FILM · 2016
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
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- #001
The real-life Mike Stangle and Dave Stangle have small roles in the scene where cousin Terry offers to be the middle of a sandwich between two men passing by.
- #002
In an interview with Complex Pop Culture, actress Sugar Lyn Beard said of filming the massage scene with actor Kumail Nanjiani: "We were naked together for so long and as you can see it's not digital — our asses are rubbing together. But he was a total professional. He had a pouch, a little bag that went over his penis, and it kept sliding a lot, so sometimes the bag would come loose. By the eighth hour, who cared! Let it go. Go! And Kumail wasn't doing that, he was very professional, unlike me. 'Just rub your dick on my back, what do I care?' But I laughed so much that day. Normally I'm pretty good at holding it together, but that day I couldn't. Thank God I have orgasm convulsions in that scene because laughing really worked while I was underneath him."
- #003
Sugar Lyn Beard tried to prank people by walking around the hotel in ATV injury makeup to get a reaction. The prank backfired when people tried to take her to a doctor despite her insistence that the injury was fake. A complaint was filed and she even received a phone call from a studio executive warning her about the prank.
- #004
After learning he had secured the role, Adam Devine underwent special training to gain muscle in order to resemble Zac Efron's brother. During filming the two regularly worked out together, a strategy that also strengthened their brotherly bond.
- #005
Mike and Dave's Craigslist ad received about 6,000 responses.
- #006
According to the Times Union website, the real-life Stangle brothers' Craigslist ad "... went viral, landed them on the Today (1952) show and generated such excitement that the brothers soon found themselves with a book and film deal, a possibility hinted at in the original post." The Stangles said: "If this happens (we estimate the odds at 85%) we refuse to let Ashton Kutcher play either of our characters, but we will consider him for a supporting role."
- #007
The vacation hotel in Hawaii, Turtle Bay Resort, is the same hotel as the one in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008).
- #008
The rights to the real-life Mike Stangle and Dave Stangle's wedding-date story were sold to the 20th Century Fox studio for a seven-figure sum.
- #009
T. J. Miller was offered a role in the film but turned it down to make Deadpool (2016) instead.
- #010
Anna Kendrick used a stand-in for her nude scene.
- #011
In a 2014 sketch made to promote Neighbors (2014), Zac Efron tells Adam Devine they could be brothers. In this film they play brothers.
- #012
It was filmed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
- #013
In an interview with the show-business trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, CAA agent Michelle Weiner said: "It was clear they [the real Mike and Dave she spoke with on the phone] were great characters and a great source of story. They met exaggeration. They were smart and funny. They had all the comedy and heart you need for the start of a great story."
- #014
Actor Adam Devine suffered food poisoning at one point during the main shoot in Hawaii.
- #015
The vacation hotel seen in Hawaii in the film was Turtle Bay Resort. It was where the main cast and crew stayed while the film was being made.
- #016
Adam Devine and Zac Efron sing the song at the end of the title sequence.
- #017
It is the first feature film directed by director Jake Szymanski.
- #018
According to the show-business trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, the real-life "Mike and Dave Stangle signed a film and book deal thanks to their friend Jay Barbeau, who was an intern at CAA. It all began when he saw their viral ad on Craigslist. After the Stangle brothers' ad went viral in 2013 and began drawing media attention, Barbeau, who now works in CAA's sports department, brought their story to the attention of his CAA agent friends; Michelle Weiner. CAA helped the Stangles sell the life rights to Fox for a film inspired by their own story. Shortly afterward, CAA also helped the Stangles land a book deal with Gallery for a book about their misadventures."
- #019
The name engraved on the competition trophy was "STANGLE CHAMPS".
- #020
The New York restaurant interior called "Sake Bombers", where the girls work, was actually filmed at the Oahu restaurant "Shokudo".
- #021
This was the third comedy feature film starring Zac Efron to be released in 2016. His first release that year was Dirty Grandpa (2016), and his second was Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016).
- #022
The film shares a similar plot with the 2006 New Zealand film "Sione's Wedding".
- #023
The real-life Mike Stangle and Dave Stangle posted their ad on Craigslist for wedding dates in 2013.
- #024
This is the second film in which Aubrey Plaza simulates sex with her co-star before the title sequence ends. In Dirty Grandpa (2016) it was with Robert De Niro, and in this film it is with Adam Devine.
- #025
Principal photography for this film lasted roughly two to three-quarters of a month, from the end of May 2015 to the middle of August of the same year.
- #026
Anna Kendrick's character, like her character in Mr. Right (2015), acts like a T-Rex during a Jurassic Park jeep tour.
- #027
Although this film contains no real reference to the Pitch Perfect films, Jeanie and Eric perform a clapping routine before they kiss (a nod to Beca's "Cups" in Pitch Perfect (2012)), and Tatiana, Alice, Dave and Mike sing "This is How We Do It" (one of the songs from the Laser Ninja Dragon League in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)). Adam Devine (Mike) and Anna Kendrick (Alice) appeared in the first two Pitch Perfect films (though Kendrick reprised her role in Pitch Perfect 3 (2017), Devine did not).
- #028
Branscombe Richmond, an actor from Lorenzo Lamas's series Renegade (1992), appears briefly as a Barbecue Chef shortly before the wedding scene.
- #029
Adam Devine is at least six years older than his character Mike.
- #030
Anna Kendrick and Sugar Lyn Beard had previously appeared together in 50/50 (2011).
- #031
In some regions the film was released on the same day as The Legend of Tarzan (2016). The first Daily Mail article promoting Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016), published on 17 June 2015, compared star Zac Efron to the Tarzan character in its headline: "He's a real-life Tarzan! Zac Efron flexes his incredibly rippling muscles as he swings through the jungle with co-star Aubrey Plaza". Photos of both Efron and his co-star Adam Devine were taken as they swung on ropes over a lake in Hawaii, as Tarzan knows well.
- #032
One of the adult films mentioned, whose title is a parody of The Godfather (1972), was called "The Rodfather".
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