horror movie.
That's our escapism and stuff like that. So this is
like making clowns scary or something, and plenty of movies
have done that, you know, sort of it's like what
clowns are like a young childhood's icon, and when you're young,
clowns are very you know, friendly and you know, funny
and stuff like that, and then later they become they
(22:26):
can become something scary, and that's you know, this is
no different to that at all. Yeah, it's just the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It just fillows in the same scope.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
It's just like we said, it's just you know, if
we can even use this as an example, if somebody
were to do something of this vein for bugs Buddy,
and people will be like, you can't.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Do that for bugs Bunny, I was like, well this
is different.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Bugs Buddy actually did that in his cartoons, so it's
not that far fetched. That's a little different on that scope.
I can you know Mickey Moles. Probably they're going like, well,
he's not violent, he's never he's nine, he has the laugh,
he has like no that. As you just said, this
is an escapism.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
So this is people need people need to stop worrying
about it so much. Is this is everything that's wrong
with the world. There's people worry too much about Well,
you can't do that, and you're like, I mean, you know,
I feel like at one point where the people that
went to the Moon, I was like, of course, you know, yes,
you can, you can do that. I was like, your
question is whether or not you should do that. But
that's you know, that's a little difference.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
One of the sense. We do have to wrap up
here in a couple of minutes. So one of my
final questions for this is when you were we talked
about how you guys went into this gun's blazing, gutsy,
you went, you went really all out. But was there
any point when this was being written, when this was
being shot anything like this. Was there at any point
(23:48):
any of you that was working on this went oh shit,
we can't do this this is way too out there.
But then it sounds like nothing was too out there.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
No, I think once we started, once I put the
mask on and we started, you know, and we have
Mickey Mouse, you know, sort of a knife in his
hand killing people. No, there wasn't really any point of thing.
And the rest of the world only became concerned about
it when we dropped the trailer in January and then
it like exploded on the internet one day. Twenty six
(24:20):
million people saw it in a single day. It was yeah,
and that wasn't a testament to us. That was a
testament to how powerful Mickey Mouse is, you know. So
it was like you remember that like Winnie the Pooh
doesn't travel everywhere, like he's probably not known in you know,
Italy or Africa or you know, but Mickey Mouse was
(24:41):
known everywhere. We were getting calls from like everywhere, you know,
like everywhere in the planet wanted the Mickey Mouse movie
because they you know, that's how much of a global
icon the cartoon character was, you know. So you know
that that's a testament to its popularity. But nobody was
the rest of the world got concerned when we dropped
the trailer. You know, about like, oh, you know, I
don't like this, but I will tell you now that
(25:03):
everywhere I wanted it. So there's always that morbid curiosity,
isn't that all the guy I'm not sure if you
should have done this. I was like, would you want
to see it or not? And they're like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There it is.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
That's that's cooled consumer appetites.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Can have your cake and eat it too kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
But yeah, exactly that.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, but I actually had fun watching it. This was better.
This was better than Blowing Honey for sure. So I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I shouldn't. I shouldn't slag those guys off, but it was.
My god, that was a terrible movie. But it was
a good idea.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
It was a good idea, it was the concept was good,
but but the execution was not. But this one really did.
Like I said, it had the dark humor and it
had you know, you were able to play up to
the history of the cartoon character plus everything else that
happens in the movie. So I was definitely entertained by it,
and hopefully everybody else was to. I mean, everybody wanted
to see the trailer. You got to watch the whole thing.
(25:57):
It is definitely it. I The last thing I'll this
with is it's going to leave you saying what the
fuck at the end.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's all I will say.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Wait, that might be the quote of the movie for me.
I was like, you know, when people go, what do
you want people to take away at the movie, I'm
gonna say right this this interview Novelle told me he
goes at the end of the movie, you're just gonna
be looking at yourself in the mirror, you know, looking
at what's left to the credits, going what the fuck?
And I'm like, that's brilliant. That's exactly the That's the
only thing I now want people to have as a
(26:27):
as an aftermath feeling.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Well, you're welcome for me bringing that to you, because
exactly what I said, Mate, when you hear me saying
that again, I'm saying I've got that from you.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I don't worry. I'll credit for you. I was like,
that's perfect, that's the perfect reaction.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Well, there it is, guys. I can't say I can't
end on a better note than that, Simon. It was
a pleasure you're talking with you, and I love to
have you back.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Great, Thank you Novelle for having me. I think I
speak for us both when I say the fuck.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
What the fuck? You? Thank so much appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I want to thank both of my guests RJ. Collins
and Simon Phillips. You can actually watch both of these films,
Cress City and The Mousetrap video on demand at your leisure.
And the news I wanted to mention is The Mousetrap
is getting a sequel, so it was announced a few
weeks ago that they will be back for another one.
(27:22):
So shout out to you Simon and making this happen again.
I can't wait to see the second installment of this film,
so major, major kudos to you, and thank you guys
for tuning in into this one.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I had so much fun.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Talking with these guys and hopefully you guys did too.
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(27:58):
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