Judd Apatow – the man with more fingers in comedy pies than, erm, a comedy pie thief (or maybe a comedy pie chef – that would make more sense. Damn, we should have made Apatow write this intro) – has announced plans to produce yet another comedy. And once again we wholeheartedly approve.
Five-Year Engagement will see the team behind the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall (which we’ve seen and liked, fact fans) return to wreak more havoc.
Writer-director Nick Stoller and writer-star Jason Segel (who you may remember as one of Seth Rogen’s stoner buddies in Knocked Up) will pull the same duties on Five-Year Engagement, a bawdy couples comedy which follows the ups and downs of a couple during their… yep, you guessed it.
"It's definitely an extension of our desire to explore the depth of human misery," says Stoller, before adding something that might be marked with a SPOILER. "If Sarah Marshall and Jason's character had stayed together, this might be the sequel."
Which would please us greatly. We can’t say too much about Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but it does fit in nicely with Apatow’s recent output, and if Five-Year Engagement can keep up the quality of that movie, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Superbad, we’ll be very happy indeed.
And maybe this will be the movie that establishes Segel and Stoller - who've worked with Apatow for years - as major comedy players in their own right.