Looks like comedy duo and friends Owen and Vince
have found a new thinking playground at the Google campus as featured in the
upcoming hilarious movie “The Internship.”
In
an interview with EW on his upcoming true-to-the-times relatable comedy “The
Internship,” Vince Vaughn admits that there wouldn’t be any film had Google
said no to the concept in the first place.
Vaughn,
who serves as co-writer, producer and star of “The Internship” reunite with Owen
Wilson about friends in their 40s who get laid off from their jobs. Convinced
they’ve gone about managing their careers entirely wrong, they resolve to
become interns at a tech company and start anew. Hijinks ensue when Vaughn and
Wilson compete against wily, fresh-faced 22-year-olds to advance in the
company.
“The Internship” sees Nick (Owen
Wilson) and Billy (Vince Vaughn), two old-school salesmen who use old fashioned
charm and brilliant sales techniques to sell watches. On the night that they
try to close a big sale with a client, to their shock, they find out that their
company has been shut down because kids don’t wear watches anymore. Suddenly,
they find themselves unemployed as two dinosaurs in the digital world.
To make the situation worse, Billy
goes home to find a foreclosure sign on his front lawn and his girlfriend
packing her bags to leave him. In the meantime, Nick’s sister offers him a job
at a mattress store and he takes it out of despair. After an exhaustive job
search online, Billy has Googled everything he can Google. He finally gives up
by typing just “Google” into the search box, and finds an opportunity for them
to reinvent themselves – with an internship program at Google.
The guys arrive at the Google Campus
in Mountain View, California – a world away from anything they have seen before
– and are in awe. All the food and drink is free so they load up on coffee and
donuts at the “free” coffee cart as if it’s their last meal on earth. On the
first day of their internship, they find themselves in a sea of tech-savvy
20-year-olds who they need to compete against to win a full-time position at
Google. They team up with Neha, a sexually curious nerd, Stuart, who is
obsessed with his cell phone and won’t get off of it, Yoyo, a genius Asian kid
that lacks social and common life skills, and Lyle, who is an underdog who
wants to fit in. They also meet their nemesis – Graham – an arrogant and
aggressive college student who will stops at nothing to win the competition and
get the job at Google.
Vaughn wrote the original draft of
the story when the US economy was in shambles and most of the people he knew
had lost their jobs. It was that
generational sentiment that the skills they have are not significant as it used
to be. And when he saw a portion of what
goes inside the Google ‘campus,’ “I thought of taking the characters to this
place and give them the chance to work at Google – that felt relatable and
rootable,” shares Vaughn.
Google cofounder Sergey Bin
checked on the film’s set every now and then which Vaughn is very grateful for
– “Everyone at (Google) was very nice and gracious. But that’s what Google does: You search for
something and you find it,” Vaughn concludes.
“The Internship” opens June 7 in
theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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