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Impractical Joker James Murr Murray Releases The Thriller Movie Don't Move · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: If you're really into the odd sports, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: stuff on the sidelines here that aren't connected to the NHL,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, NFL or Major League Baseball. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: American Ninja Warrior, professional wrestling and so many other things.
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  Speaker 1: That's what all level sports are about. You can find
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  Speaker 1: it on Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy your love for sports now.
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  Speaker 1: and your exploration.
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  Speaker 2: Murr, good morning. How are you doing today? Hi, good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Very excited because I talked with you a few years back,
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  Speaker 1: and it was one of those situations where we kind
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  Speaker 1: of talked on this, and you said, I can't talk
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  Speaker 1: about it yet, but we will.
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  Speaker 2: And my God, that's how fast time flies, dude.
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  Speaker 4: That's wild, man. We talked about Don't Move?
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  Speaker 1: Well, what happened was I said, what else are you
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  Speaker 1: doing at this time? And you kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you hemmed and you hawed and you said, I got
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  Speaker 1: a project, but I can't talk about it right now.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going, I know what you're up to.
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  Speaker 1: But now that it's here and I've experienced this movie,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, there's two huge questions I got to
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  Speaker 1: ask you. First of all, what's going on in this
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  Speaker 1: movie without spoiling it? The things that are left on
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  Speaker 1: the ground remind me so much of these fiber optic
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  Speaker 1: droids or these drones that are over there in Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: right now. When I saw that scene, I went, oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, he is absolutely spot on with something that's
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  Speaker 1: taking place in our own lives right now with those
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  Speaker 1: things on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: I got to be honest. I have no idea what
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Like I understand the drone thing in the UK, but
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  Speaker 3: how does that connect to don't move?
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: The spider webs on the ground. the spider webs.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: But how does that connect?
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  Speaker 2: It was exactly where it took me.
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  Speaker 1: And so what I did was I thought, Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those situations where, you know, where,
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  Speaker 1: where reality becomes a storyline, which freaked me out even
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  Speaker 1: more because it was like, Oh my God, this guy
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  Speaker 1: is always writing about things that we can relate with.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So are you, are you now afraid that you might
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  Speaker 3: wander accidentally into a woods or where prehistoric arachnid lives
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  Speaker 3: and can sense your movement by vibration, just like you're
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  Speaker 3: now afraid of drones flying overhead.
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  Speaker 1: Well, obviously you've been to my forest and why I
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  Speaker 1: don't go out there at night. And I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: and most of your movie is filmed at night, which
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  Speaker 1: even made it freakier for me because I am afraid
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  Speaker 1: of my forest.
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  Speaker 4: No, I... What is the nearest forest to you? I'll
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  Speaker 4: look it up. I'll see if there's any giant arachnids that.
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  Speaker 1: Are going to come to me. Well, I'm here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: So this is tree country USA. So we are surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by trees all the time. But I did like this
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  Speaker 1: movie in the way that your pacing is fabulous. And
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  Speaker 1: this is every bit the reason why Steven Spielberg said
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  Speaker 1: that today's writers and movie makers are tomorrow's greatest directors
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  Speaker 1: and writers. And the way that you pace things out
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's the, uh, the movie, the movies, uh, it's called
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  Speaker 4: don't move it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's about a, uh, church group from Chicago that
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  Speaker 3: goes on their annual summer camping trip to the Ozark
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  Speaker 3: wilderness and.
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  Speaker 4: They wander into the wrong woods.
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  Speaker 3: Basically they make a wrong turn and they touch on a,
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  Speaker 3: a pristine area of wilderness that humanity has not yet
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  Speaker 3: developed in any way. And there's this prehistoric kind of
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  Speaker 3: creature that can hunt them by the vibration in the forest. Um,
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  Speaker 3: so it is a, uh, the movie starts pretty terrifyingly
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  Speaker 3: when our lead character kind of loses her family and
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  Speaker 3: in this very preventable tragedy. And then she's, then the
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  Speaker 3: movie gets funny because the cast is Rob Riggles in it.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Cavanaugh's in it. They're so funny, charming.
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  Speaker 3: And, but then the movie, when the horror hits again,
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  Speaker 3: then it goes all in and the pace is relentless
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  Speaker 3: from that point forward.
