What do *you* mean, "you people?"

Director: Ben Stiller
Producers: Stuart Cornfeld, Eric McLeod and Ben Stiller
Writer: Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen
Music: Theodore Shapiro
Release Date: Oct 23, 2008 (Hong Kong)
Running Time:  107 mins.
Budget:  US$100 million

Tropic Thunder

The film stars Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film when their fed-up writer and director decide to abandon them in the middle of the jungle, forcing them to fight their way out.

Tropic Thunder trailer

Ben Stiller had become my favorite actor since 'Something about Mary'.  Then The Focker movies (Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers).  And also lately The Night in the Museum.  And of course a lot of others.  I still remembered he played a bad guy in Dodgeball.

Stiller initially had the idea for the film while playing a small part in Empire of the Sun and later brought on Theroux and Cohen to help him complete the script. After the film was greenlit in 2006, filming took place in 2007 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai over 13 weeks, and was deemed the largest film production in the island's history. Tropic Thunder had a large marketing promotion, including posting faux websites for the characters, fake films, and products shown within the film, showing numerous screenings, and selling the fictional energy drink advertised in the film.

Cast

Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman	Robert Downey Jr as Kirk Lazarus	Jack Black as Jeff Portnoy	Brandon T Jackson as Alpa Chino
Danny R McBride as Cody	Jay Baruchel as Kevin Sandusky	Nick Nolte as Four Leaf Tayback	Steve Coogan as Damien Cockburn
Matthew McConaughey as Rick Peck (Speedman's agent) Tom Cruise as Les Grossman (The foul-mouthed executive behind Tropic Thunder)