Phil Lord and Chris Miller on ‘The Afterparty’ and dynamics of their partnership

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaking team Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been making movies together for years. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “21 Jump Street,” and “The Lego Movie” are just some of their many credits. In 2017 they were fired from the Star Wars spinoff movie “Solo,” but bounced back with an Oscar for Best Animated Feature with “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” And they’re currently working on the two sequels for that. Meanwhile, they’ve just dropped the murder-mystery spoof “The Afterparty” on Apple TV+. Chris Miller admits it’s a lot. “The trick is not to sleep,” Miller says. “There were days when we were shooting ‘The Afterparty’ where — I have pictures of Phil in a field with a laptop, rewriting a scene for ‘Spider-Verse.’ … That’s the kind of balancing act we have to do to try and make these things be as good as they can be.”

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:05.2	Phil Lord and Chris Miller are the busy filmmaking team behind 21 Jump Street, the Lego
0:10.3	movie, and more.
0:11.9	They won an Oscar for Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, and they've got two more installments
0:16.5	on the way.
0:17.5	Their latest is the murder mystery spoof the after party on Apple TV Plus.
0:21.9	The trick is to not sleep. That's the trick number one. I mean, there were days while we
0:27.3	were shooting after party where, you know, I have lots of pictures of Phil in a field with a laptop
0:34.3	like rewriting a scene for Spider-verse while we were shooting a scene and then
0:40.4	typing up to pitch a joke in the middle and then giving me the scene at the end of the day to read
0:46.8	when I got home. Chris Miller and Phil Lord somehow find the time to explain how they decide
0:52.2	who does what. And they reflect on the impact of their
0:55.2	experience on solo. In 2017, the duo was fired from directing the Star Wars spinoff when
1:01.8	filming was well underway. But before that, we banter. Stick around. It's the business from
1:07.3	KCRW.
1:16.6	Hi, I'm joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany.
1:17.1	Hello, Matt.
1:17.7	Hi there.
1:23.7	So, Matt, obviously the story, the top story of the week is the resignation of Jeff Zucker as the head of CNN.
1:26.6	This is an earthquake in the media world.
1:29.6	Jeff Zucker has had a long career. He was at NBC before he was at CNN. CNN. This is an earthquake in the media world. Jeff Zucker has had a long career. He was at NBC before he was at CNN. It was disclosed that he had a relationship with a woman named Alison Gulles,
1:36.4	who was a high-level executive at both NBC when he was there and CNN, subsequently. And this came out
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