"Paul" is a 2011 comic science fiction road film directed by Greg Mottola from a screenplay by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Starring Pegg and Frost, with the voice and motion capture of Seth Rogen as the titular character, the film follows two science fiction geeks who come across an alien. Together, they help the alien escape from the Secret Service agents who are pursuing him so that he can return to his home world. The film is a parody of other science-fiction films, especially those of Steven Spielberg, as well as of science fiction fandom in general.

It is a British-American venture produced by Working Title Films, StudioCanal, Big Talk Pictures and Relativity Media, and distributed by Universal Pictures. Paul was released on 14 February 2011 in the United Kingdom and on 18 March 2011 in the United States to generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $98 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.

Best friends Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings are British comic book and sci-fi enthusiasts who travel to the United States to attend the annual San Diego Comic-Con. They embark on a road trip through the South-Western United States to visit UFO sites on a remote desert highway at night.

After a brush with homophobic rednecks at a diner, they watch a car driving erratically and crashing. Stopping to offer assistance to the driver, he is revealed to be Paul, an alien.

Cast

• Simon Pegg as Graeme Willy
• Nick Frost as Clive Gollings
• Seth Rogen as Paul (voice and motion capture)
• Jason Bateman as Special Agent Lorenzo Zoil. Describing his character as an "exaggerated nasty guy", Bateman based his portrayal of Zoil on Yaphet Kotto in Midnight Run and Tommy Lee Jones in "The Fugitive". His name is a play-on of the film, "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992).
• Kristen Wiig as Ruth Buggs
• Bill Hader as Agent Haggard
• Blythe Danner as Tara Walton
• Mia Stallard as Young Tara Walton
• Joe Lo Truglio as Agent O'Reilly
• John Carroll Lynch as Moses Buggs, Ruth's father
• Jane Lynch as Pat Stevens
• David Koechner as Gus, a redneck whom Graeme and Clive first encounter in a Nevada gas station.
• Jesse Plemons as Jake, Gus's friend.
• Sigourney Weaver as "The Big Guy". In an interview with Graham Norton, Weaver stated: "It's a love letter to sci-fi fans. I jumped at the chance to be in it. To find a comedy that also pays homage to sci-fi is a dream come true."
• Syd Masters as himself, singing cowboy on stage
• Jeffrey Tambor as Adam Shadowchild, a famous science fiction writer
• Steven Spielberg as Himself (voice)

In an interview for the DVD release of Paul, Pegg and Frost said they made the film to demonstrate their love for Steven Spielberg's films "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial", as well as their favorite science-fiction films. After they mentioned the project to Spielberg, he suggested he might make a cameo appearance, and a scene was added to include him as a voice on a speakerphone in 1980 discussing ideas with Paul for his soon-to-become box office hit "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". According to Robert Kirkman, he, along with Invincible co-creator Cory Walker and Invincible artist Ryan Ottley, had a cameo in the film as the Big Guy's henchmen.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the full write-up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)

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