Comedy of the 2012 is cynical, offensive and way over the top. Gone are the days of the John Hughes -style 80′s comedy with a good spirit and positive undertone – today’s comedy is about people getting drunk, killed, humiliated and ending up dead in the gutter, and then being pissed on by a crack whore.
And we love it.
These are the five most interesting comedies coming out next year.
Ps. I decided not to include my film Iron Sky here because that would be like president voting for him/herself in the elections.
(Umm… I guess they actually do that.)
Directed by Larry Charles (Borat, Brüno)
I’ve always found Sacha Baron Cohen‘s characters stupidly funny, and The Dictator just happens to hit the politically incorrect nerve exactly the right way. Again, Sacha and his court director Larry Charles go way over the top, but in their world, it seems to work. It’ll be a lot of people who are going to get really angry about The Dictator, and that’s what Sascha and Larry are best at – making films that get all kind of bigots, fundamentalists and nationalists enraged. If The Dictator doesn’t get him a death threat or two, nothing will. Although, I bet he’s swamped in them anyway – even I got some due to my work with Star Wreck, and I’m waiting what fun Iron Sky brings to the table.
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh
Remember the John Hughes films in the 80′s, where a teenager decides to throw a big party to all the kids in the school to become the popular one, but then everything goes to shit? Well, Project X has the same concept, but it’s being updated to meet the demands of today’s viewers. Written by Matt Drake (Tully) and Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) and produced by Todd Phillips, known better as the director of both Hangovers, the trailer promises quite a fucked-up crazy party movie, and in addition for being an extremely well-made trailer, it seems like a hell of a lot of fun for the audience that has already seen everything.
Back in 2007 – that’s centuries ago in Internet time – Seth Rogen did an 8-minute short film by the name of Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, and released a trailer of it to the Internet. Something happened, and the short film never actually surfaced. But now – centuries later – a film based on the short called The Apocalypse is about to be shot and released, and it has a cast of some of the funniest men in Hollywood. And they all play themselves.
The story is simple – something has gone south in the world, and the apocalypse is here. Two guys – apparently, now there’s more of them, though – have locked themselves up in a shelter. They are the last survivors – and all of them class A assholes.
“It’s going to be a pretty offensive vision of the apocalypse,” Seth Rogen says to MTV Movies. The film has a budget of 30 million USD.
The trailer for the short film is here:
Directed by Adam Shankman (Hairspray, The Pacifier)
I don’t like musicals, but I like 80′s hard rock, and I like Tom Cruise. Yeah, I know you want to start whining something about Cruise, but why not shut the hell up and watch some of the great films he’s done instead. Try Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, for example. Or you might say Tom is not very funny – well, one of the best roles he’s done is in Tropic Thunder, and he’s funny as hell. And this time, Tom Cruise is playing a hard rock legend, and although he’s not the main character, his presence somehow cements the fact that this film has a lot of class, style and good meininki in it. Meininki is Finnish and means good times. Sort of.
Every /b/-tard‘s and Redditor‘s wet dream – the film where all the Internet memes become alive and part of the feature film plot – is happening. An American VFX company Nurv has (rick)rolled it’s sleeves and slammed together a concept teaser, by which they hope to get studios and A-list stars interested.
The plot is an Alice In Wonderland -type of story about a guy who gets lost in the wild world of the Internet, in search of a girl he met at an Internet chatroom. The imaginary kingdom of the Internet is hosted by none other than Antoine Dodson – yes, the very Bed Intruder Guy himself – and the film is overloaded with dozens of Internet meme stars (Numa Numa Guy, Boxxy, Tay Zonday and Double Rainbow Guy to name a few). All of them the real deal.
The movie hasn’t been filmed yet, so I’m a bit skeptical on 2012 release, but it has a script, and it’s being actively financed on IndieGoGo, so if you want to see this happen, head on over there and hand them a dime or two.
Anything I missed? Anything that’s not supposed to be there? Let’s hear your thoughts!
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