 Kaufman meant his cameo to link the two movies, as if he had been "metaphorically" running around the country since the original film shouting out his warnings, making the film a stand-alone sequel.While they were filming the scene, in the Tenderloin, Kaufman recalls that a naked man lying on the street awoke and recognized McCarthy.After learning that they were filming the remake of the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", he told McCarthy that that film was better.