Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence has reacted to Vince Vaughn’s comments about R-rated comedies, saying that producers don’t know what they want until they see a formula become a success.
Vaughn recently said Hollywood producers “overthink it” and have become too risk-averse to gamble on R-rated comedies that aren’t based on a pre-existing IP.
Lawrence wrote and produced Vaughn’s new crime comedy series Bad Monkey, which arrives on Apple TV+ on August 14.
An adaptation of the 2013 New York Times bestselling novel by cult Florida crime writer Carl Hiaasen, Lawrence describes the series as the sort of show “you don’t see anymore… banter-driven, R-rated comedies that actually have some real stakes.”
“I hope it works,” Lawrence told The Independent. “Because the second one works, everyone wants it.”
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