Hot Tub Time Machine writer Josh Heald recently wrote a short piece about the process of getting his film made.  Regardless of how it actually comes out (opens this Friday, by the way), you have to admit the idea of pitching a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine is pretty awesome.  For instance, did you know the original title was Hot Tub Time Machine: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire? Anyway, it’s a cute story (which you can read below), but more importantly, he describes how he was inspired by the movie you see above, 1984′s Hot Dog.  Is it awesomely terrible?  Well, let’s just say a Chinese guy cracks a peanut shell with a karate chop.  You can’t take an Asian ski team anywhere.
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Movieweb recently spoke with Steve Pink, who has co-writer credits on High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank and directed the upcoming Hot Tub Time Machine.  He said nothing of Cosmic Banditos, on which I believe his production company still owns the option, instead discussing his desire to *gulp* remake Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  *hits computer screen with fly swatter*

[From MovieWeb] Is there any one movie or franchise that you would like to have an opportunity to remake or re-boot?

I only have a really weird answer, which is Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. John [Cusack] and I co-directed the American stage premiere of the movie. We took an adaptation and worked on it. We revised our own adaptation of it and did the American stage production, which ran in Chicago for a couple of months when we had a theater company together. So I would like that because I love Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp’s version but we want to do our own version. So I would love to have a shot at redoing that movie because we really love the Hunter S. Thompson esthetic. So it would be nice. I think there’s a Hunter S. Thompson movie in us too. Everyone gives it a shot but I’m convinced that we know how to do it the best. Sorry great actors Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro and great director Terry Gilliam but I still think we have something to offer in the Hunter S. Thompson cannon of work in bringing it to film, so I’d like to do that.

I’d correct their misuse of “cannon” rather than “canon“, but since Johnny Depp did pay for an actual Hunter S. Thompson cannon to fire his ashes out of, I can’t be 100% sure which they mean.  Anyway, making a Fear and Loathing movie without Hunter Thompson around to write you angry letters is like drawing a dick on the Mona Lisa’s face after she passes out. Don’t do it, Mr. Pink.  And tip your GD waitress.

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(Totally not what I was expecting when I Googled “John Cusack Young Boy”).

After the jump you can watch the new red-band trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, which has more swearing and nudity than my mom’s new boyfriend.   You can also see what Rob Corddry, John Cusack, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke are supposed to look like in the 80s.  Not to mention some sweet John Cusack green screen action.  “Look, grandma, I’m driving a car lol!”  John Cusack probably has a ton of green screen experience after he was in 2012, and from the time he did that music video with Bangs.

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It’s hard to go wrong with a movie called “Hot Tub Time Machine”, but it’s nice to see they assembled a fun group of actors too.  I love Rob Corddry, but if he played Dane Cook or Matthew McConnaughey’s sidekick in a rom-com one more time, I’d… well, I’d throw a pretty big hissy fit, I don’t mind saying *takes drag of cigarette*.  Anyway, here he’s teamed up with Clark Duke, Craig Robinson (my favorite husky black man besides Tracy Morgan), and John Cusack (who’s hopefully not still being a dick to everyone like he was on the 2012 press tour).

The plot looks a lot like the Aspen Extreme episode of South Park.  They basically go back in time and then party like it’s an 80s ski movie.   Though if it were me and I had access to a time machine, I’d go back to when we were kids and molest all the girls who rejected me.  That way I could go back to the present and they’d either have low enough self-esteem that they’d go out with me or they’d be strippers.  Pretty much a win-win.

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The rundown on Hot Tub Time Machine: stars Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, John Cusack, and Rob Corddry, plus is purported to feature appearances by Chevy Chase and Crispin Glover.  Directed by Steve Pink (Mr. Pink, hee hee!), who last did Accepted.  Official synopsis:

After a night of drinking Red Bull and vodkas, a group of guys travel back in time to when they were younger cads.

Honestly, I could sit here all day telling you about Hot Tub Time Machine, but let’s face it: the movie’s called Hot Tub Time Machine.  There’s no way you aren’t going to see it.  In fact, I don’t know why they even bothered making a regular trailer.  The teaser for this movie should just be a border collie with mirrored shades riding around on a skateboard while Huey Lewis & the News sing a rockin jam called “Hot Tub Time Machine.”

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