Judd Apatow Jake Kasdan. John C. Reilly Jenna Fischer David Krumholtz. Top credits Director Jake Kasdan. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Clip Interview Photos Top cast Edit. Reilly Dewey Cox as Dewey Cox. David Krumholtz Schwartzberg as Schwartzberg. Tim Meadows Sam as Sam. Chip Hormess Nate as Nate. Raymond J. Barry Pa Cox as Pa Cox. Jake Kasdan.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation.
On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.
Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard. Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language. Did you know Edit. Goofs During his college show for "little man", contemporary cars are visible in the background. Quotes [after Dewey accidentally barges in a room filled with smoke and groupies] Sam : [coughs] Get outta here, Dewey! Soundtracks Prelude in G Minor, Op. User reviews Review.
A very extensive biopic with all the scope those movies have. With original music about a fictional rock legend. And that it would be called Walk Hard. Apatow: The second he told me, I laughed so hard. Kasdan: And 45 minutes later he had set it up at Sony and we were starting the wheels turning.
Forty-five minutes is only a small exaggeration. I just had this baby idea, and as he does, when he gets something in his head he gets excited and it starts to happen. Kasdan: One of the original ideas was that we would find somebody to play it who was a great comedian but also somebody who could credibly be in a movie like that.
And really, John C. Reilly is almost the only person who so completely checks both of those boxes. It was certainly really an honor that they came to me. Apatow: I had just worked with him on Talladega Nights. So he was someone I was astounded by on a daily basis. I knew he was a fantastic singer, so we never considered anybody else.
John took it very, very seriously. Early on, he made it very clear he wanted to be deeply involved in all creative aspects of the movie. Kasdan: We took the opportunity to revisit [music biopics] and make a giant list of everything that we could include. Apatow: We just made notes of what we thought was the most ridiculous things they had to do to get through the story.
There are so many of them. Apatow: I remember looking at Bird. Great Balls of Fire! Kasdan: Part of the original conceit was that we would be telling this life story in this slightly stylized way where he has these just epic arcing phases of his life.
If a guy walked in, he would become the manager. Kasdan: Part of the thought process was we would have the person playing Dewey for just an impossible stretch of time. Which is another conceit. Reilly: Jake had the best line about it. Kasdan: The endless run of cameos of real-life people walking in and out of the movie and being called by their full names.
The rise and fall and rise and fall thing way too many times. Apatow: We kept noticing that most of the characters had the disapproving parents. And writing the song instantly. Apatow: And the brother who died young.
Elvis had that story, and Cash had that story. Kasdan: You could totally see somebody wanting to cast John in an actual biopic like that. But he was so clearly the guy.
Hill: I remember them saying that they got someone who would be in Walk the Line. Not that it was so huge.
But it was a big studio comedy. He was thoughtful about it, but I think as he came to see it he totally fell in love with it and committed as hard as a person could. And I have to rise to the challenge. The soundtrack, a collaborative work made by an eclectic team of musicians, was almost absurdly ambitious. My wife [ Inara George ] is a musician. A lot of musicians are around me a lot. A lot of my closest friends are musicians.
You gotta make sure you want to do all this work. The score thing was something that I fell into. Making records is a big part of who I am. We would camp out there. Manish Raval music supervisor : We all came together around a single idea. And I remember it happening very fast. This was thrust upon me. I had to grow fast. And I also had to engage in songwriting with these guys who were professional songwriters.
In order to make it seem like I wrote it, to have some of my point of view in it, I had to engage in the songwriting process, which is a whole magical alchemy of itself. Dan Bern music consultant : I knew Jake. And I had just made my second album at the time and he used one of the songs on the end titles. And then Walk Hard came up. I just wanted to focus on it and get right back to my friend. I was just laughing out loud. People telling me to shush. It was a scene from a movie in itself.
Can you actually get away with making this movie? Fast-forward a couple of weeks. He was totally right. I really took to it. And I wrote a version and they loved it. Bern: I basically dropped everything I was doing. And for the next couple years I just channeled Dewey Cox. Viola: So I got out to L. And then we start talking about this guy Dan Bern.
And he was under there the whole time. He was wearing a baseball hat and Lakers shirt or something. We became so close. Bern: I remember going in with Mike Viola to a meeting with the two of us and Jake, John, and Judd, and they would fill a legal pad with just song titles. Andrews: Mike and Dan just holed up in a hotel room and just started writing tunes.
They put us there for a couple months. And we just lived there. He had his room and I had my room, so we had a little privacy. Dan would be watching basketball. And the next day lather and repeat. We did that for a long time. Just like that. Kasdan: They probably wrote over songs [or at least] attempts or ideas. Andrews: They would keep coming with tunes. Apatow: A lot of times they would write songs based on the mood. Andrews: It started in the world of Johnny Cash.
