Spec Script Sale To Montecito/Paramount

COMMENTS (22)

• Paging Taylor Lautner

  Comment by VEry Curious — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 10:31am PST  Reply to this post

• Hilarious!

  Comment by Jared — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 10:39am PST  Reply to this post

• I loved this script when it came in the other day. Too bad we didn’t get it. Its going to blow Hangover’s numbers out of the water.

  Comment by Assistant — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 10:53am PST  Reply to this post

• This script is fucking hilarious. Can’t wait to see the movie!

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 10:58am PST  Reply to this post

• Ok, I love anyone involved with Sunny. However, this sounds like a “The Hangover” ripoff.

  Comment by njames — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 11:00am PST  Reply to this post

• I love Always Sunny, I love Harold and Kumar, I will probably love this. Tough to sell a spec these days, congrats to all involved.

  Comment by C.R. — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 11:09am PST  Reply to this post

• Cool. A sequel to ‘The Hangover’. Don’t ya just love trends?

  Ugh.

  I clearly wasted my time on my past five specs. They aren’t copycats of any of this past year’s hit movies.

  Comment by Mister — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 12:16pm PST  Reply to this post

  • You poor baby…

    Move back to Iowa.

    Comment by Teddy — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 4:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• Saw this last year when it was called THE HANGOVER.
  I guess this remake is for the aging Disney demographic.

  Comment by Lytton Strachey — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 12:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• can we get a bit of clarification here. If Montecito bought it out of their discretionary, then it’s not actually set up at Paramount. A producer will buy something out of their discretionary with an eye towards setting it up at a studio, there are no guarantees however.
  How many books has Rudin bought out of his discretionary that never see the light of day? Mandalay and Unique do it all the time as well.

  Regardless, these guys are funny, and though I’m only halfway through the script now, it’s more SUPERBAD than HANGOVER. So call it what you want, original or not, it’s funny.

  Comment by dvelopment — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 3:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• This is a very funny script and that’s the reason it sold. Anyone who’s actually read it wouldn’t compare it to The Hangover.

  Comment by BDG — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 3:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• It was just a matter of time for Walsh and Lee. They have been hilarious at Always Sunny…Congrats…

  Comment by birdieman — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 4:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• The script is awful! Read it and it’s a rehash. Found nothing funny about it other than it was so funny how it was trying to be so funny. PASS.

  Thank you.

  Comment by anhonestanswer.com — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 4:28pm PST  Reply to this post

• I immediately thought of “The Hangover” when I heard the description but I’m looking forward to seeing it based on what’s been posted so far.

  Comment by Jackie Venice — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 7:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• If it’s from anyone remotely related to “Sunny,” I’m pretty sure it’s at least funnier than 99% of the stuff released last year.

  Comment by Neil Brimelow — Monday February 22, 2010 @ 10:02pm PST  Reply to this post

• Uh, this sounds nothing like The Hangover anymore than it sounds like a number of “one crazy day” films than preceeded it. Everyone’s so ready to compare. Morons. Pat and Sonny are hilarious.

  Comment by -M — Tuesday February 23, 2010 @ 1:00am PST  Reply to this post

• The Hangover? Guys, Dude Where’s My ID Car wasn’t that long ago.

  Comment by Mouse — Tuesday February 23, 2010 @ 8:49am PST  Reply to this post

• I don’t see the comparison to ‘The Hangover’. The only thing similar is that it’s a comedy. I read the script, it’s really well done and it’s got a much different tone to it than ‘The Hangover’. Hayden and John will do a great job with it. This will be a hit. Amazing how many people hate on young writers who are doing their thing and being successful. If you aren’t selling scripts, then you aren’t doing something right, or you suck at writing and should think of a different career path. Get over yourself, congrats to these young guys – no need to be jealous.

  Comment by El Oso — Tuesday February 23, 2010 @ 11:22am PST  Reply to this post

  • Hey, wait a minute, it sounds like this post was written by a really young guy…

    Comment by Jeffe — Tuesday February 23, 2010 @ 10:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• Having, you know, READ the script, I agree that it doesn’t have much in common with Hangover. The article makes it sound like a movie about a guy who gets wasted on 21 shots and can’t remember where his ID is, so he has to retrace his steps to find it. That would be very similar to The Hangover (or Dude Where’s My Car), but…that’s not the plot of this script. It’s much more of the “one crazy night” or “gotta get to the big party” school of comedy that has worked for decades, and though it isn’t Charlie Kaufman original (what is?), it is a DAMN funny, hard-R rated comedy with sharp dialogue and big set pieces that I can pretty much guarantee will be successful. It also has two exceptionally well-written roles for women, and that alone distinguishes it from not just The Hangover but pretty much every comedy being released these days.

  Comment by The Dude — Tuesday February 23, 2010 @ 3:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• I read 21 shots. It’s fine. No, it won’t surpass The Hangover’s numbers. The reason it got made is there are some funny moments and you have writers who have a track record with TV funny. That and some able bodied agents and managers and you have a spec sale. But this script isn’t breaking the mould, if really does havea Harold and Kumar feel to it.

  Comment by John Morey — Wednesday March 31, 2010 @ 4:20am PDT  Reply to this post

• Anyone know where to get a link to the script?

  Comment by Low Down Philly — Wednesday December 29, 2010 @ 3:24pm PST  Reply to this post