The Lonely Island's New Movie Gets An Official Title and Poster
Comedians/musicians The Lonely Island — Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer — have been working on a top secret movie for a while now, snagging Judd Apatow as a producer last year. Until last night, the project had simply been known as Top Secret Untitled Lonely Island Movie, but Samberg debuted the first poster and the movie's official title on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
It's called Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and it's a fake documentary about a fake rapper named Conner4Real (Samberg) who has to reunite with his former boy band. Check out the official press release below:
Universal Pictures’ POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING is headlined by musical digital-shorts superstars Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, collectively known as The Lonely Island. The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all.
The latest comedy from blockbuster producer Judd Apatow (Trainwreck, Superbad, Knocked Up) co-stars Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows and Maya Rudolph and many of the biggest names in comedy and music in cameo performances. Co-directed by Schaffer and Taccone and written by The Lonely Island trio, POPSTAR is also produced by Rodney Rothman (producer of Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall; co-writer of 22 Jump Street), as well as Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone.
This sounds great to me, and with Schaffer and Taccone co-directing, that means the minds behind MacGruber and Hot Rod are combining their powers to hopefully bring us a movie that should have a ton of visual gags and great moments. Now let's just hope all of the cameos aren't spoiled before the movie hits theaters.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping opens on June 3rd.