'Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping' Red-Band Trailer: Lonely Island Hits The Big Screen
The Lonely Island is hitting the big screen this summer. Universal Pictures has released the first look at the awkwardly (and hilariously) titled Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, starring Andy Samberg as a singer-rapper named Conner4Real. Though he seems to be at the top of his game — thanks to the efforts of a 32-person entourage — his career takes a nosedive when his latest album flops. Humbled, he's forced to reunite with his old boy band.
Fellow Lonely Islanders Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone co-directed, and star as Conner's lyricist and DJ respectively. The film features murderer's row of comedy stars including Sarah Silverman, Bill Hader, Tim Meadows, and Will Arnett, and it's stuffed to the brim with celebrity cameos by the likes of Snoop Dogg ("Surprise, motherf***er!"), Simon Cowell, Carrie Underwood, Usher, and Adam Levine's hologram. Watch the Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping red-band trailer after the jump.
Universal Pictures dropped the Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping red-band trailer on YouTube.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping opens June 3.
Universal Pictures' Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is headlined by musical digital-shorts superstars Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, collectively known as The Lonely Island. The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he's no longer the dopest star of all.
The latest comedy from blockbuster producer Judd Apatow (Trainwreck, Superbad, Knocked Up) co-stars Sarah Silverman, Tim Meadows and Maya Rudolph and many of the biggest names in comedy and music in cameo performances. Co-directed by Schaffer and Taccone and written by The Lonely Island trio, Popstar is also produced by Rodney Rothman (producer of Get Him to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall; co-writer of 22 Jump Street), as well as Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone.