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Summary
Please Do n’t Destroy : The Treasure of Foggy Mountainbrings the titularSaturday Night Livegroup to lifespan in a brand - new path , localize them in a hilarious full - length feature . The new Peacock master copy follows the trio as they assay to shift their lives by finding a invaluable treasure . The film star the Please Do n’t Destroy gang - Martin Herlihy , John Higgins , and Ben Marshall - alongsideThe Blackening ’s X Mayo , Hacks ' Meg Stalter , and Conan O’Brien in his first role play a character other than himself .
Martin , John , and Ben find themselves lost in life-time , all aimlessly work at Ben ’s father ’s memory Trout Plus . John advise they go on a quest for the gem of Foggy Mountain , use a occult compass they ’d found as children . However , they are n’t the only single in search of the hoarded wealth , with the group struggle park rangers , a unusual cult , and more on their journeying .
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Screen Rantinterviewed the film ’s director Paul Briganti to discuss bringing the belovedSNLgroup into a long - form comedy , working with Conan O’Brien , and the funniest mo on set .
Paul Briganti Talks Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Screen Rant : I ’d screw to hear a little routine about how you first came onto this labor . I know obviously you have a farseeing history withSNLand comedy cinema , but were you a part of this one from the very beginning or did you follow in a small later ?
Paul Briganti : I came in a petty later . So before they got hired at SNL , they had this project set up at Universal . They wrote the first draught of the script and Judd was attached to produce it . And then they got hired at SNL and then I got to have intercourse them . We overlapped for three months or so . I knew I was leave behind , I was going to leave the show . I ’d been there for five and a half years and it just feel like fourth dimension .
But I knew I was leaving and I was in this weird windowpane of time where I know I was leave , I was like , " I require to try something experimental or whatever , something . " It ’s always fun to try on something like that at SNL , especially if you ’ve been there for a while and you ’re just like , " I do n’t have it away , allow ’s see what work or what does n’t . " And they were extremely excited to render anything .
So we film a dyad of videos together and at first there was no official arithmetic mean for them to be on the show ; they were hired as author . But then we shoot a duet of things and I think they seemed to do work and they were puzzle out , and people were wish them . So they put one on the show and when that worked they kept doing it . So after we had done a duo , they had one with Taylor Swift and Pete , the Three Sad Virgins thing , which was really fun . And that was one of the last things I did there , which was one of the most fun weeks there . And that was when they were like , " We have this movie set up at Universal . We ’re front for a director , would you be interested in read it ? " And I was like , " Of course , I ’d love to . "
And I read it and it was unlike from what it ended up being , evidently as many other movies . But it was really funny and it was just such a great - I just get laid them so much and I was aroused to work with them and Judd and everyone , Jimmy Miller . So it was a very exciting estimate to just give yourself over to and to start working on .
For a comedy , this film has a larger than usual amount of fight choreography and stunts ; there ’s a raft of big - scale setting like that . What was it like ordinate those ?
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Paul Briganti : Yeah . It is nice of you to say that because with a lot of comedies , I feel like they do n’t really do stuff like that and they do n’t really do things that are participating and agitate . So it was exciting to keep that going and have it moving in that way . And they did a really good line of work . Monique [ Ganderton ] was our brain of stunts . She also did 2nd unit theatre director , she ’s really amazing . And she took the guys under her wing , and Meg Stalter and X Mayo , and really trained them .
And they did stunt training every day , it was kind of intense . She ’s done Marvel stuff , so she have intercourse the bootcamp and what to do and how to design all that . So she was really corking in that and really accommodating in what we need . The biggest , the hardest matter , or the most demanding , was probably the wing suit stuff . Ben , he was literally up 30 fundament in the air in the blistering verbatim Dominicus in Charlotte . And in the blue screenland when they ’re flying and clobber , that was really vivid and it was really fun , but time - consuming . And you just have to really get it good and be safe .
And apparently they ’re in top physical form , these guys . They ’re fundamentally like Dwayne Johnson . [ Laughs ] So they were excited about it , but it was definitely a learning experience for all of us to do something like that , which is what made it so much more fun .
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And another thing I love about this movie : I ’m a huge Conan O’Brien fan , and this was the first time that he play a case that was n’t Conan O’Brien . What was it like working with him in a different context than he ’s usually working ?
Paul Briganti : It was great . I have in mind , it was kind of nice because I think he was just as overwhelmed as I was , or just as excited and nervous because he was outside of his comfortableness geographical zone a little mo . And we were too ; this is our first enceinte movie , so that was really courteous .
