Maybe it’ll be better than his last movie? Variety reports that Jake Kasdan — helmer of last year’s surprise hit, Bad Teacher — is in negotiations to direct the comedy Sex Tape for Sony. The movie follows a married couple who wake up one morning to find their sex tape missing and go on a search to find who took it. Jason Segel, who co-starred in Teacher, is attached to star as one half of the married couple. Kasdan takes the place of Nicholas Stoller, another Segel collaborator (2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall), who had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts. Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Rose Byrne, Reese Witherspoon, and Jennifer Garner are all rumored to play the wife.
Sex Tape has a no-brainer concept, one that’s also pretty topical in a day and age when everyone is taping everything (especially that). I see a lot of potential in this, and having Segel attached to star automatically gets me excited — but, at the same time, I fear it’ll be too studio safe and, worse, broad. Making a movie about sex shouldn’t be filled with easy jokes (pun intended?); there’s so many other ways to go.
Did you like Bad Teacher enough to give Kasdan’s next movie a chance?