Exclusive: Spyglass Media Group has made a deal to turn adventure photographer Ben Moon’s memoir Denali: A Man A Dog, A Friendship Of A Lifetime into a feature that will star Charlie Hunnam, with Max Winkler adapting and directing the touching drama about Moon and his 15 year bond with a rescue dog. Max Winkler will adapt and direct. Hunnam will produce Bona Fide Productions’ Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa.
Denali reteams Winkler with Hunnam; they recently collaborated in Lionsgate’s upcoming boxing drama Jungleland, which also stars Jack O’Connell and Jessica Barden. Hunnam earlier worked with Berger & Yerxa on Cold Mountain.
All this started for Moon when he made an eight minute film and called it Denali, simply as a love letter to his dog. It went viral and received millions of views in 2015, winning several festival awards and gaining TV exposure. Five years later, Penguin Random House published...
Denali reteams Winkler with Hunnam; they recently collaborated in Lionsgate’s upcoming boxing drama Jungleland, which also stars Jack O’Connell and Jessica Barden. Hunnam earlier worked with Berger & Yerxa on Cold Mountain.
All this started for Moon when he made an eight minute film and called it Denali, simply as a love letter to his dog. It went viral and received millions of views in 2015, winning several festival awards and gaining TV exposure. Five years later, Penguin Random House published...
- 5/22/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien have sold their comic pitch The Best Thing About Pam Rooney to Universal. The duo will pen the screenplay with the studio developing the project as a starring vehicle for Jonah Hill. Plot details are still being kept under wraps, but Hill will produce the high-concept romantic comedy and the scribes will be executive producers. Cohen and O’Brien come from the Judd Apatow world, having been co-producers on the filmmaker’s latest Funny People. The two are also developing their script Moving In at Montecito Picture Co. and Paramount for Cohen to direct. Cohen previously worked for Apatow as an associate producer on The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Talladega Nights, and O'Brien was assistant to The 40-Year-Old Virgin producer Shauna Robertson. Hill recently completed the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off Get Him to the Greek, which centers on British rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand...
- 8/11/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
If you were ever wondering what would happen if The Darjeeling Limited was less quirky and more adventurous, you're about to get your wish. The Hollywood Reporter posts that there's a new adventure comedy on the way called The Adventurer's Handbook, and Jason Segel will star, along with Jonah Hill and Darjeeling's Jason Schwartzman.
Written by Hill, along with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, the film is an adaptation of Mick Conefrey's book The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons from History's Great Explorers. Rather than a scattershot collection of explorer stories, it'll focus on four childhood friends who are sick of their monotonous lives. Inspired by Conefrey's book, the foursome set off to perk things up with their own adventure. Considering the fact that the book includes helpful tips like "what to do if you are attacked by an anaconda -- you wait until it is has swallowed you...
Written by Hill, along with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, the film is an adaptation of Mick Conefrey's book The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons from History's Great Explorers. Rather than a scattershot collection of explorer stories, it'll focus on four childhood friends who are sick of their monotonous lives. Inspired by Conefrey's book, the foursome set off to perk things up with their own adventure. Considering the fact that the book includes helpful tips like "what to do if you are attacked by an anaconda -- you wait until it is has swallowed you...
- 8/5/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Jason Segel made us appreciate the magic of puppets in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," now he wants to take us to a grand adventure.
Segel is teaming up with Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman for "The Adventurer's Handbook." "Hot Rod" director, Akiva Schaffer, is set to helm for Universal.
Hill co-wrote the script along with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler. The story? The Hollywood Reporter is saying:
Four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers."
Segel, Hill, and Schwartzman, in essence, are all going to play losers. Segel is a talented musician who's an alcoholic and ends up being a backup piano player; Hill stars as an engineer estranged from his family; Schwartzman is a three-time Grammy winner but is spoiled rotten!
Segel is teaming up with Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman for "The Adventurer's Handbook." "Hot Rod" director, Akiva Schaffer, is set to helm for Universal.
Hill co-wrote the script along with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler. The story? The Hollywood Reporter is saying:
Four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers."
Segel, Hill, and Schwartzman, in essence, are all going to play losers. Segel is a talented musician who's an alcoholic and ends up being a backup piano player; Hill stars as an engineer estranged from his family; Schwartzman is a three-time Grammy winner but is spoiled rotten!
