'Wild West Show': Vaughn, Favreau, Billingsley and Ahmed Stay Bonded from Startup to Stardom
By Scott Huver, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Billingsley: [When] these guys met on Rudy--and we were just telling stories about it, calling up the bell hop and having fun, and just stuff that young guys do to have a good time--there was really a genuine friendship, and that’s what really started it, and then I think the work has grown from there…They made a decision to sort of control their own destiny and said, ‘Hey, let’s make a film.’
Favreau: When I wrote Swingers, it was very much in the voice of what he was, an exaggerated version of that. And then, we tried to get the movie set up, and somebody wanted to buy it. And we did readings trying to keep everybody in the cast. Then when I finally did the deal I was like, ‘It has to be me and Vince,’ and that was part of the deal. And then we did it very inexpensively because we didn’t have a lot of star power to draw funds, and that became a calling card.