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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast More What You Here Weekday

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Afternoon is on the Drive. Anthony
se Ferrante is a well He made his

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feature writing and directing debut with the
Atmospheric Ghost Story Boo, but he's been

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a lifelong horror fan and he's parleyed
all of his fandom into the production of

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the Shark Nato franchise, which is
out with its tenth anniversary edition, newly

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remastered, never before seen kills and
Thrills, More Sharks, More Nato,

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and I can't wait to see it. Anthony, thanks for joining us,

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Nah, thank you so much.
I really appreciate it. So we have

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our share of tornadoes, we do
not have our share of sharks. You

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should be you should be worried because
everything that we did in the Sharknado movies

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has come true. So I don't
want to wish that on you. But

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you know, the weird thing is
that there was a there was like a

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mini funnel in Los Angeles about three
or four months ago, and I was

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picking up debris and I was we
were looking at it and loving that actually

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looks like our cgi sharks. Because
the Japore looked like it almost looked identical

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to a shot from a Sharknado movie. So again, be careful. We

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watch the watch the skies. It's
not necessarily tornado. It's the sharks that

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can can really do some damage.
The tornadoes are scary enough, even though

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we're so used to them. When
the sirens go off, everybody's grabbing their

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camera to go get a picture of
it. So they don't do that in

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Sharknado, do they They don't go
take a picture of it. Well,

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let me get let me maybe I
can get the shark flying by. Yeah.

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And unfortunately, unfortunately, a chainsaw's
not gonna help you against a regular

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tornado either. So that's true.
I mean, maybe that's the danger and

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what we've done for for the Oklahoma
residence. It's like, hey, mom,

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Dad, I got the chainsaw.
It's like no, no, no,

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no, and it's there's no sharks
in it. Oh, so we

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better go protect ourselves now. Sharknado, the tenth Anniversary edition is out and

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it'll be at AMC Quail Springs twenty
four, Bricktown sixteen, and Regal Warren

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and more, Tulsa's AMC South Roads
twenty with Imax and Dolby B and B,

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Tulsa, Star World twenty and Regal
Warren and Broken Arrow, all the

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places where you can see it.
How did you come up with the original

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concept? Did you just decide,
hey, let's make a scary tornado we

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even scarier. It was just we
tried to come up with the most ridiculous

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idea. Jacob harre Wright, a
guy who write a couple of scripts with

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we would come up with some stupid
ideas and one of them was Sharknado,

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and and honestly, sci Fi was
like no a couple of times, and

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then I wrote a reference to the
Sharknado and another script for them, and

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they go, that's when we must
make this movie. And that's that's what

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we you know. It was just
a title that that tickled us, and

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we thought it was kind of silly
and fun, and we were trying to

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find a way to make it without
Sci Fi, and then they decided to

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do it. And I was fortunate
enough to come along for the ride and

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make six of these movies. So, you know, we always believed in

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the promise of the premise, and
I wanted to deliver and over deliver,

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you know, regardless of budget and
time. You know, we had six

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months start to finish, no money, eighteen days and it just was lightning

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in a bottle. Something happened.
But you know, I never gave up

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on the movie. If anything was
like, well, you know, if

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it destroys my career, at least
I went down in Flaming Sharks and and

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you know, and that's what you
do. You got to put everything in

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it. And you know, be
damned when anybody thinks. We wrote the

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theme song to the film, The
Ballad of Sharknado, and someone told me,

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don't put that out there. People
are going to make fun of you.

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And I was like, no,
we're putting it out and you know,

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it's a little Ramon's type ditty kind
of thing, and it's, you

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know, uh, go go go, go go, run away from the

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Sharknado. It's your greatest puff of
foe. Don't want to get eaten by

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Sharknado. And it just it just
you know, it was fun and that's

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what the whole movie was. It
was just a celebration of fun. And

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now people can get see it in
the theater. There there's a generation that

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grew up on it that know what
it is. From TV. They see

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it every year and then now you're
gonna get a whole new generation. They're

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gonna go to a theater and get
that communal experience that people had on Twitter

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that first night. So and we
remastered it for theatrical it's a different experience.

