You also don’t want King George to fight George (Washington), which is a little bit confusing on its face. King James is kind of in the lexicon already because of LeBron James. I guarantee you that the lion’s share of people who watch this film will not question that fact. And we don’t even know enough about our own country. The writer of the movie, Dave Callahan, had one rule: no research. But was there a reason you went with “King James” as opposed to King George III?
We spoke with Thompson about America: The Motion Picture’s many anachronisms and what it meant to say goodbye to an old friend on Archer.ĭen of Geek: I’m not necessarily the most learned student of American or British history. “There are all these little things that are ‘correct adjacent’,” Thompson says. Why did Washington cross the Delaware? Was it to get to the other side? No, that can’t be right. Who was Sam Adams (Jason Mantzoukas) again? We know he had something to do with beer. The end goal was to present a version of the country’s founding that could have sprung from its, let’s say, underfunded public education system. And Benedict Arnold (Andy Samberg)? Well, he’s just a real piece of work. Thomas Edison (Olivia Munn) is a Chinese-American woman sorcerer of science. Paul Revere (Bobby Moynihan) is a horse-obsessed man-child. In Callaham and Thompson’s version of history, George Washington (Channing Tatum) and Abraham Lincoln (Will Forte) aren’t only contemporaries: they’re bros.
The film, which comes from a script penned by Dave Callaham ( Wonder Woman 1984, Mortal Kombat), is a very, very, very, very loose retelling of America’s founding myth. America: The Motion Picture is an ambitious undertaking for any director.
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