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"ATHF - Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie" Dave Willis & Matt Maillaro - The Interview by Chad Michaels April 11, 2007 Watch "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie" Trailer 
On January 31, 2007, police in Boston, Massachusetts received reports of devices resembling bombs in various places around the city. The devices turned out to be electronic signs similar to a Lite-Brite that displayed images of the Mooninites Ignignokt and Err giving the finger, and were designed to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force television show as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign authorized by Cartoon Network, the cartoon's parent company. The boards were present in several cities for weeks before the ones in Boston were reported. The Boston City Government sought a reimbursement for the money spent responding to the incident. The amount quoted was $500,000 initially, and then was increased to $750,000. On February 5th it was announced that Turner Broadcasting and the city of Boston have reached an agreement to pay $2 million to offset the cost of removing the devices: $1 million to cover the cost of the agencies involved and an additional $1 million in goodwill funding. DAVE WILLIS: It's interesting. Matt and I didn't meet until we worked together over here, but when I was in college, Matt was filming Hellraiser III on my campus. We never met, but they were busy blowing up the new student life building or the business administration building or something. MATT MAIELLARO: I worked on Hellraiser III, Children of the Corn 2, Basket Case 3...I sort of sought out the pictures and got myself a job on them. I was a big horror fan growing up. DAVE WILLIS: Matt helped start Space Ghost. I came into that in the middle. I worked on a Cartoon Network shoot, and they hooked me up with Andy Merrill, who is the voice of Brak and was a Space Ghost producer in the early years and throughout a big chunk of the '90s. But I sent him a letter. My sister's a Special Ed teacher, so she had one of her students copy a letter I wrote. It basically says "Dear Sirs. My name is Robert. I am 8. I recommend Dave Willis without reservation. He's a fine, upstanding…" and then there's a picture of a car and then "Love, Robert." I got hired off that and worked my way up. It's weird. I'd just gotten hired, and Matt had just quit three weeks earlier to do some movie stuff in L.A., and then he came back…So I'd been working on Space Ghost from '96 to '98, and then Matt came back to write for it, so we started working together…We'd just written this Space Ghost Coast To Coast script… MATT MAIELLARO: Space Ghost had gone to a fast food restaurant and he'd ordered a ton of food. He didn't have the money to pay for it, so in lieu of money, the burger chain said: "We're going to put our mascots on your show." That was going to be Master Shake, Meatwad and Frylock, and they were gonna just sort of hijack the show. WAM: So that's how Aqua Teen Hunger Force was born? DAVE WILLIS: I think it showed maybe how bored we were with Space Ghost and Zorak that these fast-food characters came in and sort of took over the show. It never got made, because there wasn't enough Space Ghost in there, and Master Shake and Meatwad and Frylock just took it over completely. We always liked that script. It seemed like it dawned on us a couple of months later that it'd be a cool show on its own. MATT MAIELLARO: You don't see this in the show as a whole, but in the process of coming up with the show, there was an idea that maybe they were corporate mascots that had a life of their own. That's not even part of the show, but I think that was part of the thought process. DAVE WILLIS: In the beginning, we had to throw a detective angle onto it. The network kind of wanted that. "What do they do?" "I don't know, they just kind of hang out." MATT MAIELLARO: It was like pitching to a brick wall. WAM: How did Aqua Teen develop once the pitch was accepted? DAVE WILLIS: I think we did everything wrong in the beginning, but we believed in the idea, and they gave us enough rope to see if we could pull it off. MATT MAIELLARO: The first season was one show. It took an entire year to develop, animate and put one show together. And it aired like Dec. 31, at 1 a.m., so it would hit that year's budget. We totally did it the wrong way. We had come from producing Space Ghost, so we figured, well, that'll be an easy way to do this show, and of course it was exactly the wrong way to do it. We learned a lot of expensive lessons. DAVE WILLIS: We had already started the second one before the first one was done, to ensure that we got picked up. We took it upon ourselves to record number two, and I remember our boss Mike was like: "You did what?! I haven't even seen number one yet!" MATT MAIELLARO: But they gave us the money to do it, so at the end of the day, they must have believed in it and believed in us. But it was really awkward. It called upon qualities that neither one of us has in spades, to kind of sell yourself and sell this product. It's a lot easier just to do it. WAM: What has your experience been working for Adult Swim? DAVE WILLIS: I think