Collider: Once the writers’ strike is resolved..

Ed Cunningham: Yeah, once it’s resolved…we’ve hired a writer, Michael Bicall is his name, and once it’s resolved and he can get back to work…it’s all based on how soon we get a good script. You know, luckily everyone who is involved in it – from New Line to the producer’s side – we all know the story really well, we all care about it deeply, we all care about protecting the documentary and the integrity of the documentary, and so does Michael Bacall the writer. He gets it, that’s why he was hired. He knows kind of what we are after. But once the strike is over…Richard Brenner, who is the President at New Line, is ready to run with it.

Collider: So do you have any dream casting for any of the roles?

Ed Cunningham: You know it’s funny, we’ve been all over the board. One of the things that really endeared us to New Line is and Richard Brenner in particular was…it’s very easy to say, ‘oh, big comedy have people kicking each other in the nuts.’ But that’s not his vision at all and it’s not ours. We don’t want this thing spoofed, you know. South Park already did it and that’s okay, but we don’t want to make a spoof of this. And so the idea is that it will be dramatic actors – guys who have range, guys that can figure it out. We’ve thrown around names but nothing that has stuck.

Collider: So is Steve going to approve who plays Steve? How does that work?

Ed Cunningham: You mean working with the actor?

Collider: I guess what I’m saying is…will the movie be the exact story? You see where I’m going with this?

Ed Cunningham: As we discussed in the Q&A, there were things that happened in the documentary that obviously we’ll shoot like you’re there… like his kid crapping his pants while he’s playing the game. We’ll be in the garage with him instead of seeing the video from his world record attempt. Things like that. But, there’s the million dollar question… what about the ending? Do they go head to head? You just don’t know. We’d like to be very faithful to the documentary. I know I would, and I feel like everyone else in the room feels that way to. But, at the same time, you don’t want to remake it exactly. Because you want to give something a little different. You want to see if you can maybe expand the characters a little bit, spend some more time in their personal lives, see that kind of stuff. I hope we stay pretty true to it.

Collider: I’m going to put you on the spot. Dream casting for some of these people. What is your dream?

Ed Cunningham: That’s a hard one.

Collider: There has to be one person for Billy…

Ed Cunningham: Just so you know…this is dangerous territory.

Collider: Well, dream doesn’t mean anything cause once they read a script people can back out, you know what I mean.

Ed Cunningham: If it were just Ed casting the movie, I love Greg Kinnear. I think he’s an amazing actor.

Collider: I could really see that. That’s very good.

Ed Cunningham: Then for Billy…there’s just…

Collider: There was a lot of talk online about who could play Billy. Everyone from Johnny Depp to you name it.

Ed Cunningham: Tom Cruise. There have been a lot of names.

Collider: Have any actors tried or contacted you about the film?

Ed Cunningham: Yeah, but we’re not talking about that. (he laughs) One of the things that happened with this film was that when we sent the film around to the agencies to get represented – you know cause a film needs an agent like an actor – this little underground thing happened with all the assistants in Hollywood, they had heard about this film and they started having (someone interrupts him) and so through that a bunch of big name writers, directors and actors have seen the film, love the film and perfect example…one of the reasons that Seth Gordon is shooting Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn right now is King of Kong. And I’m blanking on the name of the guy editing Four Christmases…but both him and Vince saw the movie and they were like ‘that guy could direct this,’ so it’s been a pretty cool process. Steve actually got an email out of the blue from Tony Hawk. He found his email, then sent him an email and told him you’re awesome and sent him a couple of skateboards and some games for his kids. We were at Comic-Con having dinner after the screening and Jonah Hill who had a tiny film coming out called Superbad, was doing press next door and heard Weibe was next door, left the press to come over and have his picture taken with Steve Weibe. It’s just been really cool to see people really wanting to hang with Steve.

Collider: And what’s it like to have the best ranked film at Rotten Tomatoes?

Ed Cunningham: I think we’re number two now. I think Ratatouille is now number 1.

Collider: I have to be honest, I think Ratatouille is amazing.

Ed Cunningham: It’s awesome. We actually got to take Kong to Pixar and play it there.