Segel, Hill and Schwartzman go adventuring

Posted on August 7, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Adaptation, Directors

I’ve just watched Jason Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008) and most recently in “I Love You, Man” (2009). Segel – you just have to love his work. (Well, Paul Rudd was no slouch in “I Love You, Man” either – great actor!) Anyway, Segel is so funny and there is something honest about the characters he plays. He has a surprising depth, as an actor, but he barely let’s it surface – but it’s there. That’s makes him very… interesting and believable.

The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Segel is attached to star alongside Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in “The Adventurer’s Handbook.”

Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler wrote the script, about four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives and embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey’s book “The Adventurer’s Handbook: Life Lessons From History’s Great Explorers.” Universal picked up the book rights as well as the script in February.

Segel would play a talented musician who never got his act together, becoming a backup piano player and an alcoholic; Hill plays an engineer, isolated from his family; Schwartzman is a spoiled and cowardly three-time Grammy winner.

Production is scheduled to kick off early next year.

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