It's a big year for David Cross. In addition the the long-awaited return of Arrested Development (coming to Netflix with 15 new episodes May 26th), he has a book of unproduced scripts he wrote with Bob Odenkirk out this fall and his new movie It's a Disaster opens in select theaters today and is available on VOD. I recently had the chance to talk to Cross about what it was like to get back into character as Tobias Fünke, the movies he and Bob Odenkirk wrote together that were never made, and how he wishes there were more movies like It's a Disaster:
Earlier this week, The Daily Mail unearthed a secret government plan from the 1950s that involved using a nuclear bomb to detonate the moon in order to intimidate the Soviet Union, which sounds suspiciously similar to a well-known Mr. Show sketch from 1997, about NASA blowing up the moon for no reason. The Daily Mail reports that during the height of The Cold War, the U.S. military used calculations from astronomer Carl Sagan to plan to fire a missile at the moon, only to understandably abandon said plans. Were Bob Odenkirk and David Cross aware of this secret Cold War operation decades prior to it going public? I'm [...]
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You know comedian, actress, musician and writer Karen Kilgariff (@KarenKilgariff) from Mr. Show, [...]
Bob Odenkirk will be directing and starring in Girlfriends Day with David Cross, Bryan Cranston, Amber Tamblyn, David Koechner, and Fred Armisen. Odenkirk also wrote the film with former Mr. Show writer Eric Hoffmam. This opportunity is a big deal for Odenkirk, whose last two features The Brothers Solomon and Let's Go to Prison performed so poorly that he speculated a couple years ago in And Here's The Kicker (the current Splitsider Comedy Book Club book) that he was in "directors jail" and that he'd have to earn back some clout to be able to work on a feature again. No word yet on what the plot [...]
This afternoon will see a Reddit AMA from Mr. Bob Odenkirk. Start preparing your questions about Mr. Show, SNL, and what it's like to have a last name that rhymes with "Snowed-in Jerk." Or "Floatin' Quirk." Or "Bowdoin Smirk." (Those Bowdoin College kids are so smug, everyone knows that.)
