Details From Inside Judd Apatow’s Funny People
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You’ve probably heard about Judd Apatow’s next project, a film about standup comics called Funny People, and starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, and Leslie Mann. What you probably haven’t heard is well… anything more than that. Till now everything about the movie has remained tightly under wraps. Tonight though we got our hands on a several pages of the script, which offer a few clues as to what Judd’s up to with this one.
The pages we have focus on a female character named Daisy and her relationship with a pair of roommates and standup comics named Ira and Marc. It’s seven pages, composed almost entirely of dialogue. Apparently Apatow doesn’t improvise everything his characters say on the set, as is sometimes assumed. He has plenty of talking planned. The tone is a lot more serious than any of his other work as well. Ira is in love with Daisy, Daisy is screwing Marc, and everyone seems to be making everyone else uncomfortable. Oh it’s certainly full of all the fuck jokes you’d expect, but it’s also a lot of relationship drama, in fact this thing almost reads like his attempt at a raunched-out, straight-up romance movie.