Then all of a sudden it was a parody of the Johnny Cash movie. Because it started that way, it was the easiest way to classify that movie. Making the music, at least for me, I was never really referencing that. And then from there, we went into other genres. Van Dyke Parks songwriter : The piece that I was asked to cowrite with Mike Andrews and orchestrate was, by every intention, farce. And musical farce is probably the most difficult of all the challenges in the medium.
Sometimes someone can make a musical joke and it plays once. And of course that was our challenge, to try to make it plausible. It required the ability to self-criticize and to be the victim of my own joke.
And I was put in that position. I was delighted to do it. It just had become the most absurd thing. And then [we added] an extended Indian classical intro. And it was this monster that kept growing.
And then of course it turns into like a second bit in the movie. Parks: The room sounded beautiful. Hit them with a wall of a sound. And make it funny. Because we were being too conservative. Punch up these lyrics and make them a little bit funnier. And it was real Old Hollywood—type shit; when you have someone like Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan pushing you to make shit funny. Jake Kasdan actually taught me something really crucial very early on. There was a song I was trying to write … I thought it was really, really funny.
I guess. But no. What does it mean? I sat around with a piece of paper trying to write every sexual word or phrase or slang that I could think of. Apatow: Marshall Crenshaw I was always a big fan of. Every day more and more songs would come in and I would enjoy them. Reilly: There was a lot of heart put into it by a lot of people.
And we wrote 35 in six months. Andrews: It was a lot of work. John is a great singer. But he became a lot better singer during this movie. Why is he making me do this so many times? Like being a producer on a record, you try to challenge the artist. And I tried to challenge him in the same way that I would try to challenge an artist. A legitimate artist. Reilly: I was really determined not to be treated like an actor playing a musician. So I actually do have a lot of experience with music.
And I wanted to prove myself to those guys. He was working around the clock making these records. I think at the end of it, we recorded 45 or 50 tunes within like a six-month period. Bern: I remember meeting him, seeing him for the first time. Reilly, the actor. Andrews: I worked him really, really hard. And there were moments where he was really frustrated.
And I think that we worked through it and we made something really, really great. Reilly: I was in incredibly good hands. Mike Andrews worked harder than anybody on the movie, I think. Because of the hours that he put in. He was the one managing that whole stable of writers. He was the one producing it. Apatow: A lot of times it made me sad that the songs were so silly. Because I thought they sounded so amazing and beautiful. Raval: They were tremendous songs. I think they were fucking great.
Because Walk Hard was a multi-multi-period piece filled with intricately staged musical performances, it required an extraordinary amount of preparation before a single scene was shot. It looks like a biopic. The costumes are perfect. All of the instruments are perfect. Kasdan: To do all those places and all those things, we built just a crazy amount of stuff. Brilliant guy, really kind of just outdid himself.
Holy mackerel. He built seven hotel rooms and three music studios. Everything was very detailed and authentic. Sage: The big studio for the Beach Boys [parody] world was built on stage. I just dug into research on some of the recordings in that period.
Andrews: Van Dyke came over, we wrote that tune, I sang it with all the Beach Boys—isms and everything in it. Tell them what you want the studio to look like. It was just fucking insane. Debra McGuire costume designer : This could never have happened with any other actor on the planet, but John loves costumes and character. He loves finding his character through costumes.
It is a dream come true to have an actor like that. For something that has wardrobe changes. So try to wrap your brain around it. What Cathy [Hahn] and I did, she was assisting me, is we divided these fittings up into periods and we also invited Lori [Guidroz], who did the hair, to join us in these fittings so we could put the appropriate wigs on and really get in the mood and the vibe and the character for these eras.
What we did is we made music tapes for each era. So John literally is the only actor that exhausted me. He was like nonstop. The cast of Walk Hard is filled with comedy superstars and character actors. Kasdan: We were just looking at the funniest people to populate the thing with. Kasdan: Kristen Wiig came in to just kick it around with him one day. Kasdan: She had, in the couple of years before that, emerged as one of the real breakout people on SNL.
Click to see full answer. People also ask, is Dewey Cox a real person? Jenna Fischer can walk the walk -and walk it hard! I think I have a perfectly fine voice for karaoke - but Darlene has to be a recording artist. At the center of " Walk Hard " is John C. Reilly who sings and acts his heart out to hilarious effect. A former Oscar nominee for "Chicago", Reilly has since cut a niche for himself as the second banana to bigger comedy stars like Will Ferrell in "Talladega Nights" and for the first time gets a film to call his own.
A parody of the biopic genre, Walk Hard is the story of a fictional early rock and roll star played by Reilly. The film was released in North America on December 21, Did Dewey Cox really cut his brother in half? Actually, Dewey Cox does not have an appointment in Manila. Nor did he cut his brother in half with a machete.
He never even had a brother or a machete. Who played the actual Dewey Cox? John C. Who sang Dewey Cox?
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