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It's the same ridiculous movie, but
with you know, four K remix

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sound new Sharks. We went back
into the original cuts of the movie to

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see if there's stuff that we ran
out of time to do, and we

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put some of that stuff back in
the film, did a little bit of

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re editing. Basically, George Lucas
this thing to make sure the Sharks shoot

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first. Anthony Ferranti is the director
and writer of Shark Nado and this is

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the tenth anniversary which is playing in
and around the area this week. As

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it opened, so audiences were at
first wait, no, really, and

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then hey, this is cool,
but what about casting? Was it difficult

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to get people to be in the
movie? No one, No one wanted

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to be in the movie. They
put out a casting notice, you know,

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you sent out offered just the name
talent, and every time they sent

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out something with Shark Nado was like
no, no. And then they then

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they then they set out a casting, noticing, no, it's called Dark

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Skies. Yeah, that's the ticket. And then of course, uh,

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you know, we got our when
we got our cast, and then they

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found out it was gonna be called
Shark Nado, and then they were gonna

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come after me with their their pitchforks
and fire and like, you must change

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this title. Our careers are ruined. It's like, no, it'll be

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good. It's called Shark Nado.
It's so much better than Dark Skies.

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Please don't kill me. And and
so that I mean, I think that's

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what it is. It's just like
I mean, there was I think Steve

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Gutenberg was offered and he passed.
I think honestly, the closest we came

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to somebody that would was actually legitimate
was Crispin Glover, who I had like

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a thirty minute conversation with on on
the phone, and and Chrispin was like,

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I don't understand why you want me
to be in this movie. I'm

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like, because they are offering it
too. It's like, you know,

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I want to play finn as if
you know, you know, he's He's

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like I got a brain injury or
something, and I'm like, oh,

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okay, Chrispin, and it was
the weirdest thirty minute conversation. Love the

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actor, love him to death,
but it was like, I don't I

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don't know if it would have been
the movie it was with him in it,

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but it was really kind of cool
as if you can imagine, you

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know, Sharknado starring Crispin Glover,
it probably still would have been, you

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know, just as crazy. But
but but I think he's right. It's

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like, you know, why why
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like, because no one else wants
to do it, so I want to

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come along for the ride and let's
have some fun. But it didn't,

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it didn't work out. And then
and finally Ian Zering's name came up,

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and it's like the moment they said
Ian Zering, it's like, of course

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that's Finn Shepherd. I mean everybody
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I mean Steve Gutenberg, who was
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Steve would have been great. But
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brought to it is he just brought
a legitimacy to that care grounded it in

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this, in this thing. I
think Steve would it would have been more

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humorous like it was with Lavalanchila,
which I think would have been great too,

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But iron just there was a different
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I think people didn't expect him in
a movie like this, and he just

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sold it. So it took it
from you have the comedy with the title,

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you don't want to make it a
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we did lean in heavily into the
cheekiness and as it went along,

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but the goal was always the characters
are not in on the joke. The

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joke is the title, in the
in the in the movie itself. So

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as long as you ground it,
that's what makes it the special movie.

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It is shark Nado, the tenth
anniversary edition Newly were Master to end it

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out never before seens kills and thrills, more sharks, more Nato. Did

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you Anthony Farantius with us? Did
you have to immerse yourself in any meteorology

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to produce this? I actually I
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and they had this shark exposition exposition, and so my family and I

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went to that, and so I
was, you know, not not that

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it was gonna enlighten me on anything. But there there is one moment in

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the script where you know, we
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in the original script, you know, how how can you destroy these tornadoes

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and stuff? And I went and
researched a little bit about cold air and

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hot air and could could bombs actually
destroy it? And so there's a little

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there's a little truth to this,
even though it's still you know, bs

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science. But but but I think
I think the one thing is people go,

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well, did they know that what
they were making was ridiculous or were

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they just completely oblivious? And I
think there's a moment where Baths played by

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Jason Simmons, shows up and I
go, we're gonna throw bombs into tornadoes?

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That's impossible. And he shows up
literally steps behind an out of well

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actually cold and warm air. Blah. It's like basil exposition and literally it's

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like a Monty Pie movie. And
it's like, if you didn't understand we

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were in on the joke, that
should have been the moment where a character

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stands out it's like, yes,
this is possible because X Y Z and

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and I. That's again there's a
there's a lot of money python in this

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movie, the guy getting his arm
ripped off by the shark and he's you

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know, you know, crawling on
the ground, and then the shark comes

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and the smashes the top of his
head. Uh. There's a lot of

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silliness that I still can't believe they
let me make this movie. He Finn

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gets eaten by a shark and then
chainsaws his way out and then pulls this

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other character out of the shark.
How is it that we got to do

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this movie and then did it for
six movies. It's it's it's a gift

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and the fans came along with it. And that unhingedness, that energy of

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desperation, I think is what made
the movie what it was. Shark Nado

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the tenth Anniversary Edition. It is
out now at a theater near you,

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Oklahoma City and in Tulsa. Anthony
C. Ferranti is the director and writer.

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And we thank you for bringing Shark
Nado into our lives and joining us

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today. Thank you so much,
Lee, Go Go Go. Thanks for

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