How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (film)
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| Directed by | Robert B. Weide |
| Produced by | Stephen Woolley Elizabeth Karlsen |
| Written by | Peter Straughan Toby Young (memoir) |
| Starring | Simon Pegg Megan Fox Kirsten Dunst Jeff Bridges Gillian Anderson |
| Cinematography | Oliver Stapleton |
| Editing by | David Freeman |
| Distributed by | Channel Four Films (UK) Paramount Vantage (UK) Metro Goldwyn Mayer(MGM) (US) |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million[1] |
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is an upcoming comedy film based upon British writer Toby Young's 2001 memoir, also called How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. The film will follow a similar storyline, about his five year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Vanity Fair magazine — though the names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work it was built upon.
It will be directed by Robert B. Weide and star Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, Megan Fox as Sophie Maes, Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen, Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding, and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Johnson. How to Lose Friends And Alienate People is currently in post-production with a release date in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2008.
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[edit] Cast
- Simon Pegg as Sidney Young: Pegg plays the character based upon Toby Young as he is portrayed in the memoir.
- Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen: Dunst portrays Young's love interest and elusive heroine of the memoir
- Megan Fox as Sophie Maes: Fox as Sophie Maes, is a budding starlet and the object of Young's lust.
- Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding: Bridges plays Clayton Harding, Young's magazine editor who is very loosely based on Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair.[1]
- Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Johnson: Anderson as Eleanor Johnson, is the publicist pulling all the strings.
[edit] Plot
British writer Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), who despises the world of celebrity, leads efforts on an alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, that mocks the media attention paid to these stars. When Young is offered a job by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) at conservative New York based Sharps magazine, he begins his ascent to success. Starting as an outsider, he makes a gradual movement from his former world, soon becoming the confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) and beginning a relationship with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) is the power-hungry publicist pulling all the strings. The events unfolding in Young's life now will either break him or make him.
[edit] Production
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is an independent film, and was described as "a testosterone-laced Devil Wears Prada"[1]
In 2006, Simon Pegg was announced as the lead,[2] Kirsten Dunst was revealed to appear in the film in late April 2007,[3] and in May 2007, Jeff Bridges and Gillian Anderson were added.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c McGee, Celia. "Sweet Smell of Revenge (Screen Version)", nytimes.com, 2007-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
- ^ "Simon Pegg Is Toby Young", empireonline.com, 2006-09-18. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
- ^ "Blonde On Blonde, Dunst joins Pegg for journo comedy...", empireonline.com, 2007-04-23. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
- ^ "Pegg Makes Friends, Big names join journo flick...", empireonline.com, 2007-05-13. Retrieved on 2007-11-16.
