MAN UP Trailer: Rom-Com Starring Simon Pegg and Lake Bell

Simon Pegg is still best known for his appearances in Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and the Cornetto Trilogy, but the actor isn't a stranger to romantic comedies and dramas. He's appeared in Run, Fatboy, Run, and Hector and the Search For Happiness, and now he's lined up a new effort opposite Lake Bell (In A World...) called Man Up.

The trailer was just released, and it tells the story of a cynical woman who has essentially given up on finding love who ends up impersonating her friend when she meets a man the friend was supposed to go on a blind date with. It's a silly premise and looks pretty formulaic, but Bell and Pegg are both capable actors so I'm hoping they'll be able to elevate the material a little bit. Yahoo UK has the trailer, and Man Up (which is directed by Ben Palmer) arrives in theaters on May 29th in the UK, and doesn't have a U.S. release date set yet.

Nancy (Lake Bell), is done with dating. 10 times bitten, 100 times shy, she’s exhausted by the circus. So when Jack (Simon Pegg) blindly mistakes her for his date, no one is more surprised than her when she does the unthinkable and just goes with it. It’s going to take a night of pretending to be someone else for Nancy to finally Man Up and be her painfully honest, awesomely unconventional self… but will Jack also Man Up, and be able to get over her duplicity? Best just to let the evening unfold, roll with the consequences, and see if one crazy, unpredictable, complicated night can bring these two messy souls together.