Oh man -- I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall again over the weekend (I first saw it at SXSW back in March) and the laughs held up beautifully; it really is a comic treasure, even if it does suffer a bit from the typical Apatow bloat. So this is great news for me: director Nicholas Stoller is reteaming with Judd Apatow for Get Him to the Greek, a comedy starring Sarah Marshall's Jonah Hill and Russell Brand. Hill will play a young insurance adjuster assigned to get a wild rock star (Brand) from London to LA's Greek Theater for a gig. I don't dispense headline exclamation points willy-nilly, so you know I'm excited.The idea was apparently hatched at a Sarah Marshall table read, where Hill and Brand exhibited a surprising chemistry. They only had a few scenes together in that film, and since I thought Hill's character was generally a weak spot, I spent most of those scenes being mildly annoyed. But I've seen Superbad, so I know that Hill has the funny, and Brand, whom I had never heard of before Sarah Marshall, has some of the movie's biggest laughs. So: more, please.
Stoller will write Get Him to the Greek in addition to getting back in the director's chair. He has some other projects in the works, including Five Year Engagement, which he will direct and co-write with Jason Segel. He's also working with Segel on his planned Muppet movie. And he co-wrote the screenplay for Jim Carrey's Yes Man, due in December. Busy guy; lucky, too.
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4-23-2008 @ 10:57AM
Travis Tidmore said...
Awesome. I originally saw FSM back in October and when I saw it this weekend I forgot how funny Brand was in the film. I'm very excited about this new movie, it sounds like it will be great.
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4-23-2008 @ 12:59PM
YouFaceTheTick said...
Brand was about the only really good thing in the pretty bland Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Segel is just not lead material and his script while good at times - making Kristen Bell's character human was a nice touch - just lacked in regard to the lead.
Still if it's got Brand and Jonah Hill (also not a big fan but he can be funny once every 4 jokes), with apatow we'll at least try it for a cheap movie.
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