Michael Cera's slate

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Right now and for the foreseeable future, anything Michael Cera is in, going to be in, producing, writing or saying is automatically worth considering or checking out. Superbad, of course. Jason Reitman's Juno (Fox Searchlight, 12.14), which will reportedly show at the Toronto Film Festival. A forthcoming Judd Apatow/Harold Ramis comedy called Year One, in which he'll costar with Jack Black. The starring role fo "Nick Twist" in Youth in Revolt, a Dimension Films' adaptation of the C.D. Payne novels (about Twisp "striving to balance out his budding sexual urges while remaining an intellectual teenager in a world of moronic adults") with David Permut producing.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 15, 2007 at 4:53 PM

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MiraJeffAICN says ...

Superbad was great and Cera was fantastic. Looking forward to Revolt. But I'm skeptical of Juno. I know it was considered one of the best unproduced screenplays a couple years ago. I had to do coverage on it and I thought it sucked. That said, the cast they've assembled is impressive. Ellen Page and Cera are a great fit, but I've never been a Jennifer Garner fan and unless The Kingdom proves otherwise, her appearance in a film is the kiss of death. Reitman's a smart filmmaker so I'm hoping he can do something with Diablo Cody's dead-on-the-page script, but I'm not convinced of anything until I see a trailer.

Posted by MiraJeffAICN at August 15, 2007 5:30 PM

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MiraJeffAICN says ...

Oh yeah, and Year One is gonna rock. The writers, Lee Eisenberg (from my hometown) and Gene Stupnitsky, are hilarious and with Cera and Black attached, I fully expect Ramis to recover from his recent slump, even though the guy has done nice work with tiny roles of late in Knocked Up and The Last Kiss.

Posted by MiraJeffAICN at August 15, 2007 5:33 PM

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Rothchild says ...

Juno is one of my favorite scripts of the last few years.

Posted by Rothchild at August 15, 2007 5:36 PM

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The Winchester says ...

Out of curiosity, Jeff, have you ever waatched Arrested Development? He's terrific in that.

Posted by The Winchester at August 15, 2007 5:38 PM

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carla kolchak says ...

You know you can watch his web show here (http://clarkandmichael.com/), eh?

Posted by carla kolchak at August 15, 2007 6:28 PM

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Tim says ...

Second The Winchester on Arrested Development. Best TV comedy ever and Cera is such a natural at such a young age it's scary.

Posted by Tim at August 16, 2007 9:17 AM

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thegoldenchalice says ...

As a huge fan of Cera's since his days as George Michael on the mind blowing Arrested Development, I've recently found myself scouring the web for other projects he's been involved in. A few days ago, I came across a short film entitled DARLING DARLING on the iTunes store, that's quite tickled my fancy. It's a pretty bizarre little number, but as per usual, Mr. Cera is in hilariously perfect form, it seems ad libbing some great stuff throughout the filmmaker (some chap called Matthew Lessner's) oddball script. For any fans of the indomitable Michael Cera, this comes highly recommended. (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMovie
?id=260697254&s=143441)

Posted by thegoldenchalice at August 16, 2007 11:36 AM

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