The Hangover Part II may be identical to the original, and the writers of that 2009 smash hit, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, certainly aren’t changing things up for the their next project. Titled 21 and Over, the comedy follows “two childhood friends who drag their straight-arrow buddy out to celebrate his 21st birthday the night before an all-important med school interview. But when one beer leads to another, the evening spirals into a wild epic misadventure of debauchery and mayhem that none of them will ever forget.”
As the headline reads, it seems like The Hangover in college. While they can’t be blamed for Craig Mazin & Scot Armstrong‘s beat-for-beat similar sequel, hitting theaters today, it is shame they don’t seem to be changing up the premise. Deadline now reports they also have their first lead. Rabbit Hole star Miles Teller has signed onto the film, to be directed by Lucas and Moore as well.
He is also in the secret Todd Phillips comedy Project X, which got pushed to 2012 and will appear in the Footloose update this fall. I thought he did a fantastic job in John Cameron Mitchell‘s criminally under-seen 2010 drama. While this premise doesn’t sound promising, it will be interesting to see if Lucas and Moore can also succeed behind a camera.
What do you think about the premise and Teller’s involvement?