While Jason Segel’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” remains untested as it won’t come out until May, just added to Apatow’s long spate of producing projects is “Five-Year Engagement,” another product from the exact same team – writer-director Nick Stoller and writer-star Segel.
The film is described as (naturally) a “bawdy, couples comedy,” about a… duh, five year engagement. Stoller says the film will essentially be an extension of the not-yet-released ‘Marshall.’ “If Sarah Marshall (played by Kristen Bell) and Jason’s character had stayed together, this might be the sequel,” he said.
Let’s hope for their sake the film tested well and won’t be a bomb.
Meanwhile, the stoner comedy Apatow tapped artisan David Gordon Green to direct, “Pineapple Express,” finally has its finished Huey Lewis theme song.
Speaking with MovieWeb, Green told the site that the self-titled track is complete and even offered up the song’s chorus: “We got trouble, we got to get out of here. I’ve got you, you’ve got me. We are as high as we can be. That’s all right. How did we get into this mess? Pineapple Express!” (watch out Morrissey).
Our only input was, we told him we wanted it to sound like his ’80s work that we loved so much,” Green said. “We wanted to have the plot in it. And we wanted to have him say the title as many times as he could. There is a lot of alto sax. It is kind of like that “other” “Back to the Future” Huey Lewis song. Not “Power of Love” but “Back in Time.”
Apatow’s biblical comedy, “Year One,” started filming earlier this year and yet another Will Ferrell comedy, “Step Brothers” with John C. Reilly is due in July.
Watch: Huey Lewis & The News – “Back In Time”