Jonah Hill will direct his first feature, Mid-’90s, from his own screenplay about a kid growing up in Los Angeles’s skateboarding scene in the 1990s, Variety reports. Scott Rudin and Eli Bush will produce for auteur distributors A24. There’s no confirmation that the script is autobiographical, but it’s certainly a milieu Hill knows well. In this video in which he picks his favorite skateboarding videos—he has favorite skateboarding videos—he talks about his youth as a skater:
I grew up skating in L.A., and my skate shop was Hot Rod … I grew up skating the courthouse, like that’s where I would go every day.
Hill won’t appear in the film, which puts him in the position to pass the torch as it was passed to him. In his first starring role in Superbad, Hill played a character loosely based on Seth Rogen, who wrote the script with Evan Goldberg but was too old to play himself by the time the film was produced. (Michael Cera played “Evan.”) Since being cast as “Seth,” Hill has had a distinguished acting career, including two Academy Award nominations. Now he’s too old to play himself in Mid-’90s. So who will play young, skateboarding Jonah Hill? One thing’s for certain: The Oakwood should probably put some ramps in.
