![]() (Some say the duo was “robbed” of a credit by the WGA arbitration.) Bender after his armtwisting got a fee and an executive producer credit as a “make-good”. Meanwhile, under Silverman’s supervision, Phillips and Jeremy Gerelick ( The Break Up) did a rewrite described to me as vast of The Hangover inserting the the baby, the tiger, Mike Tyson, the gangster, the cop car, and more. ![]() Then, as he and his fiancee make last-minute preparations for their big day, the strange characters he befriended during his lost weekend - including a chicken and a tiger - begin to make surprise appearances. Then again, back in 2003, the same Greg Silverman bought a pitch from Mark Perez for The Afterparty, in which a young man enjoys his Las Vegas bachelor party so much he can’t remember anything about it. And it was only after Bender showed WB lawyers his email exchanges with Lucas-Moore that the studio finally agreed he’d helped develop the concept.) (My sources claim McKnight sold the script without Bender. But Warner Bros nonetheless bought the spec script pre-emptively. But when the spec was finished, CAA agent Gregory McKnight attached Old School director Todd Phillips to the project and slipped it to Warner Bros because Phillips had a first-look deal there. At the time, Phillips’ star wasn’t very high: he’d stumbled with Starsky & Hutch at Warner Bros, and been replaced as the director of Borat. So then the writers and BenderSpink decided to spec it out with the understanding that New Line would get first crack. New Line passed at that price (as did every other studio) - especially with 2 other bachelor party movies being fast-tracked at Universal. But by then they wanted a huge raise for the project. (In 2008, 20th Century Fox used that title. When New Line couldn’t clear the title, Shaye didn’t buy the film. But the phrase that relaunched Sin City proved a nightmare to purchase since so many people claimed to have come up with it. Everyone was excited - but then New Line boss Bob Shaye threw up a roadblock: he said he’d only buy it if the movie could be called, What Happens In Vegas. ![]() So did Bender who produced both New Line pics Monster-In-Law and Just Friends, on which the writing pair did some uncredited work. It turned out that New Line really wanted a Bachelor Party-set-in-Las Vegas movie, and SVP/COO Richard Brener wanted to buy the pitch for $750,000. And when I was revived, I was in a strip club being threatened with a very, very large bill I was supposed to pay. It was not a fun experience at the time, but it made for a funny story.”īender thought it would make a great movie. So he kicked the idea around with the Four Christmases writing team of Lucas and Moore who had a good working relationship with New Line. And when people are fucked up, crazy shit happens.” That’s when Tripp went missing from his bash. Even now, all Vinson knows is, “I got separated from my friends, and I blacked out. “I remember being a drunken fool, as you’re supposed to do at your bachelor party, and having a really good time with all my friends,” Vinson told me. It consisted of 30 guys booked into the Hard Rock Hotel for a wild night of partying at a succession of Vegas restaurants, clubs and strip joints. Instead, the bachelor party was held months earlier. There was no wedding scheduled that same weekend. Like always happens, the real facts don’t quite match up with the movie. The pal ( photo, right) was film producer Tripp Vinson ( The Guardian, The Number 23, and now the Red Dawn remake) who in 2002 was engaged to marry Endeavor motion picture lit agent Adriana Alberghetti. It all started with Chris Bender who heard the story of how his Hollywood friend went mysteriously missing from his bachelor party in Las Vegas. Oh really? Well, here’s what I first thought was the full and complete story of how The Hangover got made. (And why wasn’t any of the following mentioned in Sunday’s New York Times story about New Line and Warner Bros? Now people are coming out of the woodwork to tell me there’s still more missing info.
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