{"id":90213,"date":"2025-08-23T02:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90213\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:53:07","slug":"nu-paramount-rolls-the-dice-on-theatrical-comedies-with-old-trevor-noah-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90213\/","title":{"rendered":"Nu-Paramount rolls the dice on theatrical comedies with old Trevor Noah idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been three years now<\/a> since Trevor Noah stepped down from his pulpit at Comedy Central\u2019s\u00a0The Daily Show, forgoing nightly American entertainment for the less-structured (but still extremely lucrative) life of a globally successful stand-up comic. Still, Noah apparently has at least a few of those old Paramount contacts still kicking around in his phone, as Deadline\u00a0reports<\/a> that the studio has just greenlit a film based on a pitch the comedian and actor originally whipped up back during the heights of the COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Noah\u2019s concept:\u00a0The Island, \u201can R-rated comedy feature\u201d about a type-A businesswoman and a \u201chighly committed\u201d male high school teacher who wind up stuck together after crashing on a deserted island together. Noah was apparently inspired by his time during the lockdowns to develop the pitch, about polar opposites forced to rely on each other to survive, which, if we\u00a0had been stuck in lockdown with him, might actually feel kind of pointed! (Also, kind of basic? It feels like a very obvious premise.) Still, Paramount apparently likes it, enough to tap Andrew Jay Cohen, the narrative mind behind the Neighbors<\/a>\u00a0franchise and that one movie where Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler ran a secret suburb casino<\/a>, to actually write Noah\u2019s idea up into a screenplay. (Noah himself isn\u2019t really a screenwriter; the vast majority of his writing credits are either for \u201cstory by\u201d contributions like this one, or joke writing for jobs like his frequent gigs hosting the Grammys.)<\/p>\n

The biggest takeaway here, honestly, might just be that Nu-Paramount is willing to roll the dice on a theatrical comedy, an increasing rarity in the modern movie-making landscape. (Even the studio\u2019s recent The Naked Gun<\/a>, which had a hefty marketing campaign, strong critical reviews, and pretty good word-of-mouth, barely made an impact at the box office, so it\u2019s not hard to understand why studios might be feeling leery of pursuing more joke-based films.) No word on whether Noah will be involved any further in the project, or if he\u2019s just tossed his comedy chick off a cliff, and will happily wait to see if other people can get it to properly fly.<\/p>\n

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