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Bill Hader, one of the best “Saturday Night Live” offers these days (did you see his Charlie Sheen impersonation?), seems to be on his way to becoming a bit of a Stiller-esque power-player. Out stumping “Paul”, his new film with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and an alien that sounds a lot like the portly chap from “Knocked Up”, Hader spilled the beans on some of the projects he’s currently involved with, many of which are starring vehicles conceived and crafted for himself.
First up, Hader says he’s developing a film that’ll take the Mickey out of the “Bourne” series.
Hader, a real scene-stealer in Greg Mottola’s “Paul”, tells ThePlaylist that “Henchman” will be directed by Akiva Schaffer and produced by Shawn Levy’s company, 21 Laps.
“The film is about two guys who don’t realize it, but they’re two henchman for like the badguy in a ‘Bourne’ movie and then they slowly figure who that they’re working for the wrong guys, but like doing it in the actual style of a ‘Bourne’ movie.
“The aesthetics of a ‘Bourne’ movie, the shaky and handheld camera, that documentary feeling is how they shoot comedy these days, like ‘The Office’ and ‘Delocated,’ and so we realized we could keep that same style. That would be a different feel for that so’s something we’re working on.”
Hader said he’s also working on a film about American comedian and impersonator Vaughn Meader with Ben Stiller’s company.
“It’s about this guy who did these JFK impressions back in the ‘60s and he had this comedy album called The First Family and it was the biggest selling comedy record, still to this day I think it’s one of the biggest selling comedy records,” Hader said. “He does this insane, amazing JFK impression and then JFK gets assassinated and his whole career goes away. So Rob Siegel is working on that now.”
Hader says he expects the second half of the film to be rather dark. “Yeah, I would like to do… dark. It would be pretty sweet. It’s a real interesting piece and in a weird way it feeds into now, just like people becoming super famous overnight, reality stars and stuff. This guy became crazy famous, the president was talking about this guy and then it all went away. It’s really interesting.”
