Here’s the trailer for Freerunner, which seems like a lock to steal the all-time box office record from Avatar. Yes, Sean Faris is doing great. It seemed like only yesterday he was fighting Cam Gigandet in MMA movies and being interviewed by Michigan high school newspapers, and now he’s back, playing an ace freerunner, who’s going to need all his free running skills of being able to climb down stairs and quickly slide across car hoods if he’s going to outrun a mad man who’s been knocking off free runners. But why would someone do such a thing? Well it turns out out he just really hates free running. The best motive is no motive, as countless poorly-written movies have told us.

My favorite moment is at the 17-second mark when there’s an out-of-context shot of a nerd saying “SH*T YEAH!” after Sean Faris captures the other team’s flag. IT’S LIKE HE’S DOING AN IMPRESSION OF ME WHEN I’M WATCHING SEAN FARIS PULL OFF BADASS PARKOUR MOVES! Then there’s a two-second montage that shows 1. parkour fighting 2. sexy dancing 3. Kanye shades 4. vodka drinking. IT’S SO RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS!! WHICH FOCUS GROUP DID YOU USE??!? This could be the hippest movie of all time. It’s so cutting edge it’s already played out. SAVE THEM, SEAN FARIS! SAVE THEM USING YOUR FREE RUNNING!

Look for it soon wherever DVDs are sold.
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Sean Faris’ prison rugby movie Forever Strong today released some new viral teasers about what happens when you mix rugby with other non-tackly sports like Badminton, Golf, and… uh… Football.  The best part is how they shake the camera around all crazy.  I can’t tell what’s going on, but it really makes it look like them newfangled YouTube videowhatsits the kids are always talking about nowadays. 

I’m pretty excited. I really think Forever Strong has a chance to do for American rugby what Air Bud Spikes Back did for beach volleyball. 

Trailer after the jump

Following his star turn in the MMA-meets-The OC drama Never Back Down (some folks are already talking Oscar) Sean Faris is back in another hardass-sports movie, Forever Strong, about a prison rugby team ["prison rugby" is also a great euphemism for gay sex].  As a former college and men’s club rugby player and current muay thai enthusiast, I’m thrilled with the way Hollywood is portraying my favorite sports.  I expected them to cheapen and sensationalize them like they do everything else, but Sean Faris is the perfect choice.  With his high cheekbones and lanky, hairless body, he reminds me of so many of my friends and teammates who get hit in the face all day.  In fact, we all look exactly like that.  And our manager looked just like Sean Astin.  Come to think of it, I think it was Sean Astin.

Bonus observation for the other three rugby players reading this:  I especially enjoyed them showing him wearing number 14, then number 12, and then being in the front row for a scrum*.  This guy can do everything!

*Explanation for the three non-rugby players who care: Forwards, the players who are involved in a scrum, wear numbers 1-8. Backs, the players who aren’t in scrums, wear numbers 9-15. Higher numbers are reserves.

Our buddy Sean Faris (a tough kid who leads with his fists, and often his heart) is back to talk Never Back Down and tell us how grueling life is when you’re a model/actor.

If I ever spoke ill of Faris’ acting skills, I owe him an apology. Anyone who can pretend to take this movie seriously this long deserves some credit.  Intercut with the hilariously self-serious interview are clips from the movie, in which Djimon Hounsou throws a cinder block over the moon, and Faris schools fools in an underground male-model Fight Club that just might save the rec center.  GRR, RAP-METAL!  

Man, nothing gets the adrenaline pumping like a kneebar and a Papa Roach album.

[thanks to Robby for the tip] 

Never Back Down star Sean Faris was recently interviewed by Lanie Barron of The Seaholm Highlander, a high school newspaper in Birmingham, Michigan.   I hope Lanie’s okay, because Faris sounds dangerously hardcore.

"I don’t have any fear or insecurity of anyone who wants to approach me and start something," added the self-assured actor.  "I will happily defend myself.  When they see that I have no fear, they’re like, ‘what have I gotten myself into?’"

Omg, run for your lives he’s a male model! Of course, his confidence isn’t limited to the octagon bars where Paris Hilton hangs out.   

Sean is also in the middle of producing his own independent film, The Glass Eye, a film he feels especially passionate about. "It’s phenomenal.  Sean Penn will sit down and watch that movie and say, ‘Damn, that was a good movie.’  I’m doing those to gain respect."

Wow, Sean, you’re a really cool guy. What can high school kids do to be like you?

"I don’t recommend going to college if you want to be an actor… If you want to be an actor the thing you need to do is go to classes in LA and go take the college of life."

Apparently, classes at "the college of life" involve modeling and Michael Bay movies. I think they should add a new Oscar category for keeping it real and give the award to Sean Faris, seeing as how he keeps it so real.  They could set up a bookshelf next to the podium and when they announce his award, Faris could smash through it in a yellow Hummer and then jump out and do that WWE crotch gesture thingie and be all like "Suck it, books!" And then he’d headbutt the presenter and leave the stage with Disturbed playing – OOO WHA AH AH A!