![]() The film's opening moments are curiously stilted. The unlikely couple attempt to patch together a relationship for the sake of their unborn child, but will it last? She forgets all about their brief encounter until, several weeks later, she finds out she's pregnant. When Alison comes round the next morning, nursing a swollen head and a whopping sense of regret, she's repulsed by Ben and resolves to nip their relationship in the bud. In the throes of passion, Ben fails to proffer a prophylactic, and nature takes its course. Pudgy, idle Ben (Rogen) enjoys a night of groin-grinding excitement with stunning, career-minded Alison (Heigl) after they meet in a boozy LA nightclub. ![]() ![]() Knocked Up, Apatow's latest smash, attempts to mine humour from an all-too-familiar comic scenario. Yup, Judd Apatow got his break penning funnies for Roseanne Barr. That's pretty good going for a man who started his career writing jokes "as if I were an overweight, middle-aged housewife". ![]() And his well of humour hasn't dried up yet: next year, no fewer than six movies will bear his name on their production credits. This gentleman - an unassuming, slightly nerdy New Yorker - wrote, produced and directed The 40-Year-Old Virgin, snagged production credits on a couple of better-than-average Will Ferrell flicks ( Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), and leant his creative nous to Superbad, the most hyped comedy of the autumn. Over the last few years, one film-maker has tickled the world's funny bone like a clown on speed. The film co-stars Albert Brooks, Megan Fox, Jason Segel, Chris O’Dowd, Lena Dunham, Melissa McCarthy, John Lithgow, Charlyne Yi, Maude and Iris Apatow and more, including Ryan Lee from “ Super 8” who apparently plays Maude’s love-interest in the film (see the clip below). “This Is 40” lands in theaters on December 21st.Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel, Steve Carell “And after Nick Stoller and Jason Segel made ‘ Forgetting Sarah Marshall,’ I thought it was a fantastic idea to do a movie about Russell Brand’s character, which became ‘ Get Him to the Greek.’ I thought, ‘Yes, you can do a legitimate movie that’s about someone you met in a different film,’ and when I told Universal, they didn’t think I was insane for thinking this would be an interesting exploration, just like ‘ Rhoda‘ was an interesting exploration after ‘ The Mary Tyler Moore Show.’ “įilm Comment also provide three new images from the film which you can see below and above. ‘ Pineapple Express‘ came out of an idea I had when I was watching ‘ True Romance.’ I just thought the Brad Pitt character was so funny he’s a mess, he’s on drugs and suddenly people are trying to kill him, and I thought, ‘I want to watch a whole movie where this guy’s trying to get away from killers but it’s really hard because he’s high,’ ” he explained. I like characters in certain movies and I wish they had their own, stand-alone movies. “Part of it is also that I wish more people made movies like this. Maybe on the DVD extras which tend to be rather long in Apatow films (and the film itself is over two hours).But, why a spin-off film you ask? Well, as Apatow notes in part of his response, he’s kind of made, or at least been part of, three of them so far. A glimpse at what probably happened to Ben and Alison, even though it’s not in the final film. They’re a fabricated, exaggerated version of Leslie and myself at two different ages.” They were always meant to be the future for them, and in a lot of ways in ‘Knocked Up,’ Ben and Alison and Pete and Debbie are meant to be the same couple. But when I was conceiving the movie, my interest wasn’t in what happened to Ben and Alison, because Pete and Debbie in a way are Ben and Alison. ![]() “I shot a version where Pete talks about how Ben and Alison live in Atlanta where she works for CNN. “I shot some stuff, in case the audience demanded to know,” Apatow said in a recent interview with Film Comment. Ben gave it to me last Christmas.” And evidently that’s the only reference to the couple at all.īut apparently Apatow tried to include further nods to the couple, but they didn’t make the final cut. In the script (and final movie) Pete says in one scene referenced in the trailers, “You know what I brought? A medical marijuana cookie. screenwriter Brian Dunfield), there is no cameo, and no real mention of the duo, aside from a pot-cookie reference that can be found in the script that was recently put online by Universal. recently (here’s one early review) and as suggested (and confirmed by L.A. Jason Segel Says Judd Apatow Made ‘Freaks and Geeks’ Cast Stars Out of ‘Revenge’ for Series Cancellation ![]()
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