Judd Apatow screened, “Pineapple Express,” for audiences at the Montreal “Just For Laughs” comedy festival this weekend, a film that Variety scribe Justin Chang didn’t totally love (“[it]emerges as a fitfully funny, tonally trippy but not entirely satisfying effort from the Judd Apatow comic fraternity,” he wrote).
At LAFF, Apatow talked about a few upcoming projects:
– Apparently Charlyne Yi, the little asian stoner girl from “Knocked Up” is developing her own Apatow project (no details on what it is, but she plans to turn the script in to Apatow “soon.”).
– “Get Him to the Greek” the next Apatow project directed by Nick Stoller and featuring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill will shoot next April meaning it will happen before Stoller and Jason Segel’s “Five Year Engagement” (which many of assumed would come first).
– “Funny People,” Apatow’s first directorial effort since “Knocked Up” about stand-up comedians, which stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jason Schwarztman and a host of other troupe mainstays starts shooting in October.
– Asked if he would ever consider acting, Seth Rogen’s ‘Pineapple’ writing partner Evan Goldberg said, “I’d like Seth to cut me in two or blow me up one day” (“Jay & Seth Vs. The Apocalypse,” maybe?)
