Machine Gun Kelly (née Colson Baker) and Mod Solar are making each their screenwriting and directorial debuts with their upcoming stoner comedy, “Good Mourning.” The movie follows MGK’s movie-star character London as he receives a breakup textual content from his girlfriend, April (Becky G), on the identical day he is scheduled to have crucial assembly of his profession.
“The idea got here to us by way of the universe giving me the precise scenario that London encounters within the film, which is [getting] a textual content that he reads as a breakup textual content after which [proceeding] to get relationship recommendation from the entire pals that aren’t in relationships, which then leads him down a spiraling street of confusion,” Kelly tells POPSUGAR. “It was an actual scenario that occurred. I requested Mod if he needed to jot down a film as a result of I could not consider another strategy to categorical my very own spiral.”
In accordance with Solar, the film additionally has to do with the “entire ideology of selecting between love and your profession” and deciding which is finally extra vital. “I believe me and Kells are each so work oriented, [but] we additionally understand that on the finish of the day, love might be crucial factor to us.”
Their collaboration, in fact, comes as no shock, provided that the 2 are pals in actual life and have beforehand labored on music collectively. Nevertheless, Solar says engaged on a film collectively felt far more critical. “It felt like this totally different panorama allowed us to simply flex a special muscle. It actually was enjoyable as a result of it felt like a job,” he explains. “Additionally, placing your artwork within the palms of different individuals was good. It was a pleasant change of surroundings. Once you’re making your individual artwork, you are answerable for it. Giving it to another person is such a visit — writing a line and listening to another person recite it, it was an entire totally different type of journey.”
Along with bringing the laughs, “Good Mourning” is filled with superstar appearances. From Dove Cameron and Pete Davidson to Megan Fox and Whitney Cummings, it looks as if virtually everybody you’ll be able to consider is in it. “We had a casting director, and far like to that individual, however just about each individual forged was by a cellphone name that me or Kells made. We pitched them the film, and we just about wrote the half with these individuals in thoughts,” Solar reveals. In accordance with MGK, the one casting resolution that got here all the way down to the wire was Cummings’s position as London’s agent, Maxine. “That was the one individual we did not speak to straight . . . her and Dennis Rodman, the 2 thriller gamers that ended up coming and slam-dunking when recreation time began.”
Within the movie, there is a scene the place London and his pals smoke a bunch of weed to attempt to save him from making issues worse with April. Apparently, issues obtained so intense that filming for that particular scene needed to be damaged up into two days. “We have been like, ‘It is a stoner film, so the smoke [has] obtained to be epic,'” Kelly says. “We have been smoking it out one time, they usually have been optimistic they shut all of the sprinklers off in the home, however there was one which was left that they did not flip off. The fireplace alarm went off, and this factor rained down on all of the cameras and the lights and every thing.”
Just like “Pineapple Categorical,” “Good Mourning” is only a hilarious, light-hearted film to get pleasure from and snigger together with. Solar and MGK have been “sick and uninterested in old-school Hollywood attempting to narrate to the subsequent technology with pressured jokes and compelled dialogues,” in order that’s how the comedy got here to be. “We’re simply lacking the laughs,” Kelly provides. “We have to snigger once more and snigger at one thing that is not like, ‘I would like 5 levels to grasp what the joke is.'”
“Good Mourning” premieres in theaters and on TVOD on Could 20.
