As reported by DeadlineMark Hamill plays the lead role in addition to shirtless comedian Bert Kreischer in a movie based on Kreischer’s signature stand-up routine billed as’The hangover meets Midnight RunThe stand-up bit revolves around a story where Kreischer goes to Russia as part of a class trip at university and how – in a moment of panic because he barely speaks the language – he tells a group of gangsters that his name is ” the machine.” They’re so tickled by this (and by Kreischer’s talent for drinking a lot) that they go on several alcoholic adventures with him, culminating in a crazy train robbery, and it’s all absolutely, totally, true (absolutely). Here, Kreischer tells the story himself:
The movie – called The machine-will serve as a sort of sequel, with Kreischer being caught up 20 years after robbing the train when he and his father (presumably Hamill) are kidnapped by Russian gangsters. So it’s gonna be a drunken party movie crossed with a comic crime thriller … so yeah, The hangover meets Midnight Run, certainly.
Interestingly, this won’t be the first film loosely based on Bert Kreischer’s life. When he was in college, he was the subject of a Rolling stone piece about how he was the best reveler at the largest party school in the country, a quirk he’d essentially been drunk for six years at Florida State University. Although Kreischer was not involved, that story presumably would served as the basis for National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, which means we may not have gotten the Ryan Reynolds we all know and love today if not because of this guy’s refusal to just calm down and go to class. Hey, maybe Ryan Reynolds could make a cameo in the movie! And maybe he could play Deadpool in the cameo! And refer to the fact that Mark Hamill played Luke Skywalker!