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"It's set in this alternative world where the UN steps in to implement strict laws where everyone has to be equal," he says, describing it as a "wacky little story".

With its upstairs-downstairs dynamic — the “us” and “them” of it is explicitly laid out — large cast and grand beehive setting, it suggests a wackier contemporary American “Gosford Park.”

Pretty much every single one of them is what I call the “blue sheep” — they’re from a typical Southern, conservative family, and they’re the wacky liberal at the table.

Ask almost any usher, broadcaster, staffer, player or coach about the “Big Redhead” who died in May at 71 and you’ll hear some appropriately wacky story about how he touched their lives.

I wanted to be wild and wacky, like the buddy comedies we see a lot of in Hollywood.