Cinematical has the first look at the poster for Judd Apatow’s forthcoming stand-up comedians with adult problems film, “Funny People” which stars Seth Rogen, Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann and supporting roles for Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill, and Eric Bana. It’s a little underwhelming, but it’s poster for a comedy, you can’t expect dazzling design.
The script for “Funny People,” is excellent and has a lot of mature and tearful notes that hopefully the Apatow-gang can hit (it’s probably the best he’s written thus far). A lot of it has the similar “emotionality” (if we can borrow a word from Kurt Lazarus), that “Knocked Up” has, but with a darker and potentially sadder tone if executed well. It’s not much to look at, but here it is.
The real news however, is that the film now has a real release date now, July 31, 2009.
As we’ve mentioned before, “Funny People’s” screenplay features an appearance by the real-life Bruce Springsteen in a dream sequence, references a Wilco concert and features music by Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, Warren Zevon and Ted Hawkins among others. We’ll see if the soundtrack supes clear them for the film. We don’t see why they couldn’t.