we're pretty blessed. MATT MAIELLARO: There's not a lot of great comedy out there on TV. With this stuff, if it's not funny, at least it's weird and unexpected. Maybe we're not successful every time out of the gate, but at least we try to do something completely different. Most of network television is so homogenized by the time it's reached the air. There are few hurdles we have to clear before getting something on the air. Once we write it and put it together, that's about it… We get to do things nobody else would let us do. I wrote a spec for Third Rock From the Sun, and they just looked at it like: "There's no way, it's too bizarre, the kind of things you do." Everybody else out there is scared, they're spending so much money that they want to make sure your idea fits this template that's been working forever. Over here, we get to come up with crazy ideas. Food items have a show. We do have more freedom here. You can feel it. It's not like we're making it in a basement for eight other people. It's definitely a business, with a business model and ad sales and all that. But to make an analogy, I keep hearing it's like roulette. Instead of putting all your chips on one thing, it's all about spreading out the chips. These shows have such small budgets. As a viewer, if a 15-minute show sucks, just stick around. There'll be something else on soon. No one else is making these short shows out there that I can think of. DAVE WILLIS: We were using this editor from LA on this one show, and he was talking to us about the third act, and we were like: "What, the last 90 seconds?" People talk about trying to end on a cliffhanger, but we've gotten to a point where we just instinctively go to a non sequitur and that just wraps it up. If we went to half an hour, we'd actually have to have... MATT MAIELLARO: An outline. DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, we'd actually have to outline stuff. WAM: Talk about your creative process. DAVE WILLIS: We get together on a Monday, crank out the script, maybe get together on a weekend to write and rewrite. We tend to not invest too much time in it. We record on a Friday, not really word for word, just mess around with it. Then give to an editor who messes with it for a couple of weeks, sort of an audio cut. After that, we'll look at it, Matt and I, and give suggestions and make changes, since we've got to write the next week, it takes about six weeks, and they work on it on their own. They'll put a rough picture to it, using Photoshop, and basically make an anamatic. Then we'll send it to these guys down the street who spend three weeks or so giving it all the animation. Then we'll spend a few days with another guy, adding sound effects and music, and then we're done…We pitch in with voices whenever we can because it's too hard to audition and hire and direct. It's a lot easier to just do it yourself…The guy who's the main voice of Master Shake, Dana Snyder, is really, really talented, and helped us take that character in a totally different direction. We try to encourage as much improvisation inside the studio as possible. But the story stays the same, and the lines for the most part stay the same; they just get tweaked and made more real. WAM: How would you describe Aqua Teen Hunger Force? MATT MAIELLARO: They just hang out, and stuff happens to them. It's sort of like 'Three's Company' on acid. WAM: So whose idea was it to do this as a full length feature? DAVE WILLIS: Once we figured out what we were going to do, it was easy to go right into making the movie because we knew we wanted to do a movie for awhile. It wasn't that hard of a leap for us. WAM: Does the movie make it real? Is that bigger than doing a TV show? DAVE WILLIS: We just wanted to plant the seed in Adult Swim's mind that there might be a movie being made. MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, it is bigger too. WAM: So do you think you'll do more and maybe use the "F" word? DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, it was all about language, the language that we could use. MATT MAIELLARO: We could finally use the "F" word. We've been so creatively stifled because the "F" word is the one thing we haven't been able to say. It is a bigger thing. We're getting to stay at the Four Seasons, that's bigger, than say the Sheraton. WAM: What do you think of how the audience reacted at the screening yesterday when Frylock said 'Fuck'? MATT MAIELLARO: Oh yeah, they do. We actually had a screening where … We did a distributor screening in L.A. where we got the sound… We've been slammed in trying to get it done in time for the screening. We screwed up the sound a little bit and so the bleeps were off, so it was like, you know, but it worked. 