Written by Johnny Wickham and Mike CapesWe’ve been writing comedy together and making each other laugh for the better part of 20 years now, so getting to have an idea as fun and as funny as The Invisible Raptor as our first feature length comedy script to get off the ground was a dream come true. We met for the first time in the office of comedy legend Jerry Zucker, not for a meeting with him, rather, we just had access to the office where he worked and had a sketch comedy writing group meet after hours there. This meeting sparked a creative partnership that allowed us to create a comedic voice that we think really stands out in The Invisible Raptor. The Invisible Raptor We wrote The Invisible Raptor over the course of about six weeks in the Spring of 2020 (mostly over zoom) when another invisible threat was endangering our safety. Like that threat, a lot of scientific research went into this one, too. Our scientific explanations range from the creation of our creature (Chance, The Raptor) to simply “did you see Jurassic Park? We did that”. Then the decision to explain its invisibility as “did you see The Invisible Man?” A lot of painstaking scientific research went into the writing process to get it all right. We were pretty adamant about that. We took it very seriously.Creating this raptor led us to debate a wide range of scientific topics, like: Would an invisible raptor's poop be visible?...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 27 August, 2024