{"id":5813,"date":"2020-06-02T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2020-05-31T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T21:33:34","slug":"mike-elliott-director-universal-1440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2020\/mike-elliott-director-universal-1440\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Elliott, Director and Visionary, Shares His Trade Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Mike Elliott, the director of American Pie: Girls Rule<\/em>. In our discussion, we discussed the challenges of continuing one of cinema\u2019s most famous comedy series and how this film differs from his experience as both a director and a producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Pie: Girls Rule <\/em>is the ninth installment in the franchise. After nine films, the series has garnered a reputation and an expectation from its fans. So, Mike Elliott had to approach this film from two fronts. First, he had to keep in mind the \u201cformula\u201d that the American Pie<\/em> series follows – a raunchy, but explorative and innocent story. Second, he had to find a way to separate this film from its many predecessors. To do so, American Pie: Girls Rule<\/em> switches perspective and looks at the comedy of relationships from the female perspective instead of the male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n