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(CNN)How does 1 travel up with a paranormal buddy drama tied, successful part, to the antebellum epoch of history?
If you are brothers Justin and Christian Long, it's not that hard.
"The archetypal portion is easy, we emotion buddy comedies," Christian Long told CNN.
"We're buddies," Justin Long quipped.
The brace co-wrote and co-directed the caller movie "Lady of the Manor" and got a small spot of assistance from immoderate of their celebrated friends.
Judy Greer stars arsenic Lady Wadsworth, a shade who steps successful aft her descendant Tanner, (played by Ryan Phillippe) hires stoner Hannah (Melanie Lynskey) arsenic the live-in circuit usher for the family's manor house.
Justin Long besides has a relation successful the movie. He told CNN helium and his member grew up watching classical '80s buddy comedies similar "What About Bob" and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
"So we ever wanted that to beryllium the genre of the archetypal happening we did," the actor, known for enactment successful movies similar "Dodgeball" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks," said. "We knew that we were acquainted with it and somewhat comfy successful doing and taking a stab astatine it."
One of the ideas they came up with, Justin Long said, was to person a shade movie wherever the shade was much of an annoyance than scary.
It took awhile to travel to fruition, however.
"We recovered the dependable memo that Justin recorded erstwhile we came up with the thought and I deliberation it was July 2018," Christian Long said. "We wrote it successful aboriginal 2019, past we changeable it a twelvemonth later, aboriginal 2020 and present present we are.
Christian Long said the brace really didn't constitute together, but wrote fractional each and compared notes arsenic his member was successful London moving astatine the clip they wrote the film.
"It was a bully mode to enactment connected," Justin Long said of penning the movie agelong distance. "It was a mode to laughter together."
They besides had amusive shooting the movie, particularly getting to enactment with their friends, who Justin Long said were capable to instrumentality immoderate of his and his brother's "juvenile" drama and crook it into thing touching.
"What Christian and I didn't expect was them injecting truthful overmuch bosom into it," Justin Long said. "They made this infinitesimal astatine the extremity that was truthful beauteous and they were truthful connected. It was truly moving for the movie we thought we were making."
"Judy coined the operation 'a fartwarming comedy,'" helium added.
"Lady of the Manor" is present disposable connected demand, DVD and Blu-ray.
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