Judd Apatow enters a FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT with Universal

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Slightly mis-leading headline post. Judd Apatow has not signed an exclusive deal with Universal. No no. Instead, Variety report that he has setup a movie titled Five-Year Engagement at the studio, which will feature his Forgetting Sarah Marshall duo Peter Segel (as writer/star) and Nick Stoller (as writer/director).

Story, described as a bawdy, couples comedy, charts the five-year engagement of a man (Segel) and his fiancee, following the ups and downs of their relationship.

Apatow describes the movie as kind of an unofficial sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where if you imagine that Segel and Kristen Bell had stayed together this movie might have been the result. I'm so-so on the trailer for Sarah Marshall. I liked it's themes and ideas and it got a few laughs but I'm not sure if the acting talents of Bell, Segel or Russell Brand were all their as much as they needed to be. If this movie is going to be in the same vein as that one then let's hope that when Sarah Marshall opens on April 18th (6th June U.K.), it actually turns out to be good.