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Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/i> has posted sneak peeks of a dozen movies coming out later this year, including this blurb<\/a> on Year One<\/a><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Comedy legend Harold Ramis (Caddyshack<\/i>, Groundhog Day<\/i>) first started noodling with the idea of setting a comedy in the ancient world back in, well, pretty much the Stone Age. \u201dI did an improv a long time ago with Bill Murray and John Belushi, where Bill was a Cro-Magnon man and Belushi was a Neanderthal,\u201d Ramis says. \u201dPutting a modern sensibility in an ancient context always seemed very funny to me.\u201d Flash forward approximately one eon and the Judd Apatow-produced Year One<\/i> pairs Jack Black and Michael Cera as Zed and Oh, hunter-gatherers who are banished from their village and wander through scenes from the Old Testament, encountering the likes of Cain and Abel (David Cross and Paul Rudd) and Abraham (Hank Azaria). Asked if he expects the film\u2019s religious satire to offend, Ramis laughs: \u201dI hope so!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The film is currently set to come out June 19.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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