It was announced a little while back that Jonah Hill and Russell Brand – who played British rocker and sex crazed Aldous Snow in the fantastic Forgetting Sarah Marshall – would be teaming up for an Apatow produced movie titled Get Him to the Greek. Well, it turns out that Brand will be reprising his role as Aldous Snow in this movie, according to CHUD.
The movie will follow a recently graduated insurance adjuster (Hill) who is hired to accompany the rock star from London to a concert at Los Angeles’s Greek Theater. Of course, hilarity and unpredictable events ensue. No word on whether or not Jonah Hill is playing the same character as he did in Sarah Marshall, but I highly doubt it.
Everybody must have been impressed with Nicholas Stoller’s work directing Sarah Marshall (which was his directorial debut), because he’s on board to direct again although this time he’s taking on the role of writer as well. I reckon the studio enjoyed the $60+ million this made domestically and the 85% approval rating from critics.
I’m more than convinced Brand can carry a movie on his shoulders and I’m interested to see how this turns out. I can think of far worse ideas for a spin-off.
Adapted from the novel by the multiple award winning writing team of Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies, the film is a recounting of the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder, a painter whose life becomes intertwined with that of the aristocratic Marchmain family when he meets Sebastian Marchmain at school. Sebastian and Charles become good friends, though it’s clear from early on that Sebastian is interested in more than just friendship, but things get complicated when Charles is invited to Brideshead, the Marchmain’s ancestral home, for the summer. While there, Charles falls in love with Sebastian’s sister Julia and becomes acquainted with the family matriarch, the cold Lady Marchmain and from that point on, his life becomes forever connected with that of the Marchmain’s. That is the bones of the plot that hold up 
