Judd Apatow rings in new film Engagement for Universal :: Film & TV News :: Articles

Judd Apatow doesn’t slow down. Keeping a breakneck pace seems to come naturally to this comedian turned filmmaker, who in the last year has produced (deep breath) Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Drillbit Taylor, Pineapple Express, Step Brothers and is currently filming The Year One.

Apatow will soon begin production on a comedy called Five-Year Engagement for Universal. Shauna Robertson will return to produce, as will writers Nick Stoller and Jason Segel. Stoller will direct the film and Segel returns to the starring role.

“It's definitely an extension of our desire to explore the depth of human misery,” Stoller told Variety. “If Sarah Marshall (played by Kristen Bell) and Jason's character had stayed together, this might be the sequel.”

As one might glean from the title, this couples’ comedy follows the plight of a man in a five-year engagement.

The Stoller-Apatow team penned Jim Carrey’s Fun with Dick and Jane. Segel also goes way back with Apatow; the two worked together on NBC’s Freaks and Greeks.

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