We got a great first look at Charlize Theron in Jason Reitman’s next directorial effort, Young Adult, a few weeks ago, and it showed her fitting the title role perfectly, as an adult still in part living and looking like a youngster.
We’ve been sent the first poster for the film, due out on 10th February here next year, and it is a pretty brilliant poster in my books – no pun intended (you’ll see what I mean in a minute).
Young Adult sees fellow Juno collaborators Reitman and Diablo Cody working together again, after Reitman earned a Best Director nomination and Cody won Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards for their first project together just a few short years ago. Juno was of course incredibly well-received, and I have every expectation that Young Adult will be too.
Reitman followed up Juno with Up in the Air a year and a half ago, which earned him a further three Oscar nominations – Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay – and a lot of people, myself included, have been eagerly anticipating his next film. The film centres around Charlize Theron, in a role I’m really looking forward to seeing her play.
“Theron plays an alcoholic writer of young-adult novels who, on a whim, decides to return to the small town that she left behind years ago to aggressively pursue her ex-boyfriend from high school (Patrick Wilson) — only, now he is happily married and the father of a young child, which certainly complicates matters, and leads her to another high school classmate (Patton Oswalt), and no shortage of trouble.”
This first poster is an excellent look at the film. With a similar feel to the first image of Theron in a Hello Kitty t-shirt, we see her now passed out in bed, but rather than a bottle of beer or wine in her hand, there’s an almost-empty fizzy drink bottle instead. The brilliant touch of it all is that it’s presented like the cover of a book, written by Diablo Cody, with a little “Bargain Price $4.95” sticker hanging in the top-right corner of the cover. Excellent stuff.
America is getting Young Adult on 9th December, two months before us, so we can probably expect some more posters, images, and what is sure to be a fantastic first trailer in the next couple of months ahead of its release Stateside. Without further ado, here’s the great first poster.
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