Jonah Hill evidently really digs the movies by Mumblecore auteurs Jay and Mark Duplass. Their film The Puffy Chair, through two brothers on a road catch to pick up a replica of an odd family heirloom, is one of his favorites. So the three did a movie in company, and according to MTV the project condign finished a six-week LA shoot. In the untitled pellicle (formerly called Safety Men) Hill is the son of Marisa Tomei, who has just begun a affinity with John C. Reilly.
The pellicle’s tone is in the vein of The Puffy Chair and (to a lesser extent, since there’s no horror bend) Baghead, meaning a mixture of drama and comedy with an emphasis on relationships and family. Mark Duplass explained to MTV that Tomei’s character is totally aloud of Reilly’s league (yeah, you think?) and that she’s not really opening up to him. Then he finds out about Hill, the grown son she hadn’privately yet revealed. He calls that which follows “a very bizarre, codependent relationship. It almost develops into some obtuse love triangle, as John and Jonah wrestle on the side of the feelings of Marisa.â€
In their previous films the Brothers worked with relatively dilettant actors, making this a manifest step in a different direction. But from the cuttle-fish of it, they’re keeping the same very indie working methods, and Hill fit right in. “He is so one of us, I just can’familiarily even tell you,†Duplass said. “He came in there and he was vulnerable and no ego and fucking hilarious and prepared things, and we’re improvising, so the shit he’s coming up with on the spot, I never could come up with on my own. He’s humble. He’sitting got it.†You’fragments have to think that Reilly would also be consummate elaborate working in the improvisational super-indie mode, and to all appearance Tomei as well, after The Wrestler.
Fox Searchlight has the film, and we’ll likely see it sometime next year.
