Albert Brooks In Talks To Join Judd Apatow’s New Film
By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 9:23 pm EST
Brooks is a comedy legend who got his start helping to usher in a whole new age of stand up comedy in the 1970s. However, as time would tell, much of his passion was in the world of film, both in front and behind the camera. Lorne Michaels famously asked Brooks to direct some very subtle and hilarious films for Saturday Night Live in the early years and, by the late 70s, he was a full on filmmaker. His most famous films, as a writer/director, are probably Lost in America and Defending Your Life while as an actor, he was nominated for an Oscar for Broadcast News and also appeared in Taxi Driver, Out of Sight and – most famously for this generation – was the voice of Marlin in Finding Nemo.
Brooks’s comedy has always been very smart, very dry and very underplayed, which is basically the opposite of the kind of things that made Judd Apatow famous and beloved. If this happens, I can’t wait to see how he fits in with Apatow’s brand of humor.
