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Sam Huntington, who stars as Jimmy Olsen in Warner Bros. Pictures' Superman Returns, gave ComingSoon.net an update on Fanboys, the comedy-drama that Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street is producing for The Weinstein Company. Huntington co-stars with Dan Fogler, Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel and Chris Marquette as "Star Wars" geeks in Kyle Newman's directorial debut.
"It's fantastic. I got to work with Kevin Spacey again, which was real exciting," said Huntington. "Yeah, it's called 'Fanboys' and it comes out, I think, beginning of next year -- and it's about 'Star Wars' fans. It's about these four friends who drive from Ohio to San Francisco in 1998 to steal a copy of 'Episode I The Phantom Menace' from the Skywalker Ranch and it's really, really funny and it's a very very emotionally powerful, believe it or not, because they're fulfilling the wish of their dying friend. And I know that sounds very cliched, but it's actually very tastefully done."
He says he plays "a car salesman who is kind of like hounding the trip. I play a guy who basically has been segregated from his fanboy friends. They've all continued on after college to remain fanboys and I've kind of gone the corporate road and work for my day at a car dealership and inherit it at the beginning of the movie and then it just kind of goes on after that. That's right. I rediscover my inner fanboy."
Asked how the fanboys in the film will react to Jar Jar Binks, Huntington said, "Jar Jar appears in the movie in a very very funny way that I can't reveal to you, because it's absolutely hysterical. It's one of my favorite moments in the whole movie."
He added that George Lucas does make an appearance. "Needless to say, we kiss his ass for an hour-and-a-half, he kind of had to sign off on it, you know. The extend of his... I should keep that kind of a mystery, the extent of his involvement. It's very cool. It's going to be a fun, fun movie."
"It's fantastic. I got to work with Kevin Spacey again, which was real exciting," said Huntington. "Yeah, it's called 'Fanboys' and it comes out, I think, beginning of next year -- and it's about 'Star Wars' fans. It's about these four friends who drive from Ohio to San Francisco in 1998 to steal a copy of 'Episode I The Phantom Menace' from the Skywalker Ranch and it's really, really funny and it's a very very emotionally powerful, believe it or not, because they're fulfilling the wish of their dying friend. And I know that sounds very cliched, but it's actually very tastefully done."
He says he plays "a car salesman who is kind of like hounding the trip. I play a guy who basically has been segregated from his fanboy friends. They've all continued on after college to remain fanboys and I've kind of gone the corporate road and work for my day at a car dealership and inherit it at the beginning of the movie and then it just kind of goes on after that. That's right. I rediscover my inner fanboy."
Asked how the fanboys in the film will react to Jar Jar Binks, Huntington said, "Jar Jar appears in the movie in a very very funny way that I can't reveal to you, because it's absolutely hysterical. It's one of my favorite moments in the whole movie."
He added that George Lucas does make an appearance. "Needless to say, we kiss his ass for an hour-and-a-half, he kind of had to sign off on it, you know. The extend of his... I should keep that kind of a mystery, the extent of his involvement. It's very cool. It's going to be a fun, fun movie."