Voice Actor Eric Bauza and Director Peter Browngardt talk to The Inside Reel about intention, approach, style and thematics in regards to their new animated Looney Tunes movie: "The Day The Earth Blew Up," from Ketchup Entertainment.
00:00We have to act fast, and there's only one person that can do the job, Daffy Duck.
00:18Daffy?
00:19Oh no, not the duck!
00:21The duck?
00:22That's right, the duck.
00:25You gotta be kidding me, who greenlit this garbage?
00:27Who's there?
00:34Get it off me, get it off me, get it off me, get it off me!
00:37Oh, is it over?
00:41Doing a Looney Tunes movie, especially original, with what you guys are doing, going off of Looney Tunes, you know, the cartoons,
00:48could you talk about why Peter First, why this story?
00:52Because it has so many different possibilities visually, and obviously in an audio sort of element for you, Eric, between Porky and Daffy, same thing.
01:03But if you can each talk about that from that perspective and pushing that boundary.
01:06Sure, when asked about if I had any ideas or thoughts on how to make or to pitch a Looney Tunes feature, Porky and Daffy came to mind first for me because of their history as a pairing,
01:22and their history as playing in sort of genre pictures or genre roles like Duck Dodgers or Dduce You Say, Rocket Squad, they played parts and played in genre, film genre, like either film noir or sci-fi adventure or whatever.
01:39So I knew those were the elements I wanted to work with, and I love classic sci-fi horror films, or sci-fi, not horror, horror two films, horror two, but sci-fi films from the 50s.
01:50And I went in and pitched the film as a Ed Wood Looney Tunes movie, and I just know that it was a good opportunity for a satirization, to satirize a genre.
02:01And also, when you're making projects and you're doing big things like this, or taking years of your life to produce something, you've got to really be wanting to dig in and put the time in to make something special and love what you're doing or love the genre you're in.
02:17So that was the idea behind it.
02:21For generations, you laughed with them.
02:26You cried with them.
02:28And watched them grow.
02:29In 2025, they're coming to the big screen like never before.
02:36Uh, Daffy.
02:36Oh, sorry.
02:49I barely even know you.
02:53We're not afraid of nothing.
02:57What?
02:58Here's the script.
02:59Catch up on your own.
03:00Just as Pete said, in the history of these famous characters, Roadrunner and Coyote, Sylvester, Tweety, Bugs Bunny voices everyone, really, Elmer, Yosemite, even Daffy.
03:16He's a stinker.
03:17I always loved seeing the Porky and Daffy shorts.
03:22Because for me, I would always start that short by saying, oh, poor Porky.
03:27Like, how is he going to suffer today at the hands of Daffy?
03:29And, you know, to know that they were going to be together in a feature film, and when I got the call from Pete to play them both, it was an easy decision to make.
03:41Um, and to know that it was the first, uh, and to know that it was the first stand-alone Looney Tunes movie without the help of AI or professional basketball players, uh, I had to say yes.
03:54I better wake up Daffy.
03:57Daffy, wake up.
03:59Wake up, Daffy.
04:00You won't, you won't take me alive at...
04:02What are you?
04:04Oh, Daffy.
04:05It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's...
04:06Yow!
04:06Yow!
04:08Daffy, wake up!
04:10The Subterranean Spider People are real, I tell you!
04:15Oh, morning, Porky.
04:17What's, what's the early wake-up call?
04:19today's our annual home standards review
04:22haha yes the good old annual
04:24home standards review
04:26no well because the thing is that it's interesting about
04:28the duality of Porky
04:29and Daffy because
04:31they're two different sides of the same
04:34coin in some ways like both
04:36with their empathy and sometimes with
04:38their just manicness more Daffy
04:40but can you talk about that duality because that
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