WATCH: Inside the Sharknado – Mockbusters, Remix Culture, and the Earnestness of Camp

“The government’s not prepared, man,” says Judah Friedlander,
castmember of Sharknado 2: The Second One, when asked if
FEMA would respond to a sharknado effectively. “But Ian
Ziering is.”

Reason TV talked to Friedlander, Ziering, and director Anthony
C. Ferrante about the upcoming sequel to the wildly popular TV
movie Sharknado,
which became a cultural phenomenon inspiring almost 5,000 tweets a
minute and netting SyFy network more viewers than any other
original program had ever done before.

Reason TV also spoke to David Rimawi, CEO of The Asylum, the production and
distribution company that made Sharknado and has created a
name for itself as a producer of low-budget “mockbuster” movies
like Snakes on a
Train
, Transmorphers,
and The
Terminators
, which consistently push the limits of
intellectual property law.

Sharknado 2: The Second One
premieres tonight at 9 p.m.
on SyFy.

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and associated links.

Approximately 4 minutes. Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera
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