Due Date (2010)
- The incredible score for Due Date was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- The original script for Due Date was written over a decade before production finally began in 2010.
- During the filming of Due Date, Robert Downey Jr. improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Due Date is a 2010 American comedy directed by Todd Phillips. Robert Downey Jr. stars as Peter Highman, an uptight architect trying to get from Atlanta to Los Angeles in time for his wife's scheduled C-section. When he is placed on the no-fly list after an incident caused by Ethan Tremblay, played by Zach Galifianakis, an aspiring actor carrying his dead father's ashes in a coffee can, Peter is forced to accept a cross-country road trip with the infuriatingly oblivious Ethan.
Todd Phillips deployed the mismatched-buddy formula, with Downey's simmering fury playing well against Galifianakis's guileless stupidity. The film contained memorable set pieces including a car crash in which Ethan falls asleep at the wheel and Peter must steer from the passenger seat, and a border crossing incident involving marijuana purchased from a Western Union. Due Date earned $211 million worldwide on a $65 million budget, a solid if unspectacular return following Phillips' massive success with The Hangover.
