Leave it to Seth Rogen to celebrate Christmas by tripping too hard on mushrooms, barfing in church and running out of midnight mass in his Star of David sweater yelling We did not kill Jesus! Its the capstone moment in the gonzo redband trailer for The Night Before, available exclusively onRolling Stone. (You can check out the films Facebookhere and Twitterhere.)
The upcoming holiday comedy finds Rogen reuniting with his50/50co-star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and also starsAnthony Mackie (Captain America,The Hurt Locker). The trio play longtime friends, Isaac, Ethan and Chris, who decide to bring their yearly Christmas Eve tradition to an end: Isaac is about to become a father, and Chris, a star football player, has become too famous to casually hang.
Mayhem ensues when Ethan scorestickets to a big Christmas party and Isaacs wife, played by Jillian Bell, gifts her husbandsome shrooms and cocaine. You have been such a rock throughout this whole pregnancy, she tells Isaac. Youre like my Dwayne Johnson.
Highlights from the trailer include the three bros recreatingKanye Wests Runaway on a giant toy store piano, la Big;Mackie incredulously reacting to Rogens attempts to not look ridiculously high; andGordon-Levitt bellowing Wu-Tang Clan aint nothing to fuck with! at Bells belly after gifting the unborn baby a Wu-Tang onesie.
The trailer also offers quick appearances fromLizzy Caplan and Mindy Kaling, who at one point expounds the brilliant versatility of Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball: You can cry to it, you can run to it, you can party to it.
The Night Before was directed by Jonathan Levine, who also penned the script. The film is scheduled to open on November 25th.