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Bryan Cranston and James Franco were the only two guys I ever wanted for the parts

James Franco, Zoey Deutch, Bryan Cranston, Megan Mullally and Griffin Gluck

What’s the history behind this project? JOHN HAMBURG: There was a story that Shawn Levy and Dan Levine, the producers, sent to me of a tech mogul who falls in love with a woman from a normal background, and conflict ensues once her family comes into the picture. The details of the story were quite different from where we ended up in Why Him? , but the concept spoke to me. Having worked on Meet the Parents and the two sequels, I knew that territory, but I thought that the world had changed a lot since we made the first Meet the Parents , in that, in essence, the kids were in charge now whereas back then, the grown-ups seemed to have had all the power.

moment and interesting and that there could be a lot of comic fireworks, as well. At that point, I had worked on several scripts with my co-writer, Ian Helfer, and together, he and I developed the premise Shawn and Dan brought to me, into our own story. The movie seems perfectly cast.Were Bryan Cranston and James Franco your first choices? Absolutely. Bryan Cranston and James Franco were the only two guys I ever wanted for the parts. Bryan, I had known his comedy from Malcolm in the Middle , and of course, like everybody else, was obsessed with Breaking Bad , and thought it was the greatest performance I’d ever seen, in anything. I like making movies with actors

Director John Hamburg

I thought it would be interesting to explore those power dynamics, because it’s still the idea of a young woman having her first serious boyfriend and having that nervousness of introducing him to her family. And the family going into this foreign world, which is Silicon Valley, in this case. That felt very of the

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