{"id":828119,"date":"2026-03-15T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/828119\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:25:14","slug":"pizza-movie-director-talks-college-setting-of-hulu-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/828119\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pizza Movie&#8217; Director Talks College Setting Of Hulu Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>PIZZA MOVIE<\/strong><br \/><strong>Section: <\/strong>Narrative Spotlight<br \/><strong>Directors: <\/strong>Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher<br \/><strong>Logline: <\/strong>A group of college students go downstairs to their dorm lobby to get a delivery pizza. There\u2019s only one issue: They\u2019re insanely high on a home-made drug, turning their simple journey down two sets of stairs into a mind-bendingly transformative quest.<br \/><strong>Panelists: <\/strong>Brian McElhaney, Sean Giambrone, Gaten Matarazzo, Lulu Wilson, Nick Kocher<br \/><strong>Distributor: <\/strong>Hulu<br \/><strong>Premiered: <\/strong>March 13, 2026<br \/><strong>Key Quote:<\/strong> \u201cThe RAs are a full Nazi metaphor. When we initially had the idea for the movie, it was going to be guys in their 20s in an apartment building trying to get a pizza from the lobby of the building. Then we couldn\u2019t crack the movie,\u201d director Nick Kocher said. \u201cThe big breakthrough was when we realized, \u2018Oh, what if we set this in college? And it\u2019s all in a college dorm, and one of the big things that happened there was \u2018Oh, there\u2019s a natural antagonist, which is the RAs.\u2019 We always love writing villains. I love villains that just chew up the scenery and have way too long monologues and really enjoy being villains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline Studio at SXSW presented by Redbreast Irish Whiskey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PIZZA MOVIESection: Narrative SpotlightDirectors: Brian McElhaney and Nick KocherLogline: A group of college students go downstairs to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,237793,30598,3943,237794,237795,24476,237796,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-828119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaten-matarazzo","10":"tag-hulu","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-pizza-movie","13":"tag-sean-giambrone","14":"tag-sxsw","15":"tag-sxsw-studio","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}