Long Shot
Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron join forces in the trailer for the comedyLong Shot . Obviously , of the yoke , Rogen is the one who ’s typically associated more with comedies , specifically of the raunchy variety like theNeighborsmovies orSausage Party . At the same clip , Theron ’s far from a strange to the literary genre herself . In fact , the Oscar - winner ’s let a bit of dark comedy under her belt already , thanks to films likeYoung Adult , Gringo , andTully . She ’s also come along in broader oblation before , most notably with Seth MacFarlane’sA Million Ways to become flat in the West .
Theron stars inLong Shotas Charlotte Field , the current U.S. Secretary of State and a legitimate candidate to become the country ’s president . However , her liveliness takes a turn for the unexpected when Charlotte is reunited with Fred Flarsky ( Rogen ) , an unemployed journalist whom she used to babysit back when he was a Thomas Kyd . The pair thereafter get down a courting that puts Charlotte ’s political ambitiousness in danger , thanks in no modest amount to Fred ’s disposition to sabotage his own life - among other reason , as the film ’s marketing pokes merriment at .
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Lionsgatehas expel the officialLong Shottrailer online , ahead of the trailer ’s debut in theaters . The film was indite by Liz Hannah ( The Post ) and Dan Sterling ( The Office ) , and reunites Rogen with his50/50andThe Night Beforedirector Jonathan Levine . Meanwhile , Rogen and Theron are fall in in the plastic film ’s cast by O’Shea Jackson Jr. ( Straight Outta Compton ) , June Diane Raphael ( Blockers ) , Andy Serkis ( Black Panther ) , Ravi Patel ( Grandfathered ) , and Bob Odenkirk ( Better Call Saul ) .
While he did n’t have a hand in writing it ( unlike a set of his films),Long Shotdefinitely feels like a rude forward motion of Rogen ’s ongoing serial of broad comedies about character who ’re still struggle to subdue the art of being a creditworthy adult . Part of the role player ’s continuing success can be attributed to the fashion his motion picture have matured as he ’s cured , yet still found elbow room for self - deprecating jokes about Rogen ’s visual aspect or gags involving people getting high or stoned on weed . Based on the trailer , that will remain the case withLong Shot , even as the photographic film contain more satirical liquid body substance about U.S. politics and the challenges of being a woman vying for the presidential term ( or any military position of power , for that matter ) . There are also some rom - com constituent at play here , which only further separatesLong Shotfrom Rogen and/or Theron ’s premature comedies .
At the minute , Lionsgate hasLong Shotscheduled to hit theaters near the startle of May - or , rather , a week afterAvengers : Endgame . Still , contention for the comedy crowd will be thin at that point , so the former should n’t have much trouble chip at out a decent - sized slice of box office pie for itself . Levine ’s got a pretty reliable trail disk as a director too ( salvage for his dud with 2017’sSnatched ) and the trailer has some hopeful trick , which further prefigure well for the film ’s quality . We ’ll have a good approximation of what to expect fromLong Shotsoon , abide by its premier atSXSW 2019next month .
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