Over Your Dead Body is one of those movies that just sounds better and better with every passing line. Helmed by Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping director and The Lonely Island ledge Jorma Taccone, produced by Nobody action outfit 87 North, and based on Tommy Wirkola’s excellent Norwegian dark comedy thriller The Trip, the film stars Jason Segel and Samara Weaving as dysfunctional spouses each secretly plotting to use a secluded cabin retreat to kill off the other. So far so *chef’s kiss*! But, as the newly dropped trailer for the movie shows, things don’t quite go according to plan for either of the murderous couple. Check it out below;
Crikey — not even all the shrinks from Shrinking combined could fix what’s broke in Segel and Weaving’s marriage! She’s tying him to the kitchen table and pointing a shotgun in his face. He’s brought gaffer tape and has plans involving a speedboat and some heavy rocks. They’re both practicing their best “I’m calling the cops and acting like I’m deeply concerned about my partner’s wellbeing” waterworks. And that’s all before Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis, Keith Jardine, and a cadre of crooked-seeming sorts descend upon their eminently destructible would-be murder palace. It all sounds positively terrible for them — and it all looks like a lot of fun for us!
Penned by Taccone’s fellow Saturday Night Live alumni Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney, Over Your Dead Body is set to make its world premiere at SXSW next month ahead of a US cinema release on 24 April. We don’t know when we’ll get to see Samara Weaving and Jason Segel going mano a mano (a mano) on this side of the pond just yet, but we do know that we’ll be ready, waiting, and seated just as soon as that UK release date drops. In the meantime, we’re off to cocktail Eenie Meanie, Shrinking, and Ready Or Not rewatches to get our Segel-Samara fix while we wait…
