News: Ferrell and Reilly Talk “Step Brothers”

Collider got to visit the set of the upcoming comedy ridiculousness that is Step Brothers [watch the trailer], directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as two losers who still live at home, but are forced to move in together when their parents get married. As you might expect, the interview was absurd, but worth a read. Some fun bits included Ferrell talking about his upcoming project, Land of the Lost.

Q: How did the writing work?

Will Ferrell: Actually, I shouldn’t even say this – we farmed it out to China. There are a group of writers who work, they are called the Omega Group and they are pretty close to our voice. There were some cultural things that were slightly different.

John C. Reilly: All the script notes came from India. And they would just talk to the writers in China.

Q: Can you talk about the freedom of working in R-rated environment and not having to hold back?

WF: We just kind of both came from doing R movies before this, but still I’ve never gotten to work with Adam in this setting. It is great to not have to edit yourself in that way just because on Anchorman and Talladega we were always like “Is that too much? Do we need to find an alt for that?” That being said, we still find ourselves trying to do a couple takes that are a little less stocked with the F word just in case we have F word overload. We are like addicts who finally get to say bad words.

Q: Are you going to do [Land of the Lost] as an action comedy or straight comedy or maybe something more serious?

WF: It is going to be very serious; it is going to be kind of on the tone of The English Patient, but with dinosaurs, horribly frighteningly realistic dinosaurs. In fact, we only survive for 12 minutes in the movie the rest is mostly just action shots of dinosaurs communicating through sleestacks. It is going to be more like a nature documentary.

Q: Is it going to be a parody or a spoof?

WF: It is going to be kind of hopefully like Jurassic Park. It is not going to be a spoof in terms of the look it is going to be as real as possible and hopefully funny.

JCR: Will Ferrell reacting to real dinosaurs. That sounds funny to me.