You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.
Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.