Emma Stone and Jonah Hill Reunite for First Time Since ‘Superbad’ in Freaky ‘Maniac’ Trailer
A raunchy high school comedy this is not.
Before Emma Stone and Jonah Hill were Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, they were Seth and Jules in the 2007 high school comedy Superbad.
Over a decade later, and after each has become a bonafide movie star, they reunite for the upcoming Netflix limited series Maniac.
If you can’t guess from the title, it is nothing like Superbad at all. Directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and based on a Norwegian series of the same name, this shit sounds sort of heavy.
Here’s an official synopsis from Netflix:
Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons.
Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently.
Things do not go as planned.
Maniac premieres on Netflix September 21.
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