NICK: Which you couldn’t say to someone, you know, that you didn’t know so well. SIMON: “Stop being so fucking grumpy, Edgar.” You also get to a point where that friendship enables you to say, you, know, “Enough.” So we can put up with all sorts of shit from each other and absorb it and understand it and… The thing about us is that the working relationship is fundamentalized by a social one which existed, particularly with me and Nick, prior to us working together, and as such we have a relationship which is more familial than if we were just colleagues. Is that the same after three movies? Have you learned ugly truths about your friends and collaborators? MANDATORY: OK, so it’s typical in movies that when groups of people are under duress, their true natures come out. MANDATORY: But did you take every chance anyway to walk around the set of The World’s End going, “Well, you know, on Star Trek, we had this…and this…” MANDATORY: If you start thinking like that, you’ll go insane. You get these ridiculous follies…I mean, the amount of human lives that could have been saved with that money…the amount of babies that wouldn’t have died… So we did everything we could to bring it in on budget and once we were sort of getting to the end of post production there were still effects shots we needed it was like going to the company and being like, “Look, do you want it to look like this or do you want it to look like that?” And they’d go, “OK, we’ll charge less for this.” You know? But when you’ve got limitless resources, I think it’s dangerous.
So we literally could not go over $30 million, there was no option of overrunning. We could not go over $30 million on this movie, because if we did we would have entered a whole new tax problem.
I think necessity is the mother of invention.
These films – everything gets thrown into them and then there’s a scramble to fix them and they just keep throwing money at it. I mean…$250 million? How could it ever earn all that back? But it sounds like a bit of a train wreck. I’m still slightly surprised to learn that he’s just one person after Social Network. SIMON: Ah, I see my copy of Town & Country has arrived.
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