The director Paul Feig62, reflected on the pressure it faced after the launch of the comedy “MISSION MISSION OF MARRIAGE“. The director’s film was nominated for Oscar of Best Original Screenplay and from Best Supporting Actress by the work of Melissa mccarthy em 2012.
Feig, who will launch the sequence of “a small favor” starring and Anna Kendrick, was at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, United States, last Friday (7). The director talked about how much he depended on the success or failure of the 2011 comedy.
“So many writers of my friendly women were trying to make women starring women and all they heard from the studios was: ‘We have to wait and see as’ Mission Godmother’s Mission’ will be received,” Feig said, as reported by Variety.
“I was like, ‘p*rra, don’t put that pressure on me. Am I going to ruin the movies for women? ‘”He remembered to question himself at the time.
Feig also made an interesting comparison on the men starring men that was released two years before “Merit Mission of Marriage”: “I don’t think ‘if you drink, don’t marry!’ It had the same effect on the studios like, ‘Let’s wait to see how these guys on the screen go before we do it again.’ But I’m glad [“Missão Madrinha de Casamento”] it worked out.”
“Mission Mission of Wedding” starred in Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne, and raised about $ 300 million ($ 1.7 billion in the current conversion, without inflation correction).
“When the movie premiered, they thought we wouldn’t work,” Feig said this week. “They said, ‘you have to do $ 20 million in the opening week or the movie will be considered a failure.’ And we had a session the previous night of the premiere that wasn’t well. They were like, ‘will only give $ 13 million, it was bad, it went wrong’. All day I was thinking ‘I think I destroyed women’s comedies’. ”
When he finally received the good news about “Missing Mission of Wedding,” he was in good company. “And Ben Falcone were at our house for dinner and out of nowhere we received the messages: ’20 million. 21. 22 ′. So we got into the car and went to the Arclight cinema in Los Angeles and he was crowded. It was the greatest moment of our lives. ”
