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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is an upcoming comedy film based upon British writer Toby Young's 2001 memoir, also called How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. The film will follow a similar storyline, about his five year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Vanity Fair magazine — though the names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work it was built upon.
It will be directed by Robert B. Weide and star Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, Megan Fox as Sophie Maes, Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen, Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding, and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Johnson. How to Lose Friends And Alienate People is currently in post-production with a release date in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2008.
British writer Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), who despises the world of celebrity, leads efforts on an alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, that mocks the media attention paid to these stars. When Young is offered a job by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) at conservative New York based Sharps magazine, he begins his ascent to success. Starting as an outsider, he makes a gradual movement from his former world, soon becoming the confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) and beginning a relationship with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) is the power-hungry publicist pulling all the strings. The events unfolding in Young's life now will either break him or make him.
Cast:
Simon Pegg as Sidney Young: Pegg plays the character based upon Toby Young as he is portrayed in the memoir.
Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen: Dunst portrays Young's love interest and elusive heroine of the memoir
Megan Fox as Sophie Maes: Fox as Sophie Maes, is a budding starlet and the object of Young's lust.
Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding: Bridges plays Clayton Harding, Young's magazine editor who is very loosely based on Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair.
Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Johnson: Anderson as Eleanor Johnson, is the publicist pulling all the strings.