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''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' is a 1977 American anthology comedy film directed by John Landis. The film's writers were the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who went on to write and direct ''Airplane!'', ''Top Secret!'', and the ''Police Squad!'' television series and its film spinoffs, ''The Naked Gun'' films. The "feature presentation" portion of the film stars Evan C. Kim and hapkido Grand Master Bong Soo Han. Among the numerous cameo stars were George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Donald Sutherland, Tony Dow, Stephen Bishop, and the voice of Shadoe Stevens. According to David Zucker in the DVD commentary track, David Letterman auditioned for the role of the newscaster but was not selected. The film also features many former members of The Groundlings theater and some from The Second City. ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' marked the first film appearances of a number of actors who later became famous as well as being the vehicle that launched the careers of the Zucker brothers, Abrahams, and Landis. Landis's work on this film was responsible for his being recommended to direct ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' in 1978. ==Background and production== David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams made the rounds of the Hollywood studios with the concept for ''Kentucky Fried Movie'' and were rejected by all of them, being told that "audiences didn't like movies composed of sketches." Since the three believed in their material, which they had honed in front of the audiences with their improvisational troupe "Kentucky Fried Theater", they decided to make the movie on their own. A wealthy real estate investor offered to finance the film if they would write a script. After completion of the screenplay, the investor had second thoughts and decided he did not want to finance the film alone. He said he would try to attract other investors if the three filmmakers would produce a ten-minute excerpt of the film, which he would finance. When the trio presented a budget of the short film to the investor, he backed out.〔Litwak, p. 136〕 The prospect of shooting the short film so excited the trio that they decided to pay for it themselves. The ten-minute film cost $35,000, and with it they again approached the Hollywood studios. This time they attached young director John Landis to the project. However, once again, the studios turned them down.〔 Curious as to how audiences would react to their film, they persuaded exhibitor Kim Jorgenson to show it before one of his regularly scheduled movies. When Jorgenson saw the short, he "fell out of his seat laughing." He was so impressed that he offered to raise the money needed to make the full-length version. By having his fellow exhibitors screen the film before audiences in their theaters, he convinced them to put up the $650,000 budget. When released, ''Kentucky Fried Movie'' was a box-office success, returning domestic American rentals of $7.1 million.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Kentucky Fried Movie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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