Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) will be joining Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman for The Adventurer’s Handbook for director Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod). The actor is attached to the film, based on the book by Mick Conefrey with the script from Hill and his writing partners Max Winkler and Matthew Spicer. The trio sold the script back in February to Universal, after it was sent over to Hollywood’s top studio heads on red, watermarked paper. The project centers on four 20-something guys, who inspired by a book of the same name, set out overseas in search of a mysterious location described in the book. R-rated in tone, the film is still in development and doesn’t yet have a greenlight or a start date.
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The last time EW did a news story on “The Adventurer’s Handbook”, you said Akiva Schaffer was only in talks to direct. A week after that story was published, I got to meet Akiva and I asked him if he was indeed going to direct, to which he said he had just officially signed on to do it. (Exclusive!) Where’s my credit? (Kidding.)
“I was talking with Akiva the other day after I had lunch with Keanu. Me and AnJo(that’s what I call Angelina, by the way) thought he was fabulous!”
You’re an idiot. Go drop names elsewhere.
Elsewhere? But HI’s tagline is “The Talk of Tinseltown”! Heh.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they did this movie with puppets? I hope they don’t try make Jason Segal and action star, like they tried with Brendan Fraser. Douchie people should just give up and stick to comedies.
FAIL. BOO. MAJOR SUCKUS. HORRIBLE. RINSE. REPEAT.