Here Comes the Mad Rain

DreamWorks Pictures released today the original documentary Rain of Madness, a companion piece to Tropic Thunder, for download exclusively on iTunes.

Starring Jay Baruchel, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, and Ben Stiller, Rain of Madness serves as a documentary of the making-of the feature film.

It was shot on location in Hawaii, at the same locations used in Tropic Thunder, and details the demise of the fictitious cast and crew of the action comedy, as they struggle to finish shooting their film despite numerous shooting, budgeting, and casting problems.

“We wanted to do a fake documentary about the making of the movie within the movie, which is called Tropic Thunder – not the actual movie Tropic Thunder,” said Stiller, one of the stars of the documentary and the director-producer-star and co-writer of Tropic Thunder.

“The fake documentary focuses on the real movie’s fake director, and what happens to the fake cast before they go into the real jungle. It’s pretty straightforward.”

Sure it is. It sounds pretty funny, though.

Photo: DreamWorks Pictures.