Why did you choose Billy Squiers “Lonely Is the Night” for the Guitar Hero scene?
That was actually Vince’s idea. He was like, “We should go with Billy Squier!” On the soundtrack for the movie, a lot of the needle drops. If you can appeal to the older generation without alienating the younger one, you can expose some songs to the younger audience that they haven’t heard and you can also be nostalgic for those that know those songs. It’s fun! Guitar Hero has been used a couple of times in films, but it’s fun. We put it in the movie in an extreme way. Absurdly, it amounts to almost a rock concert on the island [Laughs]. We’re all big fans of Rock Band and Guitar Hero too. Vince plays guitar in real life. We’ve all formed bands and had office rivalries [Laughs]. We set it up so they’re really playing. It’s very authentic. Do you play music on set to get everyone into character? We do. For scenes like the one in Eden East where there was a party going on, you traditionally blast music for like the first seven seconds before you yell, “Action.” Then you let it settle and