- 8/5/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
- I wish there was some kind of graph out there, charting the careers of those who starred in Judd Apatow's short-lived television show: Freaks and Geeks. I mean the show is sort of a factory for actors, apart from Rogen, Franco and Cardllini, we have Martin Starr who was in Adventureland, Samm Levine can be found in Inglorious Basterds, and Jason Segel has been racking up the comedy roles left and right since Knocked Up. Segel will be joining Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in the globe-trotting comedy The Adventurer's Handbook, and making it hard on helmer Akiva Schaffer to direct a scene where two Jasons are involved. Inspired by the book by Mick Conefrey and scripted by Jonah Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, this is about a quartet of pals go on a global adventure, inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers whose tales are chronicled in Conefrey's book.
- 8/5/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Jason Segel is attached to star alongside Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in The Adventurer's Handbook , says The Hollywood Reporter . Akiva Schaffer is directing the comedy for Universal from a script by Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler. The film is about four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives and embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers." Segel would play a talented musician who never got his act together, becoming a backup piano player and an alcoholic; Hill plays an engineer, isolated from his family; Schwartzman is a spoiled and cowardly three-time Grammy winner. Production is schedule to begin...
- 8/5/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Jason Segal, Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman are all appearing in a new picture together and, surprisingly, it has nothing to do with uber-comedy producer Judd Apatow. Hill has appeared with both actors in the Apatow produced "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and Apatow directed "Funny People" and, it appears, helped recruit them to star in the new comedy "The Adventurer's Handbook" which he co-wrote.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the flick will focus on four childhood friends who, bored with their everyday lives, decide to go on a worldwide adventure after reading the stories detailed in Mick Conefrey's novel "The Adventurer's Handbook:...
- 8/5/2009
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
The Adventurer's Handbook is becoming something of an Apatown reunion with Jason Segel signing on the dotted line to join Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in the globe-trotting comedy.Segel will play a once-promising musician who hits the bottle when his career hits the skids. Along with two friends, a lonely engineer (Hill) and a once Grammy-winning artist gone to seed (Schwartzman), he embarks on an extreme, planet-straddling expedition to break the monotony of their lives.Hot Rod's Akiva Schaffer will directing the movie, which is inspired by Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers." Loosely inspired, you'd imagine, since the book recounted the exploits of Ernest Shackleton and Captain Cook, among others, and we can't see Universal sanctioning an actual bid for the North Pole.With his upcoming role alongside Jack Black in Gulliver's Travels, Segel's career has taken a turn for the intrepid.
- 8/5/2009
- EmpireOnline
Unfortunately not a guide on how Marshall Eriksen plans to dish out his last two slaps on Barney Stinson. Instead, it's a Universal-planned reunion of Jason Segel with fellow Apatow alumni Jonah Hill to star alongside Jason Schwartzman in The Adventurer's Handbook. Co-written by Hill, who's also revamping 21 Jump Street, the film will follow a group of longtime friends who plan on ditching their city lives to roam the planet, inspired by the actual Mick Conefrey book The Adventurer's...
- 8/5/2009
- by Tony Lang
- JoBlo.com
Jason Segel, last seen in I Love You, Man, has joined the cast of The Adventurer's Handbook. The film already boasts Funny People's Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman, and will spin the tale of four childhood friends who decide to spice up their boring lives by setting off on a trip around the world. Handbook's script - which was adapted from Mick Conefrey's similarly-titled book - was written by Hill, Max Winkler and Matt Spicer, and Akiva Schaffer is directing. Segel will play a musician who never quite got his career in gear and...
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- 8/5/2009
- by James White
- TotalFilm
Jason Segel, star of last year’s comedy hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, has joined the cast of Universal’s The Adventurer's Handbook. Segel will star alongside Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman, who can currently be seen together in the latest Judd Apatow flick Funny People. Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler wrote the script, about four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives and embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey's book The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers. Segel will play a talented musician who never got his act together, becoming a backup piano player and an alcoholic; Hill plays an engineer, isolated from his family; Schwartzman is a spoiled and cowardly three-time Grammy winner. Akiva Schaffer, best known for his work with Andy Samberg...
- 8/5/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Funny guy Jason Segel is in talks to join Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in Universal Pictures' upcoming comedy "The Adventurer's Handbook."