'So what the fuck BLEEP.' But people talked about that and so we responded. We sort of kept some of that. Sometimes things are bleeped, sometimes things are bleeped after the fact. DAVE WILLIS: Sometimes there's the bleep and the word simultaneously. MATT MAIELLARO: So it just worked. WAM: Talk about the creative process of bringing this into a feature film from a TV show. MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, usually we write the show in one day and this took four days. That was creative. DAVE WILLIS: About 70 pages longer so you got to put your time in. MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, that's it. DAVE WILLIS: When the editor says, 'hey, can you sit down and watch this with me.' It's not like, 'Hey, lemme get a cup of coffee.' It's like, 'Jesus, let me figure out my schedule.' WAM: You always wanted to go to the origins of the show. How did the exercise machine play into that? DAVE WILLIS: Oh naturally that leads to any origin in life. MATT MAIELLARO: Dave and I had both gotten Bowflexes and we were exercising a lot, taking our shirts off at work and sort of comparing our muscles and we thought, 'Hey, this would make a great motion picture, a great movie – us in front of a mirror.' WAM: How did Basket Case 3, Hellraiser III, and playing the electric guitar help you with this? MATT MAIELLARO: You looked up Wikipedia. There we go. It helps. I think you know Dave and I have different interests when it comes to movies and music and some more horror, heavy metal, Dave's more comedy, more other kind of music, and I think… DAVE WILLIS: Gay music. MATT MAIELLARO: Gay music actually, yeah. I didn't really want to say it, but… It just makes for a good meld, you know. It makes for just a different creative show. We're not both watching the same things, we're not both influenced by the same things, and we bring it together and then dreams come true. WAM: Do you guys both have a sick sense of humor? MATT MAIELLARO: A sick sense? DAVE WILLIS: I think we both respond to the shocking type of humor. I think Matt says he's not a big kind of comedy guy but I mean if you look at some of those horror movies, pure shocking horror. I mean there's connection there, you know, so… MATT MAIELLARO: The sequel's in production. WAM: How did you come up with this concept in the first place? MATT MAIELLARO: We wrote these characters into a Space Ghost show a long time ago when we were doing Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and they were part of the show and they hijacked the whole show, and we never got to make that show, and Dave and I knew that there was something to these guys for their own gig and we just held onto it and pushed it and got it done. DAVE WILLIS: I think we were also kind of just a little spent on Space Ghost and it showed in that script. It was all those characters. I mean Space Ghost has two lines in it. That's why our executive producer was like, 'Are we going to beef up the Space Ghost in this Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode?' I think we just fell in love with the characters when we were making that. WAM: Did they come up with the idea 'can you make it or drink it and fries' or did you come up with it? MATT MAIELLARO: Oh we did. We came up with it. WAM: I was just wondering where that idea even came from... MATT MAIELLARO: It came from us. DAVE WILLIS: You know if you think about it, I don't know, I can't think of any specific characters, but I mean there's just a long history of advertising and making the objects that you sell into actually cute characters in order to somehow make them more appealing. So I mean that thought went into this, but then obviously when we had the show, we were like, 'That'll be interesting for about two seconds.' You know it's probably better to make them just crappy post college roommates in some crappy rental house. WAM: The opening is so brilliant and hilarious. Did you guys as little kids see that in the theater and say, 'Let's all go to the lobby'? Where did that come from? MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, obviously, I remember the dancing Nacho coming out and the pepper, and we wanted those guys just to get the shit beat out of them by some other bad food or candy. WAM: What was your reaction to what happened in Boston? DAVE WILLIS: What happened in Boston we don't even know. We're not allowed to talk about Boston. WAM: Were you surprised by the uproar? MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, of course. I mean, wow. Those are our characters. WAM: Do you guys want to send DVD's to the Boston police so they can see they're cartoon characters? DAVE WILLIS: I think we would love to talk about this but we can't. MATT MAIELLARO: We really can't. Believe me, we could keep you here all day. WAM: On the show, do you guys have any sort of bible for continuity? I remember in the first season they went to the mall and we'll still always have the rabbit hole which I thought was awesome, but then in later episodes, the characters died and they'd come back, and you'd just make up stuff. DAVE WILLIS: We don't have any bible or continuity or story boards or anything. We just… If we happen to think of that, like, 'oh, the rabbit hole should be there.' Do we have money to put that in? MATT MAIELLARO: It's actually there though in the movie. In the high res sort of version of the loft, we wanted to kind of have an homage to old episodes and we can see the rabbit hole has been re-mortared. DAVE WILLIS: Yeah. Rabbot's in the scene too, and then when they come back from the past, he's way back there. MATT MAIELLARO: We have all these characters from the history of the show that are just hidden throughout the movie. WAM: Does Adult Swim ever give