Whether you're middle-aged married people on the brink of separation, a passionate young couple in your twenties or thirties, or teenagers with your first real crush, love can make you do crazy, stupid things.
Warner Bros. presents �Crazy, Stupid, Love� starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone. Joining them are Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon, Josh Groban and Filipino-American actress Liza Lapira.
Steve Carell says, �Age usually denotes some sort of growth, some sort of leg-up on the learning curve, but that�s not always the case when it comes to love. This is a great story because it involves three different generations of romance. What I found really interesting to explore was the crossover between them and the idea that, even as we get older, we don�t always have all the answers. The lessons we can learn from our kids are sometimes the most surprising.�
Carell�s character in �Crazy, Stupid, Love� is Cal Weaver, a man whose life falls apart in the opening scene when, without warning, his wife announces she wants a divorce. Having the rug pulled out from under him, he flails around, trying to find his footing, when he�s offered an unexpected and unusual lifeline in the form of ladies� man Jacob Palmer, played by Ryan Gosling.
Glenn Ficarra, who directed the film with John Requa, states, �This is a story about a guy who has a mid-life crisis thrust upon him as opposed to coming to it naturally, and the domino effect it has on everyone around him.�
In addition to the details of the story and characters, the overarching theme of love, present in so many different forms, was a big draw for the directing duo.
Requa contends, �Love is vital. For most people, it�s really the most important thing, the greatest thing in life worth fighting for. But it can also be a great source of comedy, which is how we felt when we read the script.�
The screenplay, written by Dan Fogelman, �was one of the best I�ve ever read,� says producer Denise Di Novi. �It was funny, very witty, very smart. It took a clear look at human relationships - marriage, parenting, first love, long-term love - in a way that was dramatic and edgy and hilarious�an irresistible combination for me.�
Fogelman actually wrote the screenplay with Carell in mind for the character of Cal. �I had the initial idea of a guy whose wife leaves him, and he meets another guy in a bar, and that guy trains him to become a sort of older version of himself, to rediscover his manhood and, well, pick up women. I could instantly imagine Steve playing him.�
Fogelman�s script became the first project to be produced under Carell�s own Carousel banner, with partners Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock serving as executive producers on the project. Both filmmakers saw the story�s appeal right away. �Everything was hidden so nicely inside the script, and every time I turned the page I was excited to find out what would happen,� Hartsock says. �But what really impressed me was that I never felt ahead of the script, I never thought, �Oh, I see where this is going.� That made reading it even better.�
DeGeneres offers, �The humor comes very naturally out of the situation and the character. Cal was very real and his story - his relationship falling apart after years of marriage - was something a lot of people can relate to. It really fit with what Carousel is all about.�
It was also precisely the kind of movie that directing partners Requa and Ficarra, who have previously only directed their own material, couldn�t pass up. Notes Ficarra, �We have a common ear for what we like, and there were issues in this story - mid-life crises, family dynamics - that really rang true and were very tempting to us.�
�I liked the way Dan examined how annoying love can be,� Requa says. �The script was just so impressive, and it�s a character-based comedy, which is exactly what we like to do.�
Di Novi states, �Glenn and John have a style that we all felt would match perfectly with this project. They�re really able to access the underlying emotion of a scene, even through the laughter. They bring a real sense of humanity to what they do.�
Opening soon across the Philippines, �Crazy, Stupid Love� is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Warner Bros. presents �Crazy, Stupid, Love� starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone. Joining them are Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon, Josh Groban and Filipino-American actress Liza Lapira.
Steve Carell says, �Age usually denotes some sort of growth, some sort of leg-up on the learning curve, but that�s not always the case when it comes to love. This is a great story because it involves three different generations of romance. What I found really interesting to explore was the crossover between them and the idea that, even as we get older, we don�t always have all the answers. The lessons we can learn from our kids are sometimes the most surprising.�
Carell�s character in �Crazy, Stupid, Love� is Cal Weaver, a man whose life falls apart in the opening scene when, without warning, his wife announces she wants a divorce. Having the rug pulled out from under him, he flails around, trying to find his footing, when he�s offered an unexpected and unusual lifeline in the form of ladies� man Jacob Palmer, played by Ryan Gosling.
Glenn Ficarra, who directed the film with John Requa, states, �This is a story about a guy who has a mid-life crisis thrust upon him as opposed to coming to it naturally, and the domino effect it has on everyone around him.�
In addition to the details of the story and characters, the overarching theme of love, present in so many different forms, was a big draw for the directing duo.
Requa contends, �Love is vital. For most people, it�s really the most important thing, the greatest thing in life worth fighting for. But it can also be a great source of comedy, which is how we felt when we read the script.�
The screenplay, written by Dan Fogelman, �was one of the best I�ve ever read,� says producer Denise Di Novi. �It was funny, very witty, very smart. It took a clear look at human relationships - marriage, parenting, first love, long-term love - in a way that was dramatic and edgy and hilarious�an irresistible combination for me.�
Fogelman actually wrote the screenplay with Carell in mind for the character of Cal. �I had the initial idea of a guy whose wife leaves him, and he meets another guy in a bar, and that guy trains him to become a sort of older version of himself, to rediscover his manhood and, well, pick up women. I could instantly imagine Steve playing him.�
Fogelman�s script became the first project to be produced under Carell�s own Carousel banner, with partners Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock serving as executive producers on the project. Both filmmakers saw the story�s appeal right away. �Everything was hidden so nicely inside the script, and every time I turned the page I was excited to find out what would happen,� Hartsock says. �But what really impressed me was that I never felt ahead of the script, I never thought, �Oh, I see where this is going.� That made reading it even better.�
DeGeneres offers, �The humor comes very naturally out of the situation and the character. Cal was very real and his story - his relationship falling apart after years of marriage - was something a lot of people can relate to. It really fit with what Carousel is all about.�
It was also precisely the kind of movie that directing partners Requa and Ficarra, who have previously only directed their own material, couldn�t pass up. Notes Ficarra, �We have a common ear for what we like, and there were issues in this story - mid-life crises, family dynamics - that really rang true and were very tempting to us.�
�I liked the way Dan examined how annoying love can be,� Requa says. �The script was just so impressive, and it�s a character-based comedy, which is exactly what we like to do.�
Di Novi states, �Glenn and John have a style that we all felt would match perfectly with this project. They�re really able to access the underlying emotion of a scene, even through the laughter. They bring a real sense of humanity to what they do.�
Opening soon across the Philippines, �Crazy, Stupid Love� is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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