A lot can happen between script and screen, but it’s hard not to notice that Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s non-Hangover credits include Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Four Christmases, Rebound (that one was about Martin Lawrence coaching a basketball team), Flypaper, and The Change-Up. They’ll get an opportunity to prove themselves in their directorial debut, 21 & Over, the trailer for which is below.

You may remember that Hangover II was about Ed Helms’ journey to prove himself to his disapproving Asian father in law. This one’s about 21-year-old Jeff Chang proving to his disapproving Asian father that he’s his own man. Or at least, it’s about the two white guys trying to keep Jeff Chang from hurting himself so his Disapproving Asian Dad doesn’t kill them. I guess having not written the second Hangover, Lucas and Moore felt like they were missing out on all the Disapproving Asian Dad fun. Oh, Asians. You make the best props for white characters.

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Oh, Justin, don’t you know accepting a Marine’s invitation to ball can lead only to heartbreak and inflatable butt pillows? I should know, I used to live with Uproxx’s own combat veteran, Matt Ufford (he was gentle, but that’s rare). But yeah, the story is that a girl Marine (*RECORD SCRATCH*), following her male counterpart’s example who asked Mila Kunis to the Marine Corps Ball, made her own video asking Justin Timberlake to be her date, and he has accepted.

“I don’t feel backed into a corner at all,” Timberlake joked when asked by a reporter whether he would go. “I’ll tell you what, I accept. But not because she shouted out one of my songs, which I do love … and not because she had all those beefcake military guys behind her to try to intimidate me, although that probably would have worked by itself.
“I don’t get asked out, ever, so I was very flattered by that,” he said, calling it an “honor.”
Timberlake had played a pivotal role in convincing Kunis to accept Sgt. Scott Moore’s YouTube invitation to the Marine Corps Ball. Then enter Cpl. Kelsey De Santis [YES, ENTER HER, JUSTIN! YAY, DOUBLE DOUBLE ENTENDRE!].
“So, Justin, you want to call out my girl Mila. Well, I’m going to call you out and ask you to come to the Marine Corp Ball with me on Nov. 12 in Washington, D.C.,” De Santis said in her own video invite. De Santis is currently the only woman serving at the Martial Arts Center for Excellence at Marine Corps Base Quantico. [FoxNews]

Timberlake went on to say “If my schedule works out, I’ll do it. I’d love to do it.” Whatever, dude, people will work around your schedule. You’re Justin Timberlake, not a heart surgeon. Meanwhile, despite some conflicting reports, Mila Kunis has said several times now that she’s accepting her invitation. If this works out without anyone getting date raped, it could set a fine precedent. While I’m not a Marine myself, I can do almost ten push-ups. But so far, my requests to motorboat Diora Baird have fallen on deaf ears. Come on, baby, don’t be such a prude, your country needs you.

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Take it from me, asking famous actresses you’ve never met out on dates via YouTube usually doesn’t work. But that didn’t stop Marine Sergeant Scott Moore, who gave the rest of us hope when Mila Kunis agreed to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball in November. I think the secret is that you have to be holding a gun.

Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, last week set up a YouTube page and posted a video [after the jump] asking the “Friends With Benefits” star to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball on November 18th in Greenville, North Carolina.

And when FOX411 asked Kunis about the invitation over the weekend, her “Benefits” co-star, Justin Timberlake, assured Moore he was going to make it happen.
“Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? You need to do it for your country,” Timberlake asked Kunis excitedly, before sending out a direct message to Moore. “I’m going to work on this, man. This needs to go down.”
After questioning her publicist if she knew about the invitation, the clearly flattered 27-year-old actress agreed.
“I’ll go, I’ll do it for you,” she said, turning to Timberlake. “Are you going to come?”
“They don’t want me! They want you,” Timberlake responded. “You need to do it for your country.”
Kunis nodded.
“I’ll do it,” she confirmed. [Fox411]

QUIT BEING SO GD COOL, TIMBERLAKE! If I took one lesson from this, it’s that walking through a military base holding your rifle is a lot more impressive to the ladies than walking through their backyard holding the severed head of their pet. Who knew? Hey, Diora Baird, Fluffy says I love you (*manipulates dead cat mouth*).  Seriously though, a hot, famous actress overlooking a potential date-rape threat to fulfill a wish from a combat veteran is the best recruitment commercial the Marines could ever get.  Way better than that one where the black guy learns to swim.

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The red-band trailer and poster just hit for The Change-Up, which comes from Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin (don’t tell anyone he directed Fred Claus) and The Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (don’t tell anyone they wrote Four Christmases and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past). It stars Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds as two buds who mysteriously switch bodies while peeing together in a magical fountain one night.  Under the circumstances, I would’ve called it Body Swap Piss Fountain, but Hot Tub Time Machine bombed, so what do I know.   Anyway, Bateman plays a boring handsome married dude, while Reynolds plays a handsome exciting womanizer.  They switch bodies, and wouldn’t you know it, discover that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.  The trailer is distinguished by its multiple poop scenes.

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(It’s very possibly I’ve had too much coffee this morning.)

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman are set to star in a movie of the ever-popular body-swap genre called Change Up, to be directed by Wedding Crashers‘ David Dobkin.

The project, written by “Wedding Crashers” and “The Hangover” writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, is basically “a responsible guy with a wife gets swapped with his best friend, a lazy man child.” [ThePlaylist]

It sounds great when you say it like that.  Not as great when you say “a body swap comedy from the writers of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Four Christmases, and the director of Fred Claus,” which, sadly, is also true. Fred Claus has been on cable a lot recently.  Check it out if you ever want to see a CGI elf version of Ludacris rap.  So yeah, hope for the Wedding Crashers/Hangover version of this creative team, but don’t hold your breath.  And I don’t know about you, but if I switched bodies with Ryan Reynolds, the first thing I’d probably do is try to jizz on my own washboard abs.  What?  Don’t act like I’m the only straight guy here who’s thought about it.  Oh right, I’m the weird one, whatever, you guys.