Trailer Teaser: Away We Go

Reigning literary king and queen, Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida have ventured into Hollywood with the aptly titled Away We Go. The husband and wife pair has woven anecdotes accumulated during their first pregnancy into the story of a mid-thirties couple coming to terms with starting a family.

Comedic talents John Krasinksi (The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) are directed by Briton Sam Mendes, who continues to indulge his preoccupation with the American family. From his caustic debut American Beauty, to the not-so-Stepford Revolutionary Road, Mendes’s films tend to look beyond the white picket fence to the fragile realties of the American Dream.

Away We Go looks to be a more joyful take on this theme, with Eggers and Vida using the road trip genre as a way of investigating the different guises of parenthood. Indeed, the pair penned the screenplay as a bit of light relief while working on their darker novels: for Eggers the sublime What is the What and for Vida, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name.

So, we have a husband and wife writing team of ridiculous talent, who have a publishing house, edit the influential literary quarterly McSweeney’s, come across as hilariously witty in interviews (see here and here) and write an indie comedy on a whim. Not quite jealous enough? They also founded 826 Valencia, a writing centre aimed at helping school aged children, that has expanded to seven chapters around America.

Literary world domination? Away we go.

Australian release date: 29 October 2009

US release date: 26 June 2009

UK release date: 18 September 2009

Update: Speaking of the talented Mr. Eggers, check out his awesome adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. Furry goodness!