John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson (best known as Darryl on The Office), and Clark Duke have all signed on for Hot Tub Time Machine, a movie that sounds as awesome as you would expect from the title.
Scripted by Josh Heald, the comedy follows a group of friends who are frustrated when they return to a ski lodge where they partied as teens. They then get in a hot tub -- which happens to be a time machine -- and get transported to 1987
One of the sites I read first posted about the movie based on it's amazing title, after realizing the screenwriter was not on IMDB they asked for him to write in with some input as to why the movie would be good if he was reading. He actually was and did reply, and in turn won me over with his quest for awesomeness.
First of all, yes, Jason Heald is a typo (thanks Hollywood Reporter). My name is Josh Heald. As for the screenplay -- without patting myself on the back, Hot Tub Time Machine is probably the greatest gift anyone's ever given the world. Time will show that it ranks up there with the Statue of Liberty and free Internet porn.
OK, removing my tongue from my cheek for a moment and without giving away anything without first consulting the directors or studio, let's just look at it logically -- I was able to sell a script called Hot Tub Time Machine. To an actual movie studio. That in and of itself seems ridiculously implausible, and yet, here we are. I think I should get an award of at least some sort of free sandwich. I will say, without giving anything away, that my goal with the screenplay was awesomeness, through and through. And audiences will not be disappointed.
Why should you trust me? I dunno. Depends on what you're trusting me with. I can make you laugh. But God help you if you go on vacation and trust me to water your plants. Because we all know what will happen. I'll probably end up f****** your plants. Not in a weird way or anything. Just, you know, sexually.
I'm not sure about you but I think I have just developed a man crush and I smell a hit. Cusack is funny whenever he wants to be, and Craig Robinson is getting pretty close to that as well. Duke was pretty awesome in last year's Sex Drive as well as the Michael and Clark webisodes, and Corrdry has been hilarious in like 15 movies you have all seen. Did I mention they take a time machine back to an 80's ski lodge. I'm hoping it's exactly like one of my favorite comedies of all time, Ski School. God that movie is awesome.
