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  • Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

    "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.