commented on writing and directing a movie about imaginary friends the same year he’s releasing a memoir titled . “Krasinski tried to copy me! John, I know you’re gonna read this, stop it! Call me, and we can collaborate next time,” Ellis, 42, joked about Krasinski’s film while speaking exclusively with at MPTF’s NextGen Annual Summer Party in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 23. Quips aside, Ellis said he’s “super excited [that] this is the imaginary friends summer.
” He pointed out that the horror movie , which features a dark entity lurking inside a child’s teddy bear, and the Pixar film , which follows an ensemble of characters that represent one teenage girl’s emotions, also came out this year. “This is just an imaginary — a very creative — play-filled summer,” the alum said. “I’m excited about it.
” Ellis’ memoir is out Tuesday, July 30, and is based on his childhood imaginary friend. “It’s a collection of short stories that thematically all go together, but it’s this wild, adventurous childhood that I grew up with and this imaginary friend who helped me through it,” he explained. “And really, it’s a love letter to the ’90s, it’s a love letter to my family because I bounced around and spent summers in different places.
So, [it’s for] all the people who raised me, my friends. A love letter to all the cities that I lived in, my dad was in the Air Force so I moved around a lot.” Ellis shared that writing the book got him b.