Over a long career as a director in television and film -- including FBI, The Umbrella Academy, several of the Marvel shows on Netflix and a couple of Arrowverse shows for The CW -- director Stephen Surjik has fond memories of working with Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia Carrere and the cast of 1993's Wayne's World 2, even though he wound up tossing out its first script.
Surjik directed the sequel to the 1992 film inspired by the recurring skit from Saturday Night Live, which was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. "There was a script that came up early and I prepped it for two months," Surjik told ComingSoon.net. "I did all the story points for it. And it was basically a version of the Passport to Pimlico. It was like a rip-off of that. It was about Wayne and Garth finding out that their little place in Scarborough was in fact no longer part of a sovereign country and they make double currency — it was funny! And a really great script."
He added, "Right before we went into production the studio said to me, 'We can't do this. We don’t have permission from the people.' So, we had to start again, and they had to rewrite the script from scratch." The new story covered Wayne and Garth's efforts to promote a concert, dubbed "Waynestock."
"So, if you can imagine that was a very stressful time for me. And I really didn't enjoy that part of it because the timeframe was too hard for me because I get this page and then I've got to build the shots and I have to figure all that out," the director said. "It was just too stressful. So, I didn’t really enjoy that aspect of it, but I certainly enjoyed the experience. It was a great adventure that I make no apologies for."
Directed by Stephen Surjik, Wayne's World 2 stars Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere and Chris Farley.
Source: ComingSoon.net