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 state of affairs 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 buddies that aren’t in relationships, which then leads him down a spiraling highway of confusion,” Kelly tells POPSUGAR. “It was an actual state of affairs that occurred. I requested Mod if he needed to write down a film as a result of I could not consider every other approach to categorical my very own spiral.”
In line with Solar, the film additionally has to do with the “complete ideology of selecting between love and your profession” and deciding which is in the end extra necessary. “I feel 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, after all, comes as no shock, provided that the 2 are buddies in actual life and have beforehand labored on music collectively. Nevertheless, Solar says engaged on a film collectively felt rather more critical. “It felt like this completely different panorama allowed us to only 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 arms of different folks was good. It was a pleasant change of surroundings. While you’re making your personal artwork, you are in control of it. Giving it to another person is such a visit — writing a line and listening to another person recite it, it was an entire completely different type of journey.”
Along with bringing the laughs, “Good Mourning” is full of movie star appearances. From Dove Cameron and Pete Davidson to Megan Fox and Whitney Cummings, it looks as if nearly 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 means of a cellphone name that me or Kells made. We pitched them the film, and we just about wrote the half with these folks in thoughts,” Solar reveals. In line with MGK, the one casting determination that got here right down to the wire was Cummings’s position as London’s agent, Maxine. “That was the one individual we did not speak to immediately . . . her and Dennis Rodman, the 2 thriller gamers that ended up coming and slam-dunking when sport time began.”
Within the movie, there is a scene the place London and his buddies 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 had been like, ‘It is a stoner film, so the smoke [has] obtained to be epic,'” Kelly says. “We had been smoking it out one time, and so they had been constructive they shut all of the sprinklers off in the home, however there was one which was left that they did not flip off. The hearth alarm went off, and this factor rained down on all of the cameras and the lights and the whole lot.”
Just like “Pineapple Categorical,” “Good Mourning” is only a hilarious, light-hearted film to take pleasure in and chuckle together with. Solar and MGK had been “sick and uninterested in old-school Hollywood making an attempt to narrate to the subsequent era with compelled 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 chuckle once more and chuckle 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 Might 20.
