Get Him To The Greek And Forgetting Sarah Marshall New May 2026

If you want to cry and laugh, watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall . If you want to laugh and feel vaguely guilty about the music industry, watch Get Him to the Greek . But if you truly want the "new" experience, watch them back to back. Witness the birth of a rock star in Hawaii, and his rebirth in a puddle of his own vomit in Los Angeles.

For fans searching for something "new" in the connective tissue of these two films, the rabbit hole goes deeper than you might remember. From abandoned cameos to character assassination and redemption, here is the complete, long-form breakdown of the Forgetting Sarah Marshall / Get Him to the Greek complex. When audiences first met Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall , he was a paradox. He was the antagonist—the rock star who stole Peter Bretter's (Jason Segel) girlfriend, Sarah (Kristen Bell). Yet, writer/star Jason Segel and director Nicholas Stoller made a brilliant choice: they didn't villainize him. Aldous was kind, zen, well-endowed, and utterly oblivious. He wasn't a jerk; he was just a hippie hedonist who happened to be a better fit for Sarah. get him to the greek and forgetting sarah marshall new

The scripts for Get Him to the Greek originally included a Jason Segel cameo. The plan was for Aaron to run into Peter at a bar, where Peter would be celebrating the success of A Taste of Love (the Dracula musical). According to interviews with Stoller, the scene was cut because it "stopped the movie dead." It was too self-referential. If you want to cry and laugh, watch