Ben Stiller has been talking about his upcoming movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with the guys over at Collider as the movie begins to get ever closer to its release date. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is still a few months away from release but Ben has been talking about the experience he had on the movie.
Scene from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Stiller told Collider, "You know, it’s just been such a full experience and I wasn’t kidding, we are still working on it. It’s been a very long and complete experience in terms of the development of the script with Steve and the story. I think it all starts with the material and the script that Steve wrote and what he was aspiring to in the script. So, I guess to be in that territory, for me, it was a little scary because it was new.
He added, "Looking at a movie not looking at it as a director, not necessarily just as a comedy, and having a different criteria in how to connect with an audience and tell the story in a way that serves the story and allows people to feel what you would hope they would feel. That whole process has been great and exciting, and then just working with the cast and the actors and how everybody I think felt working on the movie from the beginning."
Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ben continued, "They all felt connected to what Steve had written and what we were trying to do, so that part of it. It’s had so many aspects: working on the visual effects, going to Iceland, doing a scene with comedic genius person. But seriously, it’s just a lot of different things and so that’s I think good."
As well as starring Ben Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty also stars Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott and Patton Oswalt. As well as starring in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller also directed the film, based on the screenplay by Steve Conrad. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is due to be released on December 25 in the US and December 26 in the UK.
Ben Stiller at his best
