This could be the next Hangover, if executed correctly, and if all the jokes aren't in this trailer. Hot Tub will be in theaters next March.

Even though John Cusack tried to be pretty mum on the details, the actor (who's also a producer) filled us in exclusively about the movie's status, and just how R-rated this film will be.

Let's talk Hot Tub Time Machine. Where's the film at right now?

I won't give anything away, but we are cutting the film right now. But it's about four guys who go back to the 1980s.

From what we saw in the trailer it seems like a pure group comedy. Who is your character in that group? What is your role?

I play sort of a guy who is a little bit of a control freak. He doesn't like to look back, and he gets forced to go back.

Since you are dealing with time travel is this going to be a Peggy Sue Got Married scenario with the actors from the future stuck in their child bodies, or will you have younger versions of yourself playing 80s you?

I'm not gonna tell you.

You are killing me.

I'm not killing you I'm trying to tantalize you.

Well the trailer looks like a return to the heavy drug usage, heavy on the swears, super fun type comedy? Are you guys doing a lot of drugs?

That's true [about the comedy]. There's not a lot of it, but there's some, you know it's the 80s, it's got drugs and sex and all the things that you know...

Why should we be excited for this movie?

I think Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Rob Corddry are hilarious. It's pretty fun if you like those old movies. There are some characters that make fun of those old movie characters like the stock bad guys on the ski patrol and the things like that.

What about the stock good guys? Anyone skewer your past characters a little bit?

We'll we have those too [for the good guys]. I think somewhere in there it's doing that. Crispin Glover is in it and he was in Back To The Future and is an 80s icon. He's in it. Chevy Chase is in it.

Besides the cast, why did you want to get involved with this project?

Because MGM was making it, and they only had about half of a script and they wanted to start making it before the summer. So they said, you have to just go shoot it right now, and you can produce it, but you'll have to rewrite the script and write it, but you'll have to start in seven weeks. So it was a very insane project and time frame, but we decided to do it anyways. It was a mad dash. Because you know what the fuck? It's just this insane juggernaut.

With a title like that, it kind of has to go to that extreme.

Even the filming was that way, we only had about 60 pages of the script. We just had to write it as we went. A lot of it is improv.

The flick follows a group of cussing and apparently snow-happy friends (Craig's got a little something on his nose) who take a dip in a ski lodge tub, and wake up in 1987. I think my past question about whether or not they will remain in their present bodies (in the past) a la Peggy Sue Got Married has been answered. They are doomed to be middle aged men forever.

Part of us feels like this whole movie pitch was originally just a giant joke to fool us bloggers, and to be honest we're kind of sad it wasn't, but lets hope the end result is funny in any case. Crispin Glover is in it, and he's always good for a laugh/scare.

Hot Tub Time Machine will be out on February 26, 2010.

Iron Man 2:

Talking to Empire Magazine, director Jon Favreau gives some hints about where Tony Stark's storyline may be going this time around:

Tony's expected to be a role model and I don't think he's ready to be one. He's under a great deal of pressure and when you're under pressure, I think you find outlets for that. That's one of the tensions of the film: it's one thing to say you're Iron Man, and another thing to actually become Iron Man.

And his sidekick Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle) will be stepping up, and may actually suit up as War Machine. Says Favreau, "Tony's not the only one with technology in the film."

Meanwhile, Mickey Rourke describes the armor he plays as the villain, Whiplash: it weighs 23 pounds and is "a sort of half suit" with Rourke's skin showing through the other half — and that skin is covered with tattoos, because Whiplash has just gotten out of a Russian-zone prison. [Empire]

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen:

Here are a few pics from this Baygasmic movie that we may not have shown you yet, I'm not sure. [SpoilerTV-Movies]

And here's a new TV spot, which I think we showed you in much blurrier format a while back. [Transformers Movie Chronicles]

Paul:

Zachary Levi says he tried to get a role in Simon Pegg's alien movie. He would have been playing one of the idiot agents who are trying to track down Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. As it is, Jason Bateman plays the head agent who has to tell these dumb agents what to do, and one of the field agents is played by Bill Hader. [Collider]

Land Of The Lost:

Here are a bunch more TV spots and a clip for this Will Ferrell vehicle, which comes out next Friday. I can't decide if it looks cute or ultra-annoying.

