Drillbit Taylor Movie Trailer
Judd Apatow is on a roll. 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and SuperBad (which I had a chance to see during Comic-Con. It’s possibly the best teen comedy since American Pie.) And Apartow isn’t wasting any time. He’s striking while the iron is hot and cranking out so many movies, a backlash is bound to happen sooner or later. I mean, he can’t make all hits, can he?
Also at Comic-Con I was able to see the trailers for two new Apatow produced projects. Walk Hard, a music comedy starring John C. Reilly, and Drillbit Taylor, an Owen Wilson comedy about two kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully. Apatow wrote the Walk The Line spoof, Seth Rogen wrote Drillbit. And I must sadly report that I was disappointed by both of the trailers.
Director Steven Brill who played Seth Rogen’s boss in Knocked Up hasn’t been hired in Hollywood since the horrendous 2004 “comedy” Without a Paddle. He was also the “genius” behind Little Nicky, so I guess that’s the level of film we should expect from Drillbit Taylor.
I’ve been a fan of all these guys since the beginning (Judd with Cable Guy/Ben Stiller Show, Rogen with Freaks and Geeks, Wilson with Bottle Rocket, and Reilly since Hard Eight). So I really want to like these flicks, but the trailers alone weren’t enough to sell me. The Walk Hard trailer will be attached to SuperBad which hits theaters in a couple weeks, but you can watch the Drillbit Taylor trailer now after the jump.
You can also watch the trailer in higher resolution at this link.
R-Rated SuperBad Clip Online
I can’t stress this enough: SuperBad is the best teen comedy since American Pie. It’s a must see, no questions asked. A new R-Rated clip recently “leaked” onto YouTube. It features a segment of the film where Jonah Hill tells the story of his childhood phallic drawing problem. I wonder what the MPAA must think about a clip like this being on YouTube. It’s been up for five days now, so Sony and the MPAA obviously don’t care.
Check it out after the jump, and see SuperBad when it hits theaters on August 17th.
Sydney White Poster and Movie Trailer
Okay, so I’m not as anti-remake or sequels as most critics. I’m probably the only one who was looking forward to Disturbia, D.J. Caruso’s contemporary teen thriller remake of Hitchcock’s Rear Window starring Shia LaBeouf. The teen audience certainly showed up in numbers and the movie was pretty decent to boot. But ever since the idea was first announced, I have expressed my distain for this teen romantic comedy adaptation of Snow White. Amanda Bynes headlines this debacle as Sydney White, a 20-year-old college freshman who pledges her late mother’s once-dignified sorority, but finds a new home with seven outcasts and attempts to transform the school’s misguided social hierarchy.
The movie trailer is now online, and it looks to be as horrible as possibly imagined. Does this film have any hope? Nope. But if it did, it would come in the form of director Joe Nussbaum. You may not reccognize the name, but you’ve seen his short film George Lucas in Love, which went viral on the internet before viral was a buzzword. Nussbaum disappointed many geek fanboys by going on to direct the John Hughes-esque pre-teen comedy Sleepover. 27-year-old first time feature film screenwriter Chad Creasey’s biggest credit is assisting uber-screenwriter John August on his Sundance indie film The Nines. The movie will hit theaters on September 21st 2007. Click on the poster to the right to enlarge and check out the trailer after the jump.
SuperBad Stars talk Fame, Green Hornet, SuperBad Sequel and More
On Monday July 30th I rushed back to San Francisco, exhausted from Comic-Con, to the Four Seasons Hotel to sit down with SuperBad stars Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. The trio come off as a down to earth group of friends with impeccable timing and comic awareness. I was able to catch SuperBad while at Comic-Con, and I’ll say this: it’s the best teen comedy since American Pie. And like Judd Apatow’s other movies (he produced SuperBad), the dialogue and banter between the cast seems so real and un-movie-like. And some of that was part of the great script, and some of that was thanks to a bit of on-set Improv.
“[Improv] never changed the intention of the scene. The script was very well written,” SuperBad star Jonah Hill told. “James L Brooks movies always had these really good conversations that he was putting into his movies. I hate when dialogue feels like it’s super-written. You can almost see the actors thinking about what they have to say.”
Hill is currently writing three movie projects.
“Two for two different studios with Judd Apatow producing. I’m going to star in both of them. And the third one I’m writing with two of my friends. The one for Universal is called The Middle Child. The one for Sony is still untitled and I’m still in the preliminary. But Middle Child I’m on my third draft of, so we’re hoping to find a director and start shooting soon.”
Hill started his writing career on SuperBad, and helpted out on The Pineapple Express, which is also written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
“Judd hires people that he knows are good writers. He’s pushed me to write my movies.”
And as for the Green Hornet Movie that Seth Rogen is signed to script, Hill says “I imagine I’ll help out on it. They all live within three blocks of each other. So I imagine I’ll be there when it’s being written.”
And as for a SuperBad sequel, Hill responds “We talked about it. But also like the movie hasn’t come out yet. No one could go see it, and the talk would instantly go away of there being a sequel.”
But it seems like even Jonah seems not to believe his self deprecating hypothetical. I have a feeling this movie will make lots of money. But money isn’t a good enough reason to make a sequel.
“My favorite movie is Rushmore and I’d never want a sequel to that,” says Michael Cera. “It’s so perfect, the story is completed.”
You can listen to the roundtable interview below. After the jump we have provided a listing of time-coded chapter stops.
00:00 Meeting at Henry Winkler’s 60th Birthday Party
00:46 Christopher Mintz-Plasse on the “McLoving” nickname
02:45 “We are the most unexciting people you will meet. We play Guitar Hero!”
03:30 Jonah Hill’s Imitation of Lindsay Lohan
05:00 Talking about Fame
06:30 Creating Realistic Banter on the Screen
08:30 Michael Cera talks Clark and Michael
08:50 Jonah Hill is writing three projects
09:40 On Writing Scripts
10:10 On Finding a Good Script
10:50 On Living the Dream
11:30 Hill: “I’m not doing an impression of [Seth in the movie].”
13:35 Meeting the Real Fogell
14:00 Hill: “knowing them, it was more like Evan was Fogell”
14:50 The Raunchy Material
15:15 Christopher’s Mother Comments
16:05 The Green Hornet Movie
16:35 The Culture of Advance Movie News
17:30 The loss of Surprise in Moviegoing
18:00 The Darjeeling Limited and There Will Be Blood
18:30 An Arrested Development Movie?
18:50 The Worst Question EVER
19:05 A SuperBad sequel
19:55 Developing Comedic Style
21:20 Mixing Genres with Comedy