The red-band trailer for Judd Apatow’s Funny People just hit the web and judge me all you want, but this looks awesome. Knocked Up was awesome too and so are dick jokes and drinking beer and quoting Anchorman so screw you, hippies. The trailer premiered over on MySpace, and just in case you forgot MySpace was a sponsor, there’s also scene in which Adam Sandler’s character does stand up in front of a giant stage backdrop that says MySpace. I heard there’s even a special edition 3-D version of the trailer that you have to watch with glasses that say “MySpace” on the inside. Too bad it takes forever to load because they let random chicks change the background song to suit their mood. That might have been a bad idea.
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Much like Tropic Thunder, it’s looking like the best part the upcoming Judd Apatow-directed Funny People might be the virals and fake movies within-the-movie. These videos (above and below) are the latest to hit the web. They’re from the (fake) TV show starring Jason Schwartzman’s character - a self-obsessed NBC TV star on a show called, “Yo, Teach…!” (I’m assuming they’ll eventually be part of the DVD extras). You may notice that one of Schwartzman’s students is Bo Burnham, the painfully dorky YouTube rap sensation with whom Apatow is supposedly writing the “anti-High School Musical.” It’s not that I’m not impressed by this kid’s songs, it’s just that his comedy is… different. It’s the kind of comedy that says, “Let’s never hang out*.”
[via ThePlaylist]
It’s been three months since the trailer for Funny People came out, but these three new TV spots should refresh your memory. It’s Judd Apatow’s third movie as a director, and Adam Sandler’s first movie since Punch Drunk Love that doesn’t look like the brainchild of an Eastern bloc immigrant who just learned English last week (“He ees hair dresser, but also Jew, spy, and sex macheen. Ees funny, no?”). Anyway, I actually like the commercials more than the trailer, probably because they focus more on the Adam-Sandler-making-fun-of-himself angle than the guy-getting-cancer angle. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have high hopes for this, but in the end I’ll be happy if Sandler doesn’t talk in a funny voice the whole movie.
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IESB has five clips from The Darjeeling Limited, including one called "What Happened to Your Face?", which happens to be my favorite pickup line. Probably the reason I’m always getting laid.
Welcome Aboard
We Haven’t Located us Yet
What Happened to Your Face
I Don’t Feel Good About Myself
Is That My Belt
He Escaped
Owen Wilson Interview
Anderson’s best movies (Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums) were co-written by Owen Wilson, while Noah Baumbach co-wrote Life Aquatic - perhaps why Owen decided to get all emo and try to kill himself. Always remember kids, up the river, not across the street. And if all else fails, use a gun.
This time around the co-writers were Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola. I don’t really know who Roman Coppola is, but I hate his guts and I hope he dies.
Petite Update: Hairy’s hilarious comment about pickup lines reminded me of this article in Radar Online. My favorite? "Gather ’round if you love limericks."
UPDATE: GEORGE CLOONEY WILL BE THE VOICE OF MR. FOX
Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are the latest actors to be confirmed as voices in Wes Anderson’s upcoming stop-motion animation adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl. via /Film:
The settings will be very natural. We want to use real trees and real sand, but it’s all miniature.
Wow, sounds creepy as fuck. The way all children’s book adaptations should be. Kinda reminds me of the stop motion zombie flick I made in college, starring a couple dead hookers. What prima donnas they were.
Look, I know Wes Anderson’s a scarf-loving hipster intellectual and all, but after watching Hotel Chevalier, I have to admit, he’s still probably the best production designer in Hollywood. Nothing looks quite so meticulously storyboarded and choreographed as an Anderson production. One only hopes this one will have fewer disgusting lip-smacking sounds. And seriously? Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman? If I wanted to watch midget porn, I’d watch… uh, midget porn.
