On August 20, 2009 (just three short years before everything smolders to ash in 2012, mind you... so smoke 'em if you got 'em), the charming lads from RiffTrax will be bringing their wisecracking movie commentary skills to the big screen. In fact, a lot of big screens. And they'll be doing it live. In association with Fathom Events, the trio will be live-riffing the classic science fiction gem of a curiosity, Plan 9 From Outer Space, from Nashville's historic Belcourt Theater. The event will be broadcast to theaters all over the country, and tickets can be purchased online.
Blogcritics sat down with Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett - separated by hundreds and hundreds of miles, as well as a flaky Internet connection - for a quaint chat about the event, life in general, and the greatness of The Room.
First off, I was curious as to how you picked Nashville for the location of your first live theater event.
Mike: We are so country, man...
Bill: Kevin is the natural heir to Minnie Pearl's legacy.
Kevin: They call me Garth Murphy, actually... okay, now we'll give you the real answer. Mike?
Mike: The venue and the production company that can do these satellite shows sort of made the choices limited to a few locations. And we just liked Nashville. Especially over L.A. L.A. can go to hell.
You've done a couple of live events on the RiffTrax website, so the transition over to doing the national theater thing, was that something that you initiated? Or did they come to you and ask if you would be interested? How did that come about?
Mike: We went to them actually. We knew of their existence and thought it would be a good way to bring our show to a lot more people.
Kevin: We've gone to theaters, we've done the show live on stage before and it's so much fun. But considering that we spend so much time writing and producing RiffTrax for release, it's nearly impossible for us to go on the road to do a show. So it seemed like being able to do this national streaming event to all these 434 movie theaters was a great way to do a stage show in front of a huge audience, so we're really looking forward to it.
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