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  Speaker 4: But the cast is awesome, too. We got the rapper
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  Speaker 4: Russ in his debut movie.
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay Fonseca from every Hallmark movie you've ever seen is
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  Speaker 3: so charming and likable. And you got T-Pain and Q's
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  Speaker 3: in the movie from Impractical Jokers. We worked hard on
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  Speaker 3: that kind of pacing and that energy. It's always keeping
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  Speaker 3: your attention, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There is more with James Murr
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  Speaker 1: Murray coming up next. The name of the movie, Don't Move,
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  Speaker 1: but do see it in theaters opening weekend. Give this
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  Speaker 1: man some love and support. It's called Don't Move. We
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  Speaker 1: are back with James Murr Murray. You have some music
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  Speaker 1: inside this soundtrack that really, and I didn't get the
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  Speaker 1: chance to ask Russ if he was part of it,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to ask you. Did he record any
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  Speaker 1: of that music? Because you've got a tune right in
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  Speaker 1: the center of this movie. I'm going, holy crap, if
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  Speaker 1: they don't release that as a single, they're totally missing out.
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  Speaker 3: So not only are there a few Russ songs in
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  Speaker 3: the movie, but he recorded an original song in the
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  Speaker 3: movie that you can only hear by going to see
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  Speaker 3: the movie.
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  Speaker 2: And it's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: It is so good. He's so talented, you know. But yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And we've got, of course, Tiffany. I think we're alone
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  Speaker 4: now in the movie. We want to figure songs of
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  Speaker 4: all time.
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  Speaker 3: And the composer of the movie was really fantastic. Totally
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  Speaker 3: got the style of it. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: To see Russ doing the impersonation of the song and
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  Speaker 1: to basically be doing like karaoke. I laughed so loud,
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  Speaker 1: but it really brought me in as a viewer and said,
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  Speaker 1: my God, I'm really becoming a part of this circle.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, cool, man. That's great. Yeah, yeah. It's got an
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  Speaker 4: original Russ song in the movie. It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Could this have easily gone into a graphic novel or
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  Speaker 1: did it start off as that kind of a creative
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  Speaker 1: process for you before it became the movie?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's an interesting question.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe. I am working on a graphic novel now for
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  Speaker 3: my first book, Awakened, that came out years and years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And I could see this developing into that. But it's
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  Speaker 3: based on the book Don't Move, which we wrote five years,
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  Speaker 3: six years ago now. And it did really well and
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  Speaker 3: was a bestseller. And it was a pretty easy adaptation
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  Speaker 3: into a screenplay. And then the variable that makes the
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  Speaker 3: movie so good is the cast is so good. And
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  Speaker 3: the director of the movies, a buddy of ours, McLean Nelson,
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  Speaker 3: comes from a rom-com background. Oh, yeah. Which I do
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  Speaker 3: not think has any kind of correlation to horror. But
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  Speaker 3: what it did, he's made 50 movies that are rom-coms.
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  Speaker 3: His expertise in that has actually given Don't Move, the movie,
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  Speaker 3: so much more heart than the book has. You care
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  Speaker 3: about these people. And also, they make good decisions. And
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it works out for them and sometimes it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's no dumb horror decisions made. Like, they're
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  Speaker 3: all acting rationally and thinking through problems, and sometimes it
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  Speaker 3: works out, but sometimes it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Is there going to be a director's cut? Because I
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  Speaker 1: know that Rob Riggle didn't deliver those lines perfectly. He
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  Speaker 1: loves to have so much fun.
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  Speaker 4: Some of my favorite lines in the movie are improvised
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  Speaker 4: from Riggle. No joke.
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  Speaker 3: And when I got into a good rhythm on set where...
