We recently had the chance to chat with comedy maestro Judd Apatow about his latest producing effort, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Here's what the Trainwreck and Knocked Up filmmaker had to tell us about helping the Lonely Island guys bring their comedy to the big screen.
IGN: Popstar is a music mockumentary and as such draws inevitable comparisons to Spinal Tap. Is the genre still fundamentally the same beast 30 years after Spinal Tap or has it changed dramatically?
Judd Apatow: Well, the way people make real music documentaries, you know, is very different – they're pretty turbo-charged these days. You know, back then, people weren't videotaping every second of their lives. So now, when they make these documentaries they can pretty much show every single moment of their careers. That was what was so funny about Beyoncé's documentary—the one she made about herself—she showed how she basically had been, you know, recording everything that she's done and is doing. And so, there's something funny about people making these movies about themselves that are supposed to be very real but also completely self-promotional. So we thought it would be funny to show what happens when someone tries to make one of these documentaries and their life falls apart while it's happening.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...
IGN: Popstar is a music mockumentary and as such draws inevitable comparisons to Spinal Tap. Is the genre still fundamentally the same beast 30 years after Spinal Tap or has it changed dramatically?
Judd Apatow: Well, the way people make real music documentaries, you know, is very different – they're pretty turbo-charged these days. You know, back then, people weren't videotaping every second of their lives. So now, when they make these documentaries they can pretty much show every single moment of their careers. That was what was so funny about Beyoncé's documentary—the one she made about herself—she showed how she basically had been, you know, recording everything that she's done and is doing. And so, there's something funny about people making these movies about themselves that are supposed to be very real but also completely self-promotional. So we thought it would be funny to show what happens when someone tries to make one of these documentaries and their life falls apart while it's happening.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...