Earlier today we mentioned a few details about the mysterious, low budget, hard-R comedy currently known as “Project X” produced by Todd Phillips and Joel Silver and set to be directed by British commercial helmer Nima Nourizadeh. This morning we mentioned that the producers are holding an open casting call (so this is your chance to unleash that Real World-style public confessional you’ve been practicing since middle school), making on their promise fill the roles with unknowns, but little was known about what the project might actually be about. Until now.
According to any industry source who spoke to FirstShowing, the film is being described as a “party movie” which a unique twist in which the “will be shot in cinema-vérité style, where the audience will experience the party only through the first-person observer view of the camera, so essentially, we will be at the party too.” The role of the observer, or the person ostensibly shooting the footage, will be voice-over only and the final twist is that this drunken boozy comedy, will be in 3D (ugh). Although its unclear if the movie will actually be filmed in 3D, given its extraordinary low $12 million budget, that doesn’t seem likely.
Raunchy party movies are what Philips does best and by teaming up to produce the project with Joel Silver and having one of the most inventive British music video/commercial directors Nima Nourizadeh behind the camera (making his feature directorial debut) it should at the very least it should be an interesting experiment.
Phillip’s next film, “Due Date”, starring Zach Galifianakis, Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx is set for a November 5, 2010 release. –Sara Laurence
