Andy Samberg will star alongside Craig Robinson and Common in Super High about ‘stoner’ superheroes who get their powers from a ‘special weed’
Comedian Andy Samberg has a new film lined up that seems full of promise.
The 42-year-old Saturday Night Live veteran will star in the comedy Super High alongside Pineapple Express actor Craig Robinson and rapper Common.
The film is about stoners who gain superpowers when they smoke a ‘special weed,’ it was reported on Wednesday by Deadline.
High times: Comedian Andy Samberg has a new film lined up that seems full of promise; seen in January at Sundance
Andy and Craig will share the screen with rapper turned actor Common who is best known for his work in John Wick 2.
New Line Cinema won the rights to the coveted script based on a book co-written between Adam Mansbach and Shamier Anderson.
The film does not yet have a shoot or release date, and with all the restrictions from COVID-19, it may take a while to get going.
Samberg, meanwhile, is still on his series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. And he is coming off the hit movie Palm Springs.
Good crew: The 42-year-old Saturday Night Live veteran will star in the comedy Super High alongside Pineapple Express actor Craig Robinson and rapper Common
Earlier this summer he said there were number of different endings to the movie that were tried out.
The 41-year-old actor plays the role of Nyles in the rom-com and follows two strangers who fall for each other after getting stuck in a time loop after meeting at a wedding ceremony in Palm Springs and Andy revealed that it was a challenge finding the right ending to the flick.
In an interview with Collider, Andy explained: ‘Without saying what the other ones were, we definitely went through many drafts of the ending. Different versions. We even shot a few different versions.
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‘We re-edited it a few different ways, and kind of landed on what we had by way of doing like small friends and family screenings and polling people until we got to one where, three screenings in a row after the ending we said, “Did everyone like the ending?”
‘And everyone raised their hand. And we were like, ‘Alright, it might not be perfect but everyone liked it!’
The comic also explained how he hoped that the movie would combine a variety of genres.
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Andy said: ‘(We found the right ending) not for lack of trying.
‘I would say what our goal was since the movie is a blend of genres, we wanted an ending that felt satisfying for the rom-com part of it, also not like a cop out for the nihilistic existential dread part of it, and also something that would be not complete gobbledygook for people who love sci-fi and were tracking the rules and the ins and outs and those types of things.
‘So it was a very difficult needle to thread and obviously it would have been easy to push it further into any one of those three categories, and what we ended up with hopefully is the best version, which was satiating all three in some way, shape or form.’