TIM HEIDECKER FOR DA SERIES
Thrillist: Mister America builds on seven years of a series and its spinoffs. How did you approach bringing in all of this archival material to help pad the story for casual On Cinema fans, or non-fans, versus having Mister America be a standalone story? At what point did you cut yourself off from including something about the Delgados or other arcs within On Cinema?Įric Notarnicola: When we decided to make this mock documentary, we knew that we would have an opportunity to open it up to people that were not necessarily fans of the On Cinema universe, and didn't know anything about it. I'll give it five bags of popcorn, and a Blu-Ray DVD of Ant-Man (which Turkington starred in as Scott Lang's Baskin-Robbins manager) - for the fans.Īhead of its October 9 release, Thrillist spoke with Notarnicola over the phone to talk about making a feature-length extension of On Cinema, why bad reviews from critics don't really matter, vaping, and having the best fan community in comedy. Through its hour-and-a-half runtime, Mister America traces the minutiae of collecting enough signatures to get Heidecker, perpetually drinking Bud Lite while Newman sips on comically overpoured glasses of red wine, on the ballot, with Turkington always lurking nearby.
TIM HEIDECKER FOR DA TRIAL
There are far too many to name here, but most relevant to Mister America is Heidecker's douchey rock n' roll persona who starts a band named DKR, gets into mixing his own vaping juices, and starts the Electric Sun Desert Music Festival, where he sells these vape rigs, which kill a bunch of people, leading to his next turn as a bombastic lawyer who represents himself in the five-hour courtroom special The Trial where he was being tried for manslaughter in San Bernardino County and was acquitted due to a mistrial.ĭon't worry, though: Mister America is diligent in explaining exactly what you need to know to "get" the run for the DA's office against incumbent Vincent Rosetti (Don Pecchia), who unsuccessfully prosecuted Heidecker, now with a personal vendetta against Rosetti to clean out the "rat problem." Styled as a documentary, of course, the film presents itself made by "rookie" director Josh Lorton - who is actually the longtime director of On Cinema and its various iterations since 2013, Eric Notarnicola, who was also a writer and editor on Nathan for You, and wrote for Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series Who Is America? - following Heidecker's campaign, which is being run by Toni Newman (Terri Parks), the juror responsible for the Electric Sun Desert mistrial.
TIM HEIDECKER FOR DA MOVIE
In between then and now, the pair of movie reviewers, awarding practically every film they've talked about on the show "five bags of popcorn" and maybe an extra flourish, have been through a lot, their antagonism for each other roiling with each gaffe and "phase" the opportunistic Heidecker involves himself in. Since then, On Cinema has ballooned into an extended universe that gives Marvel a run for its money. Heidecker and Turkington have played dementedly solipsistic versions of themselves - and sometimes characters of those characters in, say, the spoof spy series Decker - since 2011's The Comedy, directed by Rick Alverson, killing time in between takes by recording the earliest podcast episodes. How did this campaign come to be? Well: Years and years of On Cinema, the podcast and the series and its segments and Oscar specials, and its spinoff properties built to this moment.
But anyone who appreciates off-beat comedies or anything that's run late night on Adult Swim (including Heidecker's earlier long-running series Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!) will have an easy time keeping up with the deadpan jokes as Heidecker stumbles through a thoroughly shitty campaign for an office he has absolutely no qualifications to hold. If you are not a "fan," have never heard of Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkingon's Adult Swim movie review series On Cinema at the Cinema, and expect Mister America to be a breezy mockumentary about Heidecker's fake run for the San Bernardino District Attorney's office, this is probably not the film for you. Mister America was made for fans, on a shoestring budget in three days.
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