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Dodgeball team score high with new idea

20 January 2006 | Written by

DreamWorks has purchased a comedy pitch from Dodgeball director Rawson Marshall Thurber for $1 million.

The story and title are being kept under wraps for now, but Ben Stiller is already attached and Thurber plans to write and direct the high-concept comedy himself.

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Errrm story? Granted I pretty much like anything with Ben Stiller (and yes that does include Along Came Polly Booreville - even though it wasn't his best), but I would like to hear a little more about it first. Really should be set in Micronesia though... More
Posted by Funkyrae at 08:39 on 24 January 2006 | Report This Post
[An Orgy Of Comedy!]
Haha, Ethan, didn't that occur in Zoolander! ;) Anyway, I'm a big fan of Ben Stiller and thought Dodgeball was hilarious (apart from the stereotypical German lass) so I hope this- whatever it is- turns out to be a good movie. -s- More
Posted by -skaster- at 15:19 on 21 January 2006 | Report This Post

Rawson Marshall Thurber = Teh Director Ben Stiller = Teh Funneh Dodgeball = Teh Film This = Teh Best Film News This Month More
Posted by Silvertouch at 18:01 on 20 January 2006 | Report This Post

i hope it has zoolanders sense of silly charm rather than the stupid crudity of dodgeball. it had a few good laughs, but only in the dialogue, very few of the actual jokes were funny. More
Posted by billythehick at 13:07 on 20 January 2006 | Report This Post
Hello!!!!
anyone remember that disgusting piece of film-makeing with Miss. Aniston and the blind ferret? are the memory spans of movie fans so patheticly short? More
Posted by Boorerville at 12:44 on 20 January 2006 | Report This Post
Can't Wait
This will be good, unless it becomes just a Stiller vehicle, and not some frat pack orgy of comedy. More
Posted by Ethanial at 11:43 on 20 January 2006 | Report This Post

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