‘Pizza Movie’ Filmmakers BriTANick Took a Page Out of the ‘Marty Supreme’ Playbook to Promote Their Hulu Release
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The duo saw Timothée Chalamet's stunt atop the Sphere and concocted a much lower-key version of that for stars Gaten Matarazzo and Sean Giambrone.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains spoilers for Pizza Movie .] Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney , the creative duo known as BriTANick , are keenly aware that a movie called Pizza Movie is not the most compelling title for their now well-received feature directorial debut. The former SNL writers hemmed and hawed over what to name their “stoner comedy for theater kids” starring Stranger Things ’ Gaten Matarazzo , until the internal working title of Untitled Pizza Movie officially became Pizza Movie . It’s weirdly on-brand for the Atlanta natives and NYU classmates considering they also struggled to name their sketch comedy partnership two decades ago. They settled on the fusion of Brian, Nick and the word Titanic. (If you’re a devout reader of my byline, then you might recognize Nick from one of the 21st century’s most remarkably honest images .) Related Stories TV Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo Join Finn Wolfhard's 'Saturday Night Live' Monologue to Commemorate End of 'Stranger Things' Movies Samara Weaving Is Ready for Her Busiest Year Yet The title only endeared itself to Kocher and McElhaney when they wrote a joke about it that pays off in the most unexpected way. I won’t give the game away here, but they do get into the weeds of it during the subsequent Q&A. “We had all these polls we’d send out to our friends, and there was no unanimous title idea that everyone loved,” McElhaney tells The Hollywood Reporter . “I remember shouting, ‘We cannot call this Pizza Movie ! That is the worst title in the world.’ And I still do feel that way. But then we added the joke in the movie. Now I deeply love it because it is all the setup for this punchline 83 minutes into the movie,” Kocher adds. Pizza Movie chronicles the hallucinatory misadventures o...
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