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Two brothers just made Netflix’s newest high school comedy about four nerdy friends that’s a raunchy throwback to movies like Superbad and American Pie that topped the box office before Hollywood stopped making them.

The sons of media mogul Peter Chernin, the CEO of Fox for more than a decade, Dave and John Chernin held onto the teenage memory of their next-door neighbour throwing a rager, and now they’ve turned it into a film.

“I remember me and Dave sitting by a window with the lights off just looking into the backyard at this raging high school house party next door, thinking that is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” John said in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum.

The new film, called Incoming, is about one such party and one such night for a group of high school freshmen who are ultimately kids still in that stage of life where anything can happen, and where something as trivial as a house party can have on outsized significance.

As time marched on the Chernins, veterans of the quirky comedy of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, felt the years pulling them further from the rambunctious spirit of their youth. Fueled by nostalgia and a burning desire to breathe life into the countless movie ideas they had scribbled down over the last decade and a half, they embarked on a quest to create the quintessential high school movie of their dreams. Despite the major studios turning away from such comedies, in part due to the shifting sands of humour’s acceptable landscape, the Chernins remained undeterred, eager to rekindle the magic of their past on the silver screen.

“We landed on the title of Incoming and realized, ‘Oh, this is four freshmen having this weird early-life identity crisis,’” Dave Chernin said. “That kind of became the engine for the story.”

Incoming’s logline is simple and straight to the point: “Four freshmen are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives: Their first high school party”. YouTube is restricting the trailer, which means it is totally available on X:

The official trailer for ‘INCOMING.’

Stars Mason Thames, Isabella Ferreira, Loren Gray, Scott MacArthur, Thomas Barbusca, Kaitlin Olson, Bobby Cannavale and many more.

Premieres on Netflix on August 23.
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Incoming hits the streaming giant on August 23.

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