By MICHAEL SMITH Movie Critic on Jun 2, 2009, at 6:21 PM Updated on 6/02 at 6:21 PM
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If “Superbad” director Greg Mottola is making a new comedy, then Bill Hader must be going back to work.
The movie is “Paul,” according to Variety, and it also stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig. The producer is Edgar Wright, the writer-director of the Pegg-Frost vehicles “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.”
Tulsa boy Hader has quickly made a name for himself as a regular on “Saturday Night Live” and by squeezing in as many as four films a year, including recent hits “Knocked Up,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Tropic Thunder.”
His largest screen roles have been when working for Mottola, as the kooky cop in the riotous “Superbad” and the amusement park manager in this year’s excellent and underseen “Adventureland.”
Now the two team up for “Paul,” a road-trip comedy about two sci-fi geeks/conspiracy theorists (Pegg and Frost) who venture into Area 51, where they match wits with an escaped alien.
You can see Hader as Gen. Custer in “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” and look closely for him June 19 in the Jack Black-Michael Cera prehistoric jokefest “Year One” (credits list Hader as “Shaman”).
By the way, happy birthday to Bill: Hader turns 30 on Sunday.
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