In the film, four friends bored to death embark on an adventure inspired by the stories and characters in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers."
Hill wrote the script with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, and Akiva Schaffer ("Hot Rod") is directing "Handbook." The Hollywood Reporter says production should kick off next year.
Segel, by the way, would play a musician who spends his time as a backup piano player and alcoholic. Hill is an isolated engineer, with Schwartzman set to play a Grammy winner.
In the film, four friends bored to death embark on an adventure inspired by the stories and characters in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers."
Hill wrote the script with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, and Akiva Schaffer ("Hot Rod") is directing "Handbook." The Hollywood Reporter says production should kick off next year.
Segel, by the way, would play a musician who spends his time as a backup piano player and alcoholic. Hill is an isolated engineer, with Schwartzman set to play a Grammy winner.
- 8/5/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) will be joining Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman for The Adventurer's Handbook for director Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod). The actor is attached to the film, based on the book by Mick Conefrey with the script from Hill and his writing partners Max Winkler and Matthew Spicer. The trio sold the script back in February to Universal, after it was sent over to Hollywood's top studio heads on red, watermarked paper. The project centers on four 20-something guys, who inspired by a book of the same name, set out overseas in search of a mysterious location described in the book. R-rated in tone, the film is still in development and doesn't yet have a greenlight or a start date.
- 8/4/2009
- by Nicole Sperling
- EW - Inside Movies
Jason Segel is attached to star alongside Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman in "The Adventurer's Handbook," a comedy Akiva Schaffer is directing for Universal.
Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler wrote the script, about four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives and embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers."
Universal picked up the book rights as well as the script in February.
Segel would play a talented musician who never got his act together, becoming a backup piano player and an alcoholic; Hill plays an engineer, isolated from his family; Schwartzman is a spoiled and cowardly three-time Grammy winner.
The studio hopes to be in production by early next year.
Eric Fellner and Liza Chasin will produce for Working Title. Anthony Bregman also will be a producer.
Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler wrote the script, about four childhood friends who are bored with the monotony of their lives and embark on a global adventure inspired by the stories of explorers detailed in Mick Conefrey's book "The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers."
Universal picked up the book rights as well as the script in February.
Segel would play a talented musician who never got his act together, becoming a backup piano player and an alcoholic; Hill plays an engineer, isolated from his family; Schwartzman is a spoiled and cowardly three-time Grammy winner.
The studio hopes to be in production by early next year.
Eric Fellner and Liza Chasin will produce for Working Title. Anthony Bregman also will be a producer.
- 8/4/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman are set to star in Universal Pictures' upcoming comedy "The Adventurer's Handbook."
Hill wrote the script with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, inspired by Mick Conefrey's book.
In the film, according to Variety, "a quartet of pals go on a global adventure, inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers whose tales are chronicled in Conefrey's book."
Akiva Schaffer, whose credits include "Hot Rod" and several episodes of "Saturday Night Life," is in talks to direct the project.
Hill was last seen in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." He's got plenty of projects coming up, including "Funny People" and "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian."
As for Schwartzman, he will soon be seen in "The Marc Pease Experience." He's also part of the voice cast of Wes Anderson's animated flick "Fantastic Mr. Fox."...
Hill wrote the script with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, inspired by Mick Conefrey's book.
In the film, according to Variety, "a quartet of pals go on a global adventure, inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers whose tales are chronicled in Conefrey's book."
Akiva Schaffer, whose credits include "Hot Rod" and several episodes of "Saturday Night Life," is in talks to direct the project.
Hill was last seen in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." He's got plenty of projects coming up, including "Funny People" and "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian."
As for Schwartzman, he will soon be seen in "The Marc Pease Experience." He's also part of the voice cast of Wes Anderson's animated flick "Fantastic Mr. Fox."...
- 2/13/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
"Superbad" star Jonah Hill has sold a script he co-wrote to Universal Pictures for a hefty seven-figure deal. "The Adventurer's Handbook" will also be his acting vehicle along with Jason Schwartzman.
The script, written together with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, was inspired by a book of the same name by Mick Conefrey. The plot revolves around four friends who go on a global adventure inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers chronicled in Conefrey's book.
Hill, who will also exec produce along with Spicer and Winkler, is in talks with Akiva Schaffer to direct the film.
Production starts earlier this year.
