Finally looked up “lollipop man”.

Can you talk a bit about this cast coming together? I know most writers don’t write with cast members in mind, but did you have to rework anything when this cast came together, or did it all fit?

Marti Noxon: We did a little bit for Colin (Farrell). There was some stuff at the end that hadn’t been there before. We had to give him a stronger point of view in the final sequence, so there was a little bit of rewriting there for him, but not much. What he brought, I think, so beautifully to the character was the physicality and his interesting twitches and the whole smell thing. You can tell he’s taking people’s scent in. I think I wrote one line about that and they just took that idea and ran with it. Certainly, they all had license to bring their own ideas to the table, and there’s some really funny improv that stayed in the movie. Both Christopher Mintz-Plasse and David Tennant and all of those guys were really good at that. Some of my favorite laugh-out-loud funny moments were things they made up on the side. I couldn’t have come up with the Stretch Armstrong line (Laughs). I’m not a dude. It would have never occurred to me (Laughs). I can write pretty blue, but there’s only so much I can do.

Can you talk a bit about working with (director) Craig Gillespie? Like yourself, he has a very wide canon of genres he’s worked in. Can you talk about what he brought to the table, in terms of his direction?

Marti Noxon: Yeah. It was interesting because at first I was kind of like, ‘Huh, Lars and the Real Girl,’ which I loved, but there weren’t a lot of scares in that movie. Then I saw a bunch of his commercial work and it became clear that he can do anything he wants. He’s so good with performance and great with actors, so the fact that he brought this cast to the table was really exciting. (via)

Fright Night (Craig Gillespie, 2011)