Looper:

As you may have heard, this film from Rian Johnson (Brick) is set in the present day, where a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future. Says Johnson, the movie has time travel in it, but it's not about time travel. It just uses time travel to set up the situation. The movie is very violent and has plenty of action, but isn't action oriented. It's more character-based, and especially in the second half, it goes someplace you wouldn't expect it to go. [Sci Fi Wire]

Moon:

The robot who keeps Sam Rockwell's character company is named GERTY. Towards the end of Rockwell's tour of duty on the Moon, he starts to feel strange and out of place — and then one of the extraction machines malfunctions, which starts him down his strange lunar trip. [Coventry Telegraph]

Hot-Tub Time Machine:

Chevy Chase has joined the cast of this time-traveling comedy, in which a group of washed-up party dudes (Rob Corddry, John Cusack and Craig Robinson) discover their old hot tub is actually a time machine, which takes them back to their glory days in 1987. Chase plays a mysterious hot-tub repairman, who "dispenses pearls of wisdom and may or may not be behind their metaphysical road trip." Sounds sort of like Pleasantville, except wetter and less monochrome. [Hollywood Reporter via Slashfilm]

Doctor Who:

Here are a bunch of set pics from David Tennant's final episodes. Nothing shockingly new, but they do give a fresh look at the return of Rose, Jackie and Donna, plus the Doctor's apparent collapse against that brick wall. Donna seems to be yelling at someone, and the Doctor and Wilf are having an argument. [SkyTV]

Lost:

According to the latest recap at ABC.Com, the mysterious statue is definitely Taweret, the Egyptian goddess who at various times is described as the wife of the god of evil, or a fertility goddess. There's a long post at the link which speculates as to what the statue's identity means for Jacob and his adversary (whom they're calling "Esau.") [DocArzt]

Fringe:

So now that Leonard Nimoy is playing the mysterious William Bell, is he a good guy or a bad guy or what? According to Roberto Orci, he's "a potential ambiguous evil figure." What does that mean? Only the Pattern can reveal. [Star Wars.com via SciFiScoop]

Warehouse 13:

Now that we've already learned which Eureka and BSG stars will be showing up on this new Syfy channel series, what's left? Oh yeah, Stargate. Stargate Atlantis' Joe Flanagan will play Jeff Weaver, a rich guy "whose charm captures Myka's interest, but he finds himself under Pete and Myka's scrutiny when a sculpture on which he bid, vanishes in an impossible heist." [Pop Culture Zoo via Gateworld]

Virtuality:

Remember this Ron Moore pilot about the crew of people on a deep-space exploration mission, who distract themselves by having fun in virtual reality — until the V.R. starts going badly wrong? As we mentioned, the pilot is getting aired on July 4, and veteran Star Trek/BSG model maker Doug Drexler blogs that the crew is racing to finish a few additional shots for the series. More spaceship action? Possibly a different ending? We'll see. [Drex Files, thanks Sun Scramble]

Chuck:

Zachary Levi hints that Chuck's new superpowers won't last long when he accesses them, and maybe after he uses an ability once, it's gone. (Forever? He won't say.) Also, Scott Bakula may not be back, because he's on another show. [Collider]

Additional reporting by Alasdair Wilkins.

John Cusack, The Daily Show's Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson are all rumored to be joining the cast of Hot Tub Time Machine, MGM's new scifi time traveling movie, according to Production Weekly.

I'm very surprised with Cusack is in talks for this, although he has been known to make small mistakes on signing on to certain projects - ahem, 1408, and let's go ahead and assume that 2012 will be a total disaster. But Rob Corddry has proven to be hilarious in just about everything he's signed on to, from The Daily Show on down, and Craig Robinson is classic in The Office... maybe Hot Tub Time Machine is a solid comedy flick?

The film, which follows a group of old college buddies who get to re-live their glory days after getting drunk in a time traveling hot tub, starts filming in mid-April in Vancouver with directors Sean Anders & John Morris at the helm. A while back, Heald told Cinematical:

Hot Tub Time Machine is probably the greatest gift anyone's ever given the world. Time will show that it ranks up there with the Statue of Liberty and free Internet porn.

OK, removing my tongue from my cheek for a moment and without giving away anything without first consulting the directors or studio, let's just look at it logically — I was able to sell a script called Hot Tub Time Machine. To an actual movie studio. That in and of itself seems ridiculously implausible, and yet, here we are. I think I should get an award of at least some sort of free sandwich. I will say, without giving anything away, that my goal with the screenplay was awesomeness, through and through. And audiences will not be disappointed.

Why should you trust me? I dunno. Depends on what you're trusting me with. I can make you laugh. But God help you if you go on vacation and trust me to water your plants. Because we all know what will happen. I'll probably end up f****** your plants. Not in a weird way or anything. Just, you know, sexually.

So there you go. The crazy hype has begun, and let's hope nobody lets Heald near their plants.

That honor belongs to College Humor's series Clock Suckers, which is about a group of friends that link a Simon Says toy to a bath tub, which allows them to travel in time. It's an animated short (with a lot of bad language), in which our heroes go back and mess with Al Capone, Elvis and other historical figures. A clip is included for your viewing pleasure.

To be honest, Hot Tub Time Machine lost me with the word "mojo." I only hope they travel through time by tossing a toaster into their hot water.

[Hollywood Reporter]