Getting a look at the Brit Quad poster one-sheet for Robert Weide's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People only reminds me that (unless I've got my facts wrong) this comedy, now in post-prod starring Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst has yet to find a U.S-based distributor. The math means it either failed to find a distributor (highly unlikely) or the film's producers are holding out for top dollar for the rights to the book to film adaptation.
The thinly fictionalized movie adaptation penned by Peter Straughan sees Pegg play the self-promoting British writer Toby Young in the movie adaptation of his bestselling book in which he detailed his disastrous stint as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair in New York. Young is merciless about his own hapless attempts to ingratiate himself with celebrities and impress supermodels. But he is equally scathing about the ego and grandeur of his boss, editor-in-chief Graydon Carter Carter, and the self-importance of the entire Vanity Fair machine. All names have been changed for the purposes of the movie — Vanity Fair becomes Sharps magazine, for example, and Carter will be Clayton Harding.
