Ladies of the world who love Michael Cera: where were you when we were in high school? Oh yeah, you thought we were a total shy, but funny dork…uhhh, and scene! We digress.
Is Michael Cera and his girlfriend, comedienne Charlyne Yi’s new film “Paper Hearts” poised to be the next-big-thing at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Utah, come 2009?
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film has gone, “under the radar,” which is fair enough to say considering we just heard about it now. Films that are still in development are listed on his IMDB page, but ‘Hearts’ is not and that’s because it’s a “semi-secret project.” Either way, expectations are already running high for the film.
Apparently there’s a small buzz happening with “indie insiders.” “It’s pretty much ‘the one,’ at least as far as festival programmers are concerned,” one anonymous source said. Sources close to the project describe it as “part-documentary, part-scripted comedy about the real-life relationship between Cera and his girlfriend,” Yi, who had a role as one of the housemates in Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up,” and apparently is developing another film project for Apatow (unless ‘Hearts’ is the same one; either way,the super comedy producer seems to be a big fan of hers).
Apparently like Cera’s recent “Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist,” music will be a key element of the film which is fine and all, but let’s hope its not the bland, Now That’s What I Call Indie Rock, reductiveness of that movie.
Relative unknown Nicholas Jasenovec, who had a small part in “Superbad” is directing (he also directed this Funny or Die skit featuring many of the regular Apatow-players, plus Sam Rockwell).