Can you guys say what you are working on now?

Andrew: Well Luke wrote this script called ‘Electric Avenue’ that Luke just mentioned that we are going to try and get going. We would direct that together.

Luke: It’s an idea I talked to Martin Lawrence about. A few years ago we done a movie called “Blue Streak’ and we just had fun working together. And always said we should try and do something together. Yeah, he liked the idea but now we just have to show him the script and see if he’s still into it or if he has the time. But, that’s what we are going to try and get going.  And then we have this Jim Leher book called ‘White Widow’ that we have to write the script to and get that going.

Can you tell us what ‘Electric Avenue’ is about?

Luke: It’s just kind of about a newspaperman whose life has kind of hit the skids and I’m hired to kind of keep an eye on him. It’s kind of a buddy picture.

Andy, what does Luke have that’s like Wendell and how is he different?

Andrew: Not the con man, but just somebody that sticks to it and isn’t easily. Wendell is somebody who has tired a lot of different things and some of them haven’t worked out, but he keeps plugging along.

Luke: Delusional.

Andrew: You can kind of make that analogy for writing which is a very, very difficult thing to do. As Luke was saying, you sometimes get the response that you want, but you’ve just got to keep trying. And that’s what I sort of admire about Wendell; he gets thrown in jail and ends up loving jail. (Laughs.) He loves the camaraderie, loved the courts. That’s a quality that Luke has that I admire a lot.  He sticks to it and is kind of tough.

Is your brother wanting his own trailer?

Luke: Yeah, he really talks a lot of smack about the dog in ‘My Dog Skip.’ He didn’t shed a lot of tears when that dog died. No, my brother is great, but he’s currently residing in Texas, but I am gonna get him back out here as the heat kicks in.  But Andrew and I are going to Texas tomorrow to do some things for ‘Wendell,’ so I can’t wait to see him. My mother said she saw him yesterday and told him that Andrew and I were coming into town and he just yawned and smiled. (Laughs.)

Did you use any of the Robert Rodriguez facilities in Austin while making your movie?

Luke: Yeah, when we were there I don’t even know that you could call them glorified airplane hangers. You better have pigeon sounds somewhere worked in, because you hear them fluttering around. But, no, it’s a great town, because you’ve got Mike Judge there. You’ve got Richard Linklater and Rodriguez.  I’ve heard that Rodriguez’s house he’s got all his mixing stuff and sounds.

But he’s not loaning it out to you?

Luke: I met him, he couldn’t be a nicer guy and the same with Linklater. Yeah, those guys are really the real deal. It’s so nice just for kids and movie fans and just kids and just people who want to get into the business. Like, you see those guys out and about around town in coffee shops and they are the kind of people you could say ‘Hi’ to them if you could.

Can you talk about the pictures in the trailer, were there any you couldn’t use?

Andrew: It’s funny you mention that, because we had – they said, basically every picture they said, ‘No you can’t use that.  You can’t use Herve Villechaize.’ We had -- J-Lo was one of them. They said, ‘No, you can’t use J-Lo,’ but we just kind of steamrolled them and said we had to.  It’s kind of funny, it’s one of my favorite scenes in the movie.  But, that’s one of the things that they tried to scare [us with] that they were going to shut down the production. If J-Lo found out we were making fun of her, she was going to shut down production.

Luke: We had one too where we said, ‘Menudo. The first Latino super group. The Mexican Beatles, but like them too many strong personalities and it blew the band apart.’  (everyone starts laughing)  Shoot, I guess we should have had that in.

Is there anything for the DVD?

Luke: Yeah, yeah, we’re working on it right now. It will come out in October. We are just trying to figure it out. We are working with a really good company on it where we will have, they call them bloopers, but hopefully they will just kind of be funny outtakes. We cut a ton of stuff out of the movie. And then we are going to try and do a bunch of other little interesting ideas and not have the usual boring ‘Making of’ type of thing. Try to have something a little more fun.

Well there be a commentary?

Luke: Yeah, we did the commentary, but yeah, we’re gonna try and figure out some good things for that.