Update: EW says all of this is untrue. However, in a super recent March 22) interview with Jason Segel and Paul Rudd at AICN, they say it’s fact.
Russell Brand has already confirmed the fact that Segel is writing songs for “Get Him To The Greek,” and he told AICN, “I’m writing songs for [Russell Brand] and Emily Blunt, who’s playing a Fergie-type character. They start shooting in April.”
So does this mean, Blunt pulled out? One thing that angers us completely is when a studio tries to blanket kill a rumor by saying it’s “false” when the truth is she hoped to be in the film or she was in negotiations to be in it. Segel wouldn’t have brought that up for the hell of it. “False” sounds like total horseshit to be honest.
Previously: After recently pulling out of “Iron Man 2” due to scheduling conflicts, Emily Blunt has found her way into Russell Brand’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” spin-off, “Get Him To The Greek.” According to Moviehole, the casting scoop was revealed by none other than Brand himself during a local radio interview in Australia.
Brand revealed that Blunt will play a pop star in the film who “may duet” with him. She will also join the ever growing list of potential love interests for Brand’s Aldous Snow character who is rumored to have already notched real life pop stars Pink, Christina Aguilera and Katy Perry on his bedpost.
“Get Him To The Greek” is due out sometime in 2010.