You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Rahzel, “the human beatbox,” from The Roots laced throughout the picture. Queens of<br />
the Stone Age also provided the heavy beats needed to, according to the director, “rock<br />
hard, and gave us some great score. I was blown away by their spirit, energy and sound.”<br />
****<br />
Production wrapped in late spring 2005, the cast and crew reflected on the<br />
experience of filming a very dark comedy in a very dark place. Arnett echoes his fellow<br />
actors’ sentiments. “I realize that, ultimately, I have no business being in prison. You<br />
realize that when you first come into prison, you will be awed by the size of it, and that<br />
will bring you down as a person. When you go into a cell and you shoot a scene, you’re<br />
in there all day. Guys spend 25, 30, 40 or more years in there…what an incredible thing<br />
that is, and how difficult would that be?”<br />
Barry himself, Chi McBride, dryly notes, “Everybody knows how funny prison is.<br />
You hear guys all the time, ‘I could leave the penitentiary anytime I want to, man, but<br />
I’m having such a good time.’”<br />
With a comment as darkly sarcastic (and true to form) as the film itself, Abraham<br />
concludes, “We realize that a lot of us making movies are fairly privileged. Maybe we<br />
should have spent time in prison…but we haven’t.” Yet.<br />
Carsey-Werner Films Presents a Strike Entertainment Production: Let’s Go To<br />
Prison, starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride. Casting for the film is by<br />
Richard Hicks, CSA and David Rubin, CSA. Music supervisors are G. Marq Roswell<br />
and Adam Swart. The music for the film is by Alan Elliott. Let’s Go To Prison’s editor<br />
is Eric L. Beason, ACE; production designer is John Paino. The director of photography<br />
is Ramsey Nickell. Executive producers for the film are Debra Grieco Bergman, Armyan<br />
Bernstein, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach. The film is produced by<br />
Marc Abraham, Matt Berenson and Paul Young. It is written by Robert Ben Garant &<br />
Thomas Lennon & Michael Patrick Jann and based on the book “You Are Going To<br />
Prison” by Jim Hogshire. Let’s Go To Prison is directed by Bob Odenkirk. ©2006<br />
Universal Studios. http://www.letsgotoprison.com
Change language