You get the sense as you watch it that there are many untold tales revolving around Buckaroo, the brain surgeon/scientist/rock star, on the scale of something like the MCU or Star Wars. As a result, the film is crammed with meticulous detail that gives the world of Buckaroo a lived-in feel. In the interview, Richter talks at length about how Rauch constructed a whole Buckaroo Banzai universe in his head over the period of a decade, before writing the script that would become the movie. (Everybody ended up walking away from the project because of the legal issues, which ultimately killed it.) The interview was, in part, a way for Richter to get on the record during a legal battle between himself and Rauch against MGM, which was planning a television series reboot of Buckaroo with director Kevin Smith, without Richter or Rauch’s permission.
Richter gave a lot of the credit for the success of his long-standing cult favorite The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! to screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch’s unusually long gestation period on the project.
In an interview from a few years ago, director W.D.
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