The producers saw the pilot episode for The Ben Stiller Show (1992) and approached Ben Stiller to direct it, but not act in it. He signed on to direct in 1992 and worked with Helen Childress for nine to ten months developing the script. Initially, Childress, working with executive producer Stacey Sher, had figured out the characters of Lelaina Pierce and Troy Dyer, but could not come up with a credible character to complete the love triangle. Stiller suggested that he could play that third person. As a result, the Michael character changed from a 35-year-old advertising executive trying to market Japanese candy bars in America to a television executive in his twenties. They also changed the structure of this movie. Originally, Vickie Miner, Sammy Gray, and Troy Dyer had more fleshed out storylines, but Stiller felt that he could not tell them fully and decided to focus on the relationship between Lelaina and Troy.

Film

Nessun dato in archivio