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And I think part of it, I'm sure, was that Adam Sandler really loved the original, wanted to remake the movie because it's a Happy Madison production, as you said.

But it's also an MTV production, which I, you know, this is our second MTV movies production we've done since we did Joe's Apartment.

But I did not remember that.

But I think that there's just – it wasn't – like you said, there wasn't a lot of effort put in.

It is owned by Trey Parker and Matt Stone through their production company, Park Country, or Park County.

Uh, Paramount Global, through Comedy Central and MTV Entertainment Group, hold the broadcast rights and share joint ownership of the digital studio.

So it's mi- a mishmash of Hollywood accounting and stuff like that, where the...

I, I think when it boils down to it, the real problem with stuff like this is, is like stuff takes so long to get through the corporate chain that it d- none of this feels authentic.

And before Summit Entertainment would end up grabbing the rights to make the first Twilight movie, the rights actually initially belonged to Paramount Pictures.

MTV Films would actually hire screenwriter Mark Lord to write a first draft of the film.

However, that draft would end up being a draft that author Stephenie Meyer would end up hating tremendously, mostly because Mark Lord infused a lot more action into the film than Meyer's original vision.

Lord did not think that the source material catered enough to the male audience, so his version of the script had Bella essentially being a Jason Bourne-ass bitch.

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Which kind of puts a fear of death in you a little bit, like when you used to see MTV Studios have made a movie.

It's like, oh, this is going to be shit.

Yeah, but

It gives me goosebumps every time.

Before we get into talking about the film, I just wanted to mention this movie is, as I said earlier, directed by Brian Robbins, released by MTV Films.

That was kind of fun to see that MTV Films title pop up.

It's something, you know, the spaceman, the guy in the spacesuit floating around.

Obviously, you don't see that too much nowadays.

That's why I couldn't stand when Tennessee did voice votes.

You didn't know who said yes or no to talk to later in a town hall produced by MTV Entertainment.

And here's what kills me.

The voting record is public.

So there's a little bit of a nod to an older novel going on from Tom Parada here.

MTV Productions got a hold of this book.

At the time, they were kind of dipping their toe in making movies.

MTV was one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the 80s and 90s as far as teen culture.

For some reason, he got inspiration to have, I guess, more characters involved and do other things with it, turn it into more of a disaster movie.

And then, Mark, while it might seem like an easy idea to market, 30 studios turned him down before he finally got a – first it was Paramount MTV Films, and then New Line was like, no, we want this, and they bought it instead.

You say 30 or three?

30.