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  Speaker 3: I'd be watching on the side and I'd go up
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  Speaker 3: to Riddle, whisper in his ear, but I wouldn't tell
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  Speaker 3: anyone else. And the next take, he'd do the line
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  Speaker 3: I suggested. And I just watched the crew and the
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  Speaker 3: director McLean cracking up laughing. And many times those got
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  Speaker 3: into the cut because they're just improvised wild lines, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the thing about it is, though, this could
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  Speaker 1: be that one movie that he does where he plays
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  Speaker 1: kind of a, you know, yes, it is fun, but
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  Speaker 1: he also plays a serious role. And I got to
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  Speaker 1: see a different side of him. And I kept going,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Murr did that because Murr is going to
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  Speaker 1: pull out different personalities out of everybody he works with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the most interesting for me, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Riggle playing straight scenes. There's a couple of scenes where
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  Speaker 3: it gets very serious. It's wild. Because you take him
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  Speaker 3: seriously as a result when you see that total shit.
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  Speaker 3: And then even T-Pain has never been in a horror movie,
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  Speaker 3: never played a serious character ever. He's always cast as
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  Speaker 3: his real personality. He's just a very charming, likable guy.
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  Speaker 3: And to cast him off type to play a very
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  Speaker 3: serious kind of intense character while he still has this
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  Speaker 3: very likable face and charisma, it just works in the
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  Speaker 3: movie as a result, you know? I love horror that
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  Speaker 3: does that kind of stuff, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I love the idea that the campground itself is
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  Speaker 1: not your typical, I'm taking my RV out to a campground,
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  Speaker 1: that you really put them out there in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: which then to me added to the mystery and to
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  Speaker 1: the fear of what was going on. So you picked
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  Speaker 1: the right place for them to be camping.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it really is kind of beautiful country out
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  Speaker 3: there and these kind of rivers and valleys and mountains.
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  Speaker 3: It's very much like North and South Carolina, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a similar kind of like just isn't, it's untouched. It's just,
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  Speaker 3: hundreds of miles where there's no humanity you know.
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  Speaker 1: Wow and in that water the second they go into
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  Speaker 1: that water inside my mind i went they have to
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  Speaker 1: be freezing first of all it's at night and it's
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  Speaker 1: in the forest and lord knows i've been in a
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  Speaker 1: forest enough to know that when they got out of
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  Speaker 1: that water they must have been shaking like it was
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  Speaker 1: 52 below.
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  Speaker 3: You know the uh the whole climax of the movie
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  Speaker 3: ends with uh them in the water and uh just
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  Speaker 3: like in the book and uh we were filming in
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  Speaker 3: kansas city And it was so interesting. During the day,
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  Speaker 3: it was 90 degrees out. At night, it was dropping to.
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  Speaker 4: The high 40s.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: So that water was freezing. We got one take.
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  Speaker 3: One take only.
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  Speaker 4: And that is the take that's in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: But see, that's what you're all about. I mean, even
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  Speaker 1: with Impractical Jokers, I mean, you guys are all about that.
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  Speaker 1: Get into the moment of right now. Do what you
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  Speaker 1: got to do. We'll worry about splicing later on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, dude, I don't know if you saw what
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  Speaker 3: they did to me last week. It'll air on TV
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  Speaker 3: in January. But I stepped foot off the top of
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  Speaker 3: the Empire State Building. dangling from a rope and i
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  Speaker 3: was dressed as a human mop and i used my
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  Speaker 3: own body to clean the outside glass of the empire
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  Speaker 3: state building so yeah that was they called it the
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  Speaker 3: uh miracle on 34th street.
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  Speaker 1: Now where can people go to find out more about
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  Speaker 1: don't move because i want them to check this out
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  Speaker 1: and experience it on the big screen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a great date night horror film. It's
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  Speaker 3: not creepy crawly. It's not too gory. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: love it. It's just great mainstream horror. It's go to
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  Speaker 3: don't move movie dot com. And you can see the
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  Speaker 3: map there. Put your zip code in and see all
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  Speaker 3: the theaters it's playing in. in. We just announced yesterday
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  Speaker 3: that AMC picked up the movie as well. So overnight
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  Speaker 3: we just added a hundred more cities and, uh, and, um,
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  Speaker 3: hoping that regal comes on board as well. So you
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  Speaker 3: can see where the movie's playing near you. Uh, and
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  Speaker 3: for an indie movie like us, it's all that first
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  Speaker 3: opening weekend, you know, how much we just like the
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  Speaker 3: Joker's movie. That'll determine how much we expand. So if
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  Speaker 3: you have the means and love a great date on horror,
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  Speaker 3: go to don't.