Hot off his success in The Hangover Part II – which just broke the $500 million dollar mark globally – Ed Helms is already lining up new projects. Deadline says that the actor, who also appears on television’s The Office, will star in True North for Warner Bros. Based on a pitch from writer Rob Pearlstein, True North finds Helms playing an arrogant travel show host named Brian North. On a constant search for fame and celebrity, North spends more time traveling the globe than with his wife and kids. When his plane crashes in India, North spends two years in a coma – and wakes up to find that the world thinks he’s dead and that no one recognizes him thanks to his extensive reconstructive surgery. Apparently now clear on what’s important in life, he...
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- 6/27/2011
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Hot off his success in The Hangover Part II – which just broke the $500 million dollar mark globally – Ed Helms is already lining up new projects. Deadline says that the actor, who also appears on television’s The Office, will star in True North for Warner Bros. Based on a pitch from writer Rob Pearlstein, True North finds Helms playing an arrogant travel show host named Brian North. On a constant search for fame and celebrity, North spends more time traveling the globe than with his wife and kids. When his plane crashes in India, North spends two years in a coma – and wakes up to find that the world thinks he’s dead and that no one recognizes him thanks to his extensive reconstructive surgery. Apparently now clear on what’s important in life, he...
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- 6/27/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com - Celebrity Gossip
Ed Helms has spent a few seasons on The Office as something of a minor character, one who would pop into a scene with a funny quip or have a nice character beat every few episodes, but not that much else. Now, he’s been moving up in stardom as of late, with his role on that show increasing in size and him landing big parts in features. He showed that he can lead a film without issue in Cedar Rapids, while he was even able to eke out a couple of laughs in Warner Bros.’ painfully unfunny The Hangover Part II.
Now, to further continue that ascent, Deadline reports that the actor is getting the lead role in an upcoming dramedy that was just pitched to the studio by writer Rob Pearlstein. Titled True North, the movie is centered on Brian North, a “pompous travel-show host” who has alienated...
Now, to further continue that ascent, Deadline reports that the actor is getting the lead role in an upcoming dramedy that was just pitched to the studio by writer Rob Pearlstein. Titled True North, the movie is centered on Brian North, a “pompous travel-show host” who has alienated...
- 6/26/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Warner Bros has acquired a feature film pitch from scribe Rob Pearlstein as a starring vehicle for Ed Helms, who is coming off the success of the studio's The Hangover Part II, which has just passed $500 million in global box office. Helms will also executive produce the project, which is being sheperded by Kim Roth, Erin Fredman and Anna Culp at Imagine Entertainment. Greg Silverman, Jon Berg and Andy Fischel will oversee for Warners. Brian Grazer will produce. Helms, repped by CAA and Principato-Young, next appears in Paramount's Duplass brothers film Jeff Who Lives At Home with Jason Segal and is one of the voices in Universal's The Lorax. He also will return in the fall for Season 8 of NBC's The Office. Update: Here's some details about the screenplay: The plot of the comedic drama, titled True North, centers on pompous travel-show host Brian North (Helms), whose obsessive pursuit...
- 6/24/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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