larry king now our guest today is actor producer musician director and eighty's anthony michael hall known for pirates of silicon valley of the dog catcher edward scissorhands the dead zone and of course sixteen candles on the breakfast club the now stars obvious that brad pitt in war machine the film an afghanistan war satire which anthony plays a version of michael flynn is available on netflix it's been described this movie as an afghanistan war satire it is is today. it was got to be based on factual things it is larry you know in part what happened was plan b. it optioned the book it was originally called the operators and it stemmed from an article in rolling stone magazine written by a gentleman in michael hastings who then went on to write the book by the line of the plays yes or and so plan b. option the book and they developed it for a period of years and david michaud does a very brilliant talented writer director from australia they test him with with directing the film adapting the book the book was serious the book was serious yeah and i think close to the beginning of

. >> "16 candles" was a revelation as kid because i thought oh, i'm anthony michael hall.s who i am. >> all right. i knew you'd come around. >> epitomizes what it's like to be 15, 14, a freshman, anxious to be at senior parties, with this girl. >> that guy who is normally made fun of in other movies is a hero in this movie. farmer ted is, could argue, the leader of that flick for a lot of us. >> very nice. we're five minutes in -- i'm at a loss. >> prior to john hughes, most of the comedies weren't aimed at us. teenagers in the movies were olivia newton john and john travolta. these kids in high school looked like my parents. like he woke up one day, entirely underserved audience here, make movies for them on their level, the way they talk. using actors that look their age. >> i think one of the mistakes commonly made in hollywood teenage pictures is their just going for bucks and not heart. >> i think he's honest and doesn't try to show us for something we're not. >> took the simplest of canvasses and ones we were all familiar with. >> bueller? >> growing up. >> bueller?

and before we go don't forget to tune in later for larry king now tonight's guest is anthony michael hall talking about his latest movie war machine play general paul and it's based on flynn and i understand that you adept at method acting for this set right is that not your normal course question sir sometimes i do it just depends on the material the last time i i can recall doing this when i played bill gates this is going back about fifteen years but i think it's when i make these decisions in support of the work it's somehow to protect the level of concentration for myself that i just kind of want to. a lot of the gap between what we're doing in and the down time so that's a new study. i did and did i read a bunch about him but knowing that we had that latitude i chose to kind of take it another direction you never met him. when you play a character you have to like him right or believe in him you don't play at one hundred you play or it's a good question do you have to like the character yeah i mean i think for me the impetus was i had a lot of inspiration my grandfather served in wo