In I Love You Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey plays Steven Russell, a real-life con artist that falls in love with his cell mate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).
Following Morris' release, Russell actually escapes from prison multiple times in order to be reunited with the title characters.
The movie is scheduled for a February 12, 2010 release and here's the first official poster for it:
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The first official photo from Jim Carrey's upcoming romantic dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris has been published by Jim Carrey Online.
I Love You Phillip Morris tells the tale of Steven Russell (Jim Carrey), a married conman who finds himself in a Texan prison, where he falls in love with Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). Hence, the image below:
Steven Rusell will fall in love with Phillip Morris in early 2009.
Amazingly enough, this isn't a sequel to The Birdcage.
It's actually Jim Carrey and Rodrigo Santoro (not pictured) shooting scenes for I Love You Phillip Morris.
The movie is based on a novel about a married father who gets sentenced to three years in prison. He ends up falling in love with his cellmate, played by Ewan McGregor. When his cellmate gets released, Jim's character escapes from prison three times in order to be with him.
Naturally.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leslie Mann will be joining Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy I Love You Phillip Morris.
The movie follows a married father (Carrey) who is sent to prison and falls in love with a cellmate named Phillip Morris. Naturally. This love leads him to make several escape attempts. Mann will play Carrey's wife.
Mann, who is married to director Judd Apatow, will next be seen in Seventeen Again opposite Zac Efron.
Jim Carrey has found the man with whom he'll soon fall in love: Ewan McGregor.
McGregor has signed on as Carrey's romantic lead- seriously! - in I Love You Phillip Morris. The film is described as a "dark comedy" that is based on a true story (and a book by Steve McVicker), that traces the plight of Texas convict Steven Russell, a married father who fell in love with his cellmate.
Here's how Variety explains the premise:
[Russell's] love for Morris motivated his escape from prisons four times, once by using a green pen and bucket of water to change his prison outfit into what appeared to be surgical scrubs, another time by faking his death from AIDS and signing his own death certificate. Morris eventually got out, but Russell's escapades got him a 144-year sentence.
Carrey and McGregor will start working on the movie this spring.
