Remember when we said we were skeptical that Greg Mottola’s coming-of-age comedy drama “Adventureland,” would come out in August of this year, considering there was no trailer, no one-sheet, and no mention of the film on Miramax’s website or press site?
Well, we were right.
We got a tentative release schedule fwd’d to us of Miramax films and “Adventureland” was slotted for a loose May 2009 date. We checked with Miramax and now they’re saying the less specific date of “second quarter 2009.”
Does this mean the juice Mottola accrued from “Superbad,” has already warn off? Did the film test poorly? (there’s been a few reports of rough test screenings, all of which seem relatively positive). We spoke to James McNew of Yo La Tengo last week – the indie-rock group who is composing the film’s score – and the friendly bassist of the band told us that as of just a few short weeks ago, “Adventureland,” was doing some reshoots and the group had just finished some additional music cues, so even then we started to figure August 2008 was not sounding at all plausible.
Ah, well, there you have it. We’ll have to wait at least another 10 months to see Mottola’s amusement park dramedy with a bunch of Lou Reed songs. Bummer.