by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Hey, did you notice Pete Davidson took a swipe at ex Kaia Gerber’s bro Presley Gerber on the last SNL from-home NBC outing? Okay, maybe it’s a reach, but he did say “I didn’t get a face tattoo.” Presley, much to the dismay of long-married parents Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, got a face inking recently. (Smiley face.)
With that allegation out of the way, THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND is the name of new Judd Apatow creation starring mercurial Pete Davidson. It’s a weird close-to-life Davidson as a strange person, lol, coming from Universal Picture on June 12.
Here’s Pete on SNL sans face ink, and Universal’s formal 411 follows.
Presley-ing His Case For Nice Guy Status?
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND is Almost Here…
Over his storied career, Judd Apatow has elevated a series of promising young comedy talents to their first major big-screen performance, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer and Kumail Nanjiani.
This summer, Apatow directs Saturday Night Live breakout Pete Davidson in a bracing comedy about love, loss and laughter on Staten Island.
Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow, HBO’s Euphoria) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Oscar® winner Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys—Oscar (Ricky Velez, Master of None), Igor (Moises Arias, Five Feet Apart) and Richie (Lou Wilson, TV’s The Guest Book)—and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley, Apple TV+’s The Morning Show).
But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray (Bill Burr, Netflix’s F Is for Family), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
The film also stars Steve Buscemi as Papa, a veteran firefighter who takes Scott under his wing, and Pamela Adlon (FX’s Better Things) as Ray’s ex-wife, Gina.
The King of Staten Island is directed by Apatow (Trainwreck, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) from a script by Apatow, Davidson and former SNL writer Dave Sirus. It is produced by Apatow for his Apatow Productions alongside Barry Mendel. Together, the duo shared producing credits on the Academy Award®-nominated films The Big Sick and Bridesmaids, as well as This Is 40, Trainwreck and Funny People. The film’s executive producers are Pete Davidson, Michael Bederman and Judah Miller.
Something (hopefully funny) to look forward to anyway, ps.
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