Having signed on to the production, director Andy Fickman went to work tailoring stunts and action sequences that might interest his “The Game Plan” star, Dwayne Johnson, in coming aboard the project. As it turns out, the film was not a hard sell to Johnson, who was a fan as well of the original movies in the 1970s.

Fresh on the heels of directing the runaway hit “Superbad,” writer-director Greg Mottola returns with ADVENTURELAND, a hilariously human, semi-autobiographical comedy about an uptight, overeducated young man whose lowly new “career” leads to the wildest ride of his life – a journey through puking kids, angst-filled co-workers and a dizzy-making romantic triangle — all the way to facing his own future with guts and optimism.

My role is particularly satisfying from an emotional standpoint. John is remarkably devoted to his son and he has the added pressure of raising him alone. We don't see the concern that fathers have for their children often enough in movies.  That's another one of the reasons I wanted to do this film–Nicolas Cage

In matters of international affairs, how do we extricate from the war in Iraq  How do we counter the North Korean nuclear weapon gambit How do we prop up Afghanistan as it melts down, and how is the resurgent Taliban kept at bay “Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived” is a relevant film that addresses these questions by looking at the way President Kennedy dealt with six deep foreign policy crises (Cuba to Vietnam) without going to war–Director Koji Masutani 

The Web and newspapers and books have information, but for me it is hard to get a sense of things unless I go in person to see what someplace is like. Now, the short film played at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and I was asked to submit a script for the Sundance Lab. I had spent all my time finishing the short, so I had just two weeks to draft the feature script. I drew on the research I had done for the short, but I knew I needed to find out even more about the things that I didn't know about and write more drafts. I wanted authenticity.