Focus Features Buys Steve Carell Pic ‘Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World’

COMMENTS (17)

• Great script and a great role for Carell… hope it turns out well.

  Comment by RP — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 3:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Crap. This movie is going to ruin a good Chris Cornell song for me.

  Comment by Bruce_F — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 3:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • the only problem with that statement is that there’s no such thing.

    Comment by logitekkie — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 10:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Let me guess, the guy reunites with his school-age girlfriend only to see that she looks like Roseanne Arnold, then realizes that the love he has been searching for has been under his nose the entire time, so he hooks up with his travel companion instead. Whoa, I didn’t see that coming! Then the dreaded asteroid misses Earth by a few hundred thousand miles and the world doesn’t end after all. The school-friend, furious over the rejection and the money wasted on diets and fat cures, shoots them both. FADE OUT.

  Comment by Hank Petchow — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 3:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Actually, none of that happens. Which wouldn’t matter if your post was actually funny. But it’s not.

    Comment by Nope — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 7:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Hank you got every guess absolutely wrong except for the one about him hooking up with his travel companion but since they’ve already said those are the two lead roles of the film and they cast Keira Knightly as the companion that one’s a little more than obvious.

    So it’s still funny how you could be so sure of yourself and so completely wrong at the same time.

    Comment by Smitty — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 10:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • read the screenplay first before making yourself look like an idiot

    Comment by lol — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 3:28am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Like that’s easy to legally find.

      Comment by ILDC — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 9:24am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Seeking a Friend is one of the best scripts I’ve read in a very very long time. It’s clever, witty and original, so everything that Hollywood desperately needs. I’m really looking forward at how they’ll bring this script to the screen. If they do a good job, this movie could be a winner. So Hank, please stop talking about things you don’t know s hit about, it annoys the cr ap out of me.

    Comment by computerharvey — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 12:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hank- I like the way you think! Call me, i’m a huge bi-curious producer of such hit films as mall cop and click.

  Todd G

  Comment by todd g — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 4:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is one of the best scripts I’ve read in years. Had to read it twice to be sure it was as well written, well conceived as I first believed. Tone is pitch perfect. Tragic, sad, funny, but totally original. A lot changes during shooting so we’ll see but the script is damn near perfect.

  Comment by KL — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 7:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yes it’s totally believable because a great beauty like Kiera Knightly (the “face of” Chanel no less) would easily fall for someone like Steve Carell. I mean it’s the “sense of humor” that REALLY turns women on, not superficial things like looks, height, age appropriateness, swagger and good ol’ hunkiness.

  Nerdfest.

  Comment by sweet and shy little me — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 8:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Sheesh, he’s 48, she’s 26 . Only in Hollywood.

    Comment by vf — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 3:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wrong the movie does end with the destruction of the world

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 9:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• OK, a good idea, and it looks great for Carrell. Yeah, Knightley and Carrell will hate each other, until they realize they’re in love – more than a stretch. But it’s fresher turn on it than the vast majority of what I’ve seen and read lately.

  I know, I know – the studio, Knightley and Carrell have all been waiting hear what I think – NOW the production can begin.

  Comment by Comedymaven — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 10:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It is so refreshing to see Keira Knightley in an American movie. I hope she does more of them from now on.

  Comment by James Merrick — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 11:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So for all you people who claim to have read the script, what part do you think William Petersen is going to play?

  Comment by onthecorner — Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 10:25am PDT  Reply to this post