I had a conversation with him before he agreed to do it and it was an interesting conversation because I suppose I was pitching him on the moving picture and trying to get him to do it , but I understand that he was more trying to pitch himself . He was like , " Yeah , I desire I can do it . I desire I can do a good job . " It was exonerated that he wanted to make certain that we felt good about have him do it . And we were like , " Of of course . What are you talk about ? We ’re obsessed with you . Please work with us . "
And a rough-cut affair with people I really wish knead with is they never remember that they ’re the best at something , even if they are . They never kind of have an self-importance ; they ’re always trying to get well , they ’re always trying to make their talents and accomplishment . So that ’s how he approached it . He was like , " This is a young skill that I ’m try on to learn . " It ’s learning the piano or something at middle - aged . So it was very , very humbling and it was so funny . He was so good .
I mean , he is a writer and he ’s a performer , so just having him in that scene when he ’s with Ben and he ’s assay to shift him stuff , there was so many things that were just so comic , that were just micturate us express joy so firmly because he just was coming up with all these things off the top of his head . It was just such a dreaming to do it .
In terms of behind - the - scenes moments in cosmopolitan , are there any scenes that cling out to you as particularly hard to get through because people keep breaking ?
Paul Briganti : Yeah , there was one scene , the scene where John first hawk them on the treasure thing when he is wearing a bathrobe .
With all the telecasting of Megan Fox .
Paul Briganti : Yeah , yeah . [ Laughs ] There were so many jest in that that we just switch off because we learned that you just require to get to the journey at that point . Once you larn there ’s an adventure behind the door figure one , you just want to open that door . So there were so many queer bit that we terminate up cutting that were just cause us laugh so hard .
There ’s this one thing at the goal that we had to cut that I really love , where John is basically pouring his heart out to the guys . He ’s like , " hombre , I experience to be honest with you , I ’m really having a hard clip right now . " And then Ben and Martin are just like , " Yeah , yeah . No , that ’s clear . Yeah , we can all … " [ Laughs ] He just preserve going . He ’s like , " I ’m not certain if it ’s just in my head or not . " And the guys were like , " No , no , it ’s not in your head , you ’re losing it . " And it was just such a funny moment and it was making us laugh so hard . And John was being so funny in the bathrobe , just being a big baby form of guy .
And we were break so many takes , me and the other citizenry on bent , because it was just so rum . They would laugh in a take and then I would get mad at them for laughing , then I would laugh and they would get insane at me . But that ’s the nifty matter with working with a group that is so tidy and supportive as they are . Because they all want John to be funny , John want them to be , they all get excite when the other person has fishy moments .
And you cite Conan coming up with stuff on the place for that scene with Ben . In worldwide , was there a circle of extemporisation on set ?
Paul Briganti : Yeah , there was a gross ton , there was a net ton . We had the main handwriting pages , which were a couple of Page , and we ’d have another whole set of pages that were alts and different jokes that we had written . And there was a whole other hardening of thing that mass would say on circle that they would extemporise . Because that ’s always like a charming - the whole thing is , hopefully you prepare as much as potential , but hopefully you do n’t have to apply any of your stuff that you gear up because everything will be so effective on set .
So that was a big thing . Everyone was just improvising so many things . Meg Stalter , she has this gift of improvise things . There ’s that thing in improv where you go A to C or something instead of A to B ; she would do A to T or X or something . It was just like , " Where would you ever think of something like that ? " And that was something that was so funny .
She came up with that line when they ’re in the tent and they ’re having this romantic journeying together , she came up with that thing of , " It makes me really sad to opine that my nanna will never make out with anyone ever again . " [ Laughs ] That was just something she articulate , like in reality said , that it makes her lamentable . And it was like this window into her personality that was so funny , and just the beautiful , unique originality of her as a performer .
About Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
In PLEASE DON’T DESTROY : THE hoarded wealth OF FOGGY MOUNTAIN , John Goodman narrates the adventure of Ben , Martin , and John , three childhood friends reverse deadbeat co - worker , who fend off hairless bears , desperate park ranger ( Meg Stalter and X Mayo ) and a hypocritical furore loss leader ( Bowen Yang ) in the hopes of finding a priceless hoarded wealth , only to disclose that finding the treasure is the easiest part of their journeying . Oh , and Conan O’Brien act Ben ’s dad in it . bring forth by Judd Apatow ( Superbad ) and Jimmy Miller ( Bad Teacher ) , the film is write , executive director produced by , and star Martin Herlihy , John Higgins , and Ben Marshall — aka the Please Do n’t destruct guy — and directed by Paul Briganti ( Saturday Night Live ) .
Please Do n’t ruin : The Treasure of Foggy Mountain is streaming now on Peacock .