you any sort of like 'why are you killing off Frylock in this episode?' or do they just leave you alone? DAVE WILLIS: They don't even know. MATT MAIELLARO: They leave you alone. DAVE WILLIS: When they see it on the air, they say 'why did you?' WAM: Do you have to get script approval from anybody? MATT MAIELLARO: No, well Legal and S[tandards] & [Practices] give us a hard time but that's it. WAM: What about the formulation of the characters and the addition of Carl and the differences between the three characters? Why Carl? MATT MAIELLARO: In the beginning it's almost like Carl sort of grounded it in some reality, like there actually was a sort of I guess a fish out of water element where 'oh wow, they live in a human world,' but as the show progressed, the world just became so insane and Carl almost became sleazier and more detestable than the Aqua Teens were, to the point where they were kind of like 'living next to Carl's kind of bringing down our real estate value.' WAM: Is Carl a neighbor of one of yours? DAVE WILLIS: No. WAM: Do you know anybody like that? DAVE WILLIS: No, just go to Jersey. They're all like that. Right? Isn't that true? MATT MAIELLARO: Uh huh. DAVE WILLIS: We don't know, but… WAM: It's a little early but have you thought about what you're going to do for the DVD? DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, the DVD's almost done actually. MATT MAIELLARO: We have a whole deleted movie on the DVD. Literally there's a half hour worth of stuff. You know we just kept cutting stuff out and yeah, it's got rough cuts and at some point it goes to our first table read, this thing in 2004. They're almost done with it. It's pretty… There's a lot of stuff on there. It's pretty interesting. DAVE WILLIS: 2-1/2 years of making, we documented everything, so it's really going to be chock full. You're going to get your money's worth there. WAM: Is there going to be any sort of seamless branching or is there just going to be the movie and there'll be a separate area for deleted stuff. Do you know how it's set up? DAVE WILLIS: It's separate, isn't it? MATT MAIELLARO: It's a two-disc set. There's the movie, there's a full length deleted movie, then there's other deleted scenes that did not appear in that deleted movie. We did a 'making of' documentary. DAVE WILLIS: There's somebody else's movie on it. MATT MAIELLARO: That's right. DAVE WILLIS: He doesn't know about that so maybe don't print that. We did a good half hour documentary on sort of everybody talking about a would be role. There's a full 10 minutes of how we made the potato gun and fired the potato gun for the one potato gun sound that's in the movie. It took us 2-1/2 years. We have a small group of people. It's not like half of Korea is making our movie with us. But we were also making the DVD at the same time, and either Matt or myself would have a camera sort of filming what we were doing and just documenting it. WAM: Do you have a voice over commentary over the actual movie or not? DAVE WILLIS: We're still working on that, right? MATT MAIELLARO: We haven't done that yet. There are people that we're going to do instead because we're so tired of the movie. DAVE WILLIS: We're tired of doing the same commentary over and over after five DVD's. It's like the same thing. MATT MAIELLARO: You know, Elvis Mitchell is a fan and I think we're going to get him to moderate some other sort of celebrity, fans, people that worked on it so it'll just have a totally different feel. DAVE WILLIS: We're trying to get David Lynch but… MATT MAIELLARO: Old Spice money. I don't know if we can pull him into our fold. WAM: Will there be a Season 5 DVD? DAVE WILLIS: A season 5 DVD? Yeah. That's coming out in the fall. WAM: What do you want to tell people who aren't familiar with the show about this series and this movie? MATT MAIELLARO: It's a funny movie. Come see it. Let go of all your expectations of Hollywood and their formulas. Just come have fun. DAVE WILLIS: Ultimately if you read people that don't like it or… I mean I just had a flight and there were two movies that I just shut off in the middle of the third and I'm like 'is Hollywood that great that we can't make a movie, you know?' WAM: Would you like to say what movies you shut off? DAVE WILLIS: No, because I really want to work with those people. WAM: Are you shooting for a Best Animation Oscar? DAVE WILLIS: Absolutely. MATT MAIELLARO: Yes, oh yeah. DAVE WILLIS: The campaign starts today. MATT MAIELLARO: We've already written our acceptance speech. WAM: How did you decide who was going to do the voices? I know that you do Meatwad. When you were beginning this, did you decide 'oh, I think I can do this'? Was that a character you felt more attracted to? DAVE WILLIS: We did a table read of it and Matt would do Frylock and I would do Master Shake and Meatwad and then fortunately we found Dana who's just like this diamond in the rough, and he was just like a friend of a friend and man he just… MATT MAIELLARO: He didn't even call and audition. He just calls in 'Hey, this is Dana Snyder. I heard about this thing' and we're like, 'Hire him.' DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, because we would get these auditions and they'd just be like 'Bob Jenkins' and