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James McAvoy will star in “I’m With Cancer”, a comedy about the life of cancer survivor Will Reiser being produced by Seth Rogen. Announced in October, the film is an adaptation of the autobiographical novel “I’m With Cancer.” Reiser is a producer on VH1’s “Best Week Ever” and a former contributor to HBO’s “Da Ali G Show.” His spec script talks about his struggle with a diagnosis at age 25 and how he used humor to get through it. Reiser’s script landed on 2008’s Black List as one of the best unproduced works in Hollywood. McAvoy will play Reiser and Rogen will take a supporting role. Nicole Holofcener is directing the production that starts January 2010. It is a little surprising to see this is still moving forward after Funny People didn’t do well in theaters. Even though cancer is supposedly a taboo subject I thought the movie was funny, especially when it was dealing with Rogen and cancer rather than Sandler’s home-wrecking epiphany. I know people will see “cancer” and “comedy” and immediately be up in arms, but after my own experience with the condition I believe there’s nothing particularly offensive about remembering a survivor’s story and telling some jokes. Besides, with talent like McAvoy on board it doesn’t look like this will be a wacky screwball comedy. Maybe Rogen is taking a step into more serious material. It’s going to be a tough sell to the general public, but I’m giving this one a chance. |
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