Farrelly co-wrote the script as well, teaming up with Brian Currie and Pete Jones to adapt the screenplay off of Chick Donahue and J.T. Malloy’s novel The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty and War. The Apple Original Films title will be produced by Andrew Muscato, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, with the latter three hailing from Skydance production company. Farrelly made note that he’s been looking forward to making this film since taking home Oscar gold for Green Book.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever tells the tale of Donahue (the novelist) attempting to bring beer to his friends while they fought in Vietnam in 1967. The man left New York, hitched a ride on a Merchant Marine ship, and carried the beer through the jungle as he tried to track down his buddies. He did all of this in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. Turns out his choice of attire would work in his favor. Moving through the jungle is apparently easier when you’re mistaken for a CIA agent.

Efron will take on the titular role of Donahue, and the team behind the film hopes to start production in August of 2021 (likely in Australia or New Zealand). Crowe’s role is currently unknown. 

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How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor’s second movie as writer/director/actor (after 2010’s Happythankyoumoreplease ) is a cute, funny indie charmer, with a twist of sadcore wit that’s just slightly too self-conscious.

Radnor plays a thirtysomething literature-lover who’s been drifting through his adult life ever since graduating in English with a history minor.

But a return to university leads to a meet-cute with 19-year-old student Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), who triggers romance, nostalgia and his late-bloom coming-of-age.

She’s 19. He’s 35.

He’s done the maths. And Radnor’s campus romcom is full of characters who feel nudged from their niche: adults who wish they were back at uni and students who wish they were out in the world.

It’s witty and heartfelt but – perhaps a hangover from Radnor’s sitcom style – too much of the dialogue feels written down and read out rather than spur-of-the- moment spoken.

Radnor’s an easy actor to watch, mind, although not a patch on his glowing co-star.

Almost too good to be true, Olsen’s the girl that shy, bookish guys only really meet in the movies.

Elsewhere, Zac Efron can’t do much as a lazily written slacker full of equally meaningless life mantras.

But there’s a much-needed pulse of reality from reluctant retiree Richard Jenkins and Allison Janney as an English professor who’s sick of “effete, over-articulate manboys”.

Lines – and performances – like that help Radnor avoid the same inertia affecting his character.

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