then you'd hear this awful audition and then other characters like Cyber Ghost and the Mooninites. I mean those were things where we were just like are we going to go through the process of telling someone it's a non-union show and I'm trying to cast it or are we just going to get in the booth, the two of us, and just do it. I like it that we get other people to work on the show because it feels zany if we're doing everything, but it allows us to ad lib within the limited confines of our script because we know the characters and we're able to do it. WAM: I just want to clarify one thing: Their mother is a multi-layered bean burrito? MATT MAIELLARO: Typical spoiler. WAM: Okay, I know that, but there's nobody in the movie playing their daddy. You obviously meant to leave it like that. MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, sequel. WAM: So we still don't know if it's the watermelon slice or the mad doctor? We don't know. DAVE WILLIS: We'll learn more about Walter in the next movie. WAM: I just wanted to know that I didn't miss something. MATT MAIELLARO: No, you were very clear on that one. WAM: How do you pitch this concept to a producer? How do you set them down and tell them? DAVE WILLIS: You don't. You start doing it and then you come back later and tell them that you're already starting to spend their money on it and do they like it? But you have to be there and have access to their money and the codes to the financial… MATT MAIELLARO: The trick is you get a job and you work your way up to writer/producer. DAVE WILLIS: Or you work in the library as long as you can get to those codes. WAM: Do the fans of this series scare you? DAVE WILLIS: Uh, not me. WAM: They obviously ask you questions about motivations and things like that. I was just wondering how you react to that. MATT MAIELLARO: With hyper lifting, with hyper-power lifting. DAVE WILLIS: We're pretty cool. As long as I'm not like mowing the lawn and seeing one in the bushes and go, 'hey!' MATT MAIELLARO: No, no, it hasn't gotten like that. You know in answer to your thing, we had actually, we worked there and we pitched it from within. We didn't know what we were doing pitching really. We had drawn pictures on and we're handing them out and it was just... Yeah, if we had to pitch that in a real world environment, I think we would have been shown the door pretty quickly. WAM: You didn't have to make anything up even though you were coming from the inside? MATT MAIELLARO: We had to make up a conversation. That's it. And with them pictures, you know. DAVE WILLIS: And we had to make up a back story. We knew they were going to say, 'Well where do they come from?' We were just like 'Lincoln, Egypt, Space.' MATT MAIELLARO: We wrote that in the time it would take to actually do the physical typing with your fingers. I mean there was no thought in that. That way we didn't lock ourselves in. DAVE WILLIS: Right. MATT MAIELLARO: We had the freedom to deviate. WAM: What is your process like then? Is somebody better at one thing than another? Better at dialogue or story or whatever? MATT MAIELLARO: No, it's just flip a coin and see who wants to hold the computer. DAVE WILLIS: We start talking and walking through it. Lately it's literally like two hours and we have a draft just because we know these people so well. WAM: So you're in the same room when you work? You're not like sending something to one another? MATT MAIELLARO: No, no, we work together. DAVE WILLIS: There's not a whole lot of… Everything goes in and I think it also goes in with the knowledge that we're going to mess around with it in the studio. MATT MAIELLARO: Oh yeah. DAVE WILLIS: It's not like the whole thing is ad libbed. I'd say it's 70-80% on the page. WAM: Do you guys ever get into any sort of creative fights or do you just surrender when somebody says 'I really want to do this.'? MATT MAIELLARO: No, we've debated about certain ideas but we ended up just doing them later. DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, there are moments where one of us might be crazier about something than another. Like I think there was one thing that I probably like begged Matt for about two years and finally he said, 'You know what, yeah, sure, we'll do that.' But that's one specific thing. I don't know. We generally get very happy on something before we even start writing. We'll come up with an idea and then it just works from there. WAM: So no fisticuffs in the writing room? DAVE WILLIS: No. MATT MAIELLARO: No. WAM: There must be some times when you are fighting all the time. You can't always be getting along? DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, we don't. WAM: Do you have a certain character on it that you like the most or that you like writing for the most? DAVE WILLIS: I don't. I think writing for all of them is fun. MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, I think so too. We've been doing these Carl blogs just because, but then they never get to the internet so it doesn't matter, because after Standards and Practices and Legal are done, it's like what's the point? But I've had more fun doing that than… DAVE WILLIS: Anything you've ever done in your life. MATT MAIELLARO: Maybe, maybe. WAM: Do you ever