Jonah Hill’s silver screen adaptation of “21 Jump Street” has now been given an August 2011 release date.
The film, which will be helmed by “Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs” duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller, was originally described by Hill as an “R-rated, insane ‘Bad Boys’ meets John Hughes-type movie.”
“It’s a comedy with really cool action,” adds Hill. “We’re not doing something serious like ‘Miami Vice.’ But it’s not a parody. It’s a funny movie with a lot of great action and a real story.
Shooting will take place later this year from a script by ‘Scott Pilgrim’ scribe Michael Bacall and Joe Gazzam. No cast has been set — its not even known if Hill will star in it himself having masterminded it — but the star did once promise that “it’s going to have some of the funniest people around in it, and it’s going to be really funny” so there’s certainly a lot of live up to.
But surely they’ve got something up their sleeve. An August release is a bit of a vote of confidence these days with films like Adam McKay’s “The Other Guys” and Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” dropping that month this year and Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” last year.
Jonah Hill, as a human being, is a fine person, I'm sure. His face though, is made for character actor roles. You have to know, they'll populate the roles with pretty young faces with genetically superior anatomy. Its possible Mr. Hill will be upstaged by one who will continue on to Depp like success.
Hollywood irony its a b. Pretty people wanted to be taken more seriously beyond the usual constricts of their pretty faces. While their less, facially endowed counterparts, want to be taken seriously as leading men.
Because summer 2011 wasn't crowded enough all ready…
As bad as this project sounds on its face, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was a very well-written cartoon, so the benefit of the doubt has been granted.