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As founder of The Warren Report, Warren Etheredge hosts over 250 events every year,
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Warren catches Joe Piscatella for a brief post-screening Q&A where they discuss the difficulties of writing jokes that must be unoffensive, his short lived football career, and incurring the wrath of Rhode Island.
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March 15th, 2009 at 9:05 am
[...] Joe Piscatella and his writing partner, Craig A. Williams — who also did production re-writes on KUNG FU PANDA — gamely assumed the challenge of re-imagining UNDERDOG — the old cartoon series — for Spyglass Entertainment in just eight weeks. Adam Rifkin (MOUSEHUNT, SMALL SOLDIERS) had already prepared a draft, but its tone was too adult for the story’s live-action adaptation that, eventually, would be released by Disney. So, Piscatella & Williams cleverly reworked the material, taming the pup of steel without neutering it. Indeed, even after producers’ (dastardly!) decisions to gear the movie specifically to wee ones rather than to broader family audiences, UNDERDOG retains enough witty remarks and good-spirited innuendo to maintain parental amusement while kids track the simple silliness. Do not underestimate the degree of difficulty of this feat. Even the Russian judges would be impressed. [...]