think about doing a MySpace page? MATT MAIELLARO: Well, that's what it's for. But the company's just like tied to that so… WAM: Does the whole show come from the depths of your mind or do you draw from real life experiences with somebody? Have you ever met a demonic sandwich before? MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, I think everything in the show has come from things that we've experienced in our lives. DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, they are totally connected. It's weird. It's like episodes involve real estate that sort of coincide with times that we were buying houses or getting married or having kids. There's a connection but it's not like… We don't sit down and say, 'you know I'm having a kid in three weeks, let's do a baby episode' but it does sort of … You know Ezekiel last year we were both suffering baby fatigue and it just sort of worked its way in through that, you know. WAM: So do you guys hate cats? DAVE WILLIS: No, we both have cats. We love cats. MATT MAIELLARO: Cats are all over our DVD's. WAM: Talk about your previous Comic-Con experiences and what the interaction is like with the fans. MATT MAIELLARO: We love Comic-Con. We love going to see the fans. We're glad that they're there. We love getting all the nerdy questions. It's really cool. We like them and we're going to marry every one of them. WAM: What about merchandising? Did you do the toys for this? MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, we started with a company that put out the first line and then they went away, so I think we're trying to work that out. WAM: It seems like toys would be ideal for this. DAVE WILLIS: This would be the perfect time to put that out, wouldn't it? MATT MAIELLARO: Uh huh. WAM: Will there be video games? DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, there's a video game and there's a sound track coming out. The sound track comes out right before the movie. It's for PS2 and PSP. Yeah, we're working with Midway on that. It's taken longer to do that than the movie. WAM: How much input do you have in the gaming? MATT MAIELLARO: Well we wrote the script for it and we try to control it, but we know that some of this is going to get out of our hands because it's out here and we're not out here. WAM: Is it more like 3D or inner space sort of games? MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, it's a little bit of everything actually. A lot of blood and killing. WAM: How did you get the idea for the penis episode? Did you have any thought about that getting on the air at all? DAVE WILLIS: Well it's one of those real life things. Someone had commented on my penis at a gas station and I said, 'You know that'd make a great episode.' MATT MAIELLARO: We just went over the top with it. We started that episode like two years ago. We didn't finish it because we knew it wasn't going to work, and then last year we ran out of ideas and we pulled that one out and said let's just do this. Screw it. DAVE WILLIS: We actually have the Palace of Dicks on the DVD Undicked or Redicked or whatever we call it. Dicks Unleashed. WAM: Is the Jerk Mechanic ever going to make another appearance? That's my favorite gag ever on the show. Meatwad sent for an estimate and the guy sent him back all this random bullshit like the hobbit inside your crank case is depressed and Frylock is like, 'Wait, is this what you wrote or is this how you heard it? Wow, what an assh*le!' I always wanted to see that guy come back. MATT MAIELLARO: That's a good idea. DAVE WILLIS: Yeah. MATT MAIELLARO: He's in the sequel we think. DAVE WILLIS: We may get you to sign something. WAM: Are you going to be soliciting celebrity voices? Are you going to have big name voices or do you care? MATT MAIELLARO: For the new episodes? WAM: For the sequel. MATT MAIELLARO: Oh yeah, of course we will. Bigger than Chris Kattan and Tom Cruise. DAVE WILLIS: Yeah, we had a series of emails that we sent to Tom Cruise's people about him appearing as Walter Melon. You know what? It would've been a great career move for him. He blew it. WAM: When does your new season start? DAVE WILLIS: We've written one, so probably December. MATT MAIELLARO: Not anytime soon. DAVE WILLIS: The fall. WAM: You don't have any deadline dates or anything? DAVE WILLIS: No, it's so unorthodox down there. There's no orders. There's no anything. It's like 'how many do you want to do?' 'How many can you do?' Because we're both doing other shows too, so then we kind of come together to do this. WAM: What other things are you working on? MATT MAIELLARO: Yeah, I'm doing a live action horror show for Adult Swim. It'll be kind of like Kolchak meets Evil Dead 2. WAM: What's it called? MATT MAIELLARO: Right now the working title is Stiff, so we're waiting to see 'cause I know there's some other titles out there that are similar. DAVE WILLIS: I have a live action thing that's called Sea to Shining Sea. It's sort of Charles Kuralt has gone insane and they have to replace him with this war correspondent and so he gets in an RV and hunts this guy down with a rocket launcher, and there's a 3D pilot that I'm working on right now. WAM: For television? Is that CGI?
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