Sarah Acosta
Dr. S. Deborah Kang presents a lecture in the DeGolyer Library as part of the Brown Bag series.
“21 & Over” stars Skylar Astin, Justin Chon and Miles Teller. The film hits theaters on Friday, March 1. (Courtesy of Relativity Media)
The Saddle Ranch Chop House on Hollywood’s famed Sunset Boulevard is quite the wild place.
However, even with its leather-bound bar stools and a morose collection of horns and antlers, the venue doesn’t hold a candle to the wild times portrayed in “21 & Over,” the new film from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore who struck comedic gold when they wrote the script to 2009’s “The Hangover.”
Despite existing in the shadows of “21 & Over’s” over-the-top debauchery, the Saddle Ranch Chop House played host to the film’s West Coast press day where Lucas, Moore and a handful of the movie’s cast sat down to talk shop.
Lucas and Moore met on the set of “Beverly Hills Cop” in 1999, and ever since the duo has been working together to pen such films as “Four Christmases,” “The Change Up” and “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.”
However, with “21 & Over,” Lucas and Moore step from behind the computer screen and try their hand at directing.
“It’s definitely a transition from writing to directing,” Moore said. “There were scenes in the movie that looked great on paper but ended up being a directorial