Character/Role
Will play a once-promising musician who never got his act together to make something of himself and since became a back-up piano player, who is also an alcoholic.

Status
In Production

Release Date
Possibly 2010

Synopsis
The film follows four 20-something life long friends who are inspired by the book “The Adventurers Handbook” and set out overseas in search of a mysterious location described in the book.

Jonah Hill talked to Movie Web about the film, below is what he said of it:

The next movie I’m shooting, I wrote and it’s me and Jason Schwartzman and Jason Segel. It’s called The Adventurer’s Handbook. And it’s for Universal. Its cool. It’s really exciting. This is the first movie where I have a real writing credit, and its being made into a film. Its me, Schwartzman, and Segel starring in Indiana Jones or The Goonies. Our point of view is very grounded, but its going to be like an 80s adventure movie. We go on this adventure together and immediately get chased by drug dealers. We get chased around the world, basically.

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We find this handbook that we think is very special. It contains a map to a sacred island. We set out to find the island, because we are all bored with out lives. Then mayhem ensues. I lose my passport. Then we get chased by these people that are after something else. Akiva Schaffer, who does all of the Saturday Night Live digital shorts will be directing it.

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They were fun to me. This movie is what Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was supposed to be. My friend found this Adventure’s Handbook, and it’s this pocket book full of these absurd things. Like how to cut your way out of an anaconda. There was no real story, we were just laughing at this stuff that was in it. In the old movies, no one ever reacts to what is happening as if it were crazy. If this was happening to me? If a giant ball was rolling after me? I would think it was weird and fucked up. Its crazy. It’s insane. That’s the idea we wanted to bring to this movie. What if four guys went searching for themselves? What if they were searching for something , and they found this book, and the book causes them to go find this island. It allows them to connect with each other. It will fulfill this quarter-life crisis that they are going through before they get married and have kids. In the old 80s adventure movies, everything seems to go right. Something terrible happens, and then something great happens. Our idea for this was, “What if every time something unfortunate happens, something thirty times worse happens immediately after?” That was the idea. We never wanted these guys to have a victory, basically. Its like a really cool, grounded adventure movie that could exist. There are no spaceships. It’s not going to be surreal. We want you to think that at any minute these guys are going to die. You never feel like Indiana Jones is going to die. Here, you actually believe we might die during this gun battle. That we are shitting our pants because we are scared and don’t know what to do. These guys have never held a gun before. We want it to feel real.