Mr. Machine

Danny McBride talks YOUR HIGHNESS, EASTBOUND AND DOWN and MR. MACHINE

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: May 29th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

Earlier today I participated in a roundtable interview with Danny McBride for his upcoming movie “Land of the Lost”. As a huge fan of Danny’s work in “The Foot Fist Way”, “Tropic Thunder”, and “Eastbound and Down”, I’m happy to report that Danny is fantastic in “Land of the Lost” and he has some great scenes with Will Ferrell. If you’ve been watching “Eastbound” on HBO, you know what I’m talking about.

Anyway, while I’ll be posting the full transcript in the coming days, here’s some selected quotes on “Eastbound and Down”, “Your Highness” and “Mr. Machine”.

On “Your Highness”:

• Natalie Portman just signed on
• They filming in some of it in Belfast and the shooting schedule is from the second week of July till the middle of October
• Says it’s like “Barry Lyndon” meets “Krull”
• It’s about two brothers (James Franco and Danny) whose fiancée gets kidnapped by an evil wizard and we have to go on the road and save her. There’s everything from stop-motion creatures to puppets like in “Dark Crystal”
• They’re going for a British cast and not necessarily comedians for the rest of the parts

On “Eastbound”:

• Danny says he’s open to a third season but it hasn’t been decided
• The second season might be 8 episodes
• Will Ferrell might be back on the next season
• They are going to film it end of this year or early next year

On “Mr. Machine”:

• It’s an old script that David Green and Danny wrote.
• It takes place in the 80s and has kind of a “Gremlins” like feel to it.
• They make this robot for their science project and it ends up taking over their town.

For exactly what Danny said about all these movies, the transcript is after the jump.

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