The Bullet Is Helping Me!

The Bullet Is Helping Me! is a 2005 traditional-animated comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures and Rough Draft Studios. The film was directed by Richard Lester, written by Thomas Lennon, and stars Will Ferrell, Mike Myers, Jack Black, Tim Allen, and Steve Carell.

The film was released in the United States on June 12, 2005, by Paramount Pictures and received positive reviews from critics.

Plot
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Cast

 * Mike Myers as Derek "Quiet" Clarke, an awful singer who doesn't know how to speak up.
 * Tim Allen as Zachary Lart, the humble bassist of Derek's awful band.
 * Jack Black as Olivier Brians, the sarcastic guitarist of Derek's awful band.
 * Will Ferrell as Tony "Lunatic" Robbe, the crazy drummer of Derek's awful band.
 * Steve Carell as Lark, their illegal talking pet penguin.
 * Billy West as Joel Domber, Zachary's friend
 * Neil Ross as Brian Krickles, a news anchor
 * Carlos Alazraqui
 * Tara Strong
 * E.G Daily
 * Jennifer Tilly
 * Jay Leno

Development
In the late March 2004, Richard Lester thought up of a strange band that performs songs badly with a penguin. Lester un-retired and decided to adapt this into a movie. On April 1, 2004, Lester had pitched the idea to Paramount Pictures, and they accepted. On April 8, 2004, Paramount announced that it is having producer and screenplay try-outs for an untitled traditional-animated movie that would later turn into "The Bullet Is Helping Me!". He thought that Thomas Lennon and Joe Stillman did the scripts the best, so he hired them as the screenplay writers, and Jim Anderson and Brad Lewis being the best producers.

Casting
Originally, Billy West was cast to play Derek Clarke, but Lester didn't like how he did Derek, so he decided to make Billy play as Joel Domber. Lester had then recently saw trailers for Shrek 2 while watching TV, and he knew exactly who to cast as Derek, Mike Myers. He thought that Mike Myers would do the role great due to how he can make his voice sound nothing like himself. He contacted Mike Myers, and Mike accepted to do the role. Thomas Lennon had approached Lester a day later, and recommended Jay Leno to play Olivier Brians. Jay had declined the role, but he offered Lennon that he could be in a smaller role in the movie. Lennon accepted his offer and Jay Leno ended up playing some additional voices. Joe Stillman recommended Will Ferrell to play Olivier. Lester thought he fit the role, so he contacted Will Ferrell. However; Lester had made a mistake while contacting Will Ferrell, he had meant to write "Olivier Brians", but instead wrote "Tony Brians". Ferrell accepted the offer. When Ferrell came to the studio, he said "So, I'm playing Tony Brians, right?". Lester had then realized that he made a mistake during when he wrote the offer. Lester had replied to Ferrell, jokingly saying "I dunno who Tony Brians is, but I do know who Tony Robbe is, and you're playing him!". Lester had decided for Ferrell to play Tony Robbe instead of Olivier. Going to be finished later

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