The script, written together with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, was inspired by a book of the same name by Mick Conefrey. The plot revolves around four friends who go on a global adventure inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers chronicled in Conefrey's book.
Hill, who will also exec produce along with Spicer and Winkler, is in talks with Akiva Schaffer to direct the film.
Production starts earlier this year.
- 2/13/2009
- icelebz.com
Once again I bring you the best round-up of all the movie updates announced in this past week's trade reports. Why read a Ton of articles when you can read just one? This week you have a lot to get excited about with new films from Woody Allen, Werner Herzog, Michael Winterbottom, John Madden, James Mangold and even Ralph Fiennes taking a stab at a directorial debut and that's only the first ten new productions listed. Check out the full list and links are available if the film is in the database already, and remember you can keep up with all new films added and updated on the site right here all week long. Title: Guardians of Ga'Hoole
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: John Orloff, John Collee
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, David Wenham
Storyline: An animated feature film based...
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: John Orloff, John Collee
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, David Wenham
Storyline: An animated feature film based...
- 2/13/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Universal Pictures went shopping for a comedy and picked up The Adventurer's Handbook in a seven-figure deal. To fill their bag, they got Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman as part of the package.
Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman for The Adventurer's Handbook
Akiva Schaffer is in negotiations to direct the comedy, which was penned by Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler. The trio were inspired by the book by Mick Conefrey. While you may not have heard of Schaffer, the helmer has directed plenty of SNL episodes and was the guy behind the camera for Hot Rod.
Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman for The Adventurer's Handbook
Akiva Schaffer is in negotiations to direct the comedy, which was penned by Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler. The trio were inspired by the book by Mick Conefrey. While you may not have heard of Schaffer, the helmer has directed plenty of SNL episodes and was the guy behind the camera for Hot Rod.
- 2/13/2009
- www.canmag.com
Outbidding two other studios, Universal Pictures has secured the rights to "The Adventurer's Handbook," a new comedy that will star "Superbad's" Jonah Hill and "Rushmore's" Jason Schwartzman.Variety reports that Hill, who wrote the screenplay with Matt Spicer and Max Winlker, shepherded the project which was based on Mick Conefrey's non-fiction book. The big screen result will find Hill and Schwartzman as two of four friends who go on a worldwide trek inspired by Conefrey's book. The other two buddies have yet to be cast.Hill just teamed up with Schwartzman on mentor Judd Apatow's "Funny People" and also recruited Akiva Schaffer,...
- 2/13/2009
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
Universal Pictures has acquired The Adventurer's Handbook, a comedy written by Jonah Hill, Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, which was inspired by the book by Mick Conefrey. Hill will star in the flick with Jason Schwartzman. Akiva Schaffer, best known for his work with Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone in the comedy troupe The Lonely Island, is in negotiations to direct. The trio made a name for themselves with a series of internet shorts and music videos. Schaffer has since directed the SNL digital shorts and made his feature directorial debut in 2007 with Hot Rod, a comedy that starred Samberg and Taccone. The Adventurer's Handbook is a comedy in which a quartet of pals go on a global adventure, inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers whose tales are chronicled in Conefrey's book. Hill, star of the hit Superbad, recently worked with Schwartzman in the Judd Apatow-directed Funny People.
- 2/13/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
When you hear the term "global adventure", you may not necessarily think of stout funnyguy Jonah Hill. That's probably why this is a comedy: Hill is starring in Universal's The Adventurer's Handbook. He'll be reuniting with fellow David O. Russell survivor Jason Schwartzman (I Heart Huckabees), as chums who start a world-spanning journey inspired by the chronicles of history's explorers in Mick Conefrey's book of the title. Director and Lonely Island member Akiva Shaffer...
- 2/13/2009
- by Dave Davis
- JoBlo.com
Universal Pictures has acquired The Adventurer's Handbook , a script for a comedy that will star Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman, reports Variety . Hill wrote the script with Matt Spicer and Max Winkler, inspired by the book by Mick Conefrey. Hill also enlisted Akiva Schaffer, who is negotiating to direct. The Adventurer's Handbook is a comedy in which a quartet of pals go on a global adventure, inspired by the hardcore stories of explorers whose tales are chronicled in Conefrey's book. The plan is to start production later this year; Hill, Spicer and Winkler will be executive producers.
- 2/12/2009
- Comingsoon.net
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