The goal for this year's MTV Movie Awards is to finally have a "physical environment that is a manifestation of a passion" for fandom and the movies fans love, said Garrett English, the network's senior vice president of programming, events and live production.
"This is yet another evolution of what we think an award show should look and feel and sound and taste like," he continued. "It's our way of injecting a freshness and intimacy and scale — those things being potentially paradoxical, but we like that — to present the show in a different way."
The awards will take on a festival-type vibe, no doubt borrowing cues from Fox's live broadcast of "Grease!," making unprecedented use of the entire WB backlot. Patterson cited the space as "organic" for the show finally being able to "celebrate movies and fandom where movies are made."
