After debuting in the comedy “I
Heart Huckabees,” Jonah Hill has steadily posited himself as a solid
hilarious support in the string of his movies that followed. Appearing
afterwards in acclaimed hits like “The 40-Year Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up,” “Superbad,”
“Forgettting Sarah Marshall,” “Get Him to the Greek,” “Moneyball” and the most
recent “21 Jump Street” with Channing Tatum which is Hill’s highest grossing
film after “Superbad.”
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His latest movie “The Watch” which is about to open in cinemas this September 5
(in Phils. cinemas) allowed him to work with Ben Stiller, one of moviedom’s
great comic talents. In “The Watch,” four suburban guys formed a
patrol which they tagged as ‘Neighborhood Watch’ after a mysterious incident left
a security guard lifeless in the town’s superstore Costco. Headed by the
civic minded Evan (Ben Stiller), he recruits fun-loving family guy Bob (Vince
Vaughn), tough-talking ‘wild card’ Franklin (Jonah Hill) and the recent divorcé
Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade).
“When they formed this ‘band of brothers’, the guys thought, sure, they might
encounter some weird neighborhood stuff – maybe a burglar here, or peeping tom
there – but suddenly they realize they’ve facing something extraordinary,” says
producer Shawn Levy, the director of such hits as “Night at the Museum” and
“Real Steel.” “And The Watch is not just unprepared or unqualified, it’s
not remotely equipped to deal with this problem; yet it’s all on them to stop
it.”
The youngest member of the team is Franklin (Jonah
Hill), a twentysomething, militant looking tough guy with, notes Schaffer “a
sweetness just underneath.” (He still lives at home with his mom.) So
for Franklin, The Watch is the only way he can legally kick ass and take
names.
Coming off his Oscar®-nominated performance in the drama “Moneyball,” and
executive producing and starring in the critically-hailed hit “21 Jump Street,”
Hill was not looking to return to the kind of raucous comedy that had propelled
him to superstardom (like “Superbad” and “Pineapple Express”), but he “couldn’t
resist the chance to perform opposite alongside Ben, Vince and Richard,” notes
the actor. “It was something I had to do.” Moreover, “if I was
going to do another broad comedy, I wanted it to have no basis in reality, and
portray a character that could say or do anything. Plus, anytime you put
an extreme amount of danger in the hands of irresponsible people, you know the
results are going to be really wild.”
More of Jonah
Hill and the movie in this interactive trailer of “The Watch” http://www.youtube.com/thewatchintl.
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