Former Saturday Night Live star, Amy Poehler, has signed on to star in Lunch Lady, a big-screen comedy based on an upcoming series of graphic novels for kids.
Poehler will star as a mild-mannered lunch lady by day who secretly masquerades as an ass-kicking crimefighter at night, aided by her assistant. The graphic novels, the first of which is due at the end of July, also focus on three kids who grow suspicious about what the lunch lady gets up to when she’s not dishing out substandard food.
Jarrett Krosoczka is the writer and illustrator of the **Lunch Lady **series, which boast wonderfully outlandish names like Lunch Lady And The League Of Librarians, Lunch Lady And The Cyborg Substitute and Lunch Lady And The Summer Camp Shakedown, which seem to hint at a jocular, slightly batty tone that should be perfect for Poehler.
Since leaving SNL during the most recent season, Poehler has moved on to the sitcom, Parks And Recreation, which has been picked up for a second season. But Lunch Lady is evidence that Mrs. Will Arnett is still targeting a movie career, following the success of her last outing, Baby Mama.
Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern are writing the Lunch Lady script, while Universal is backing the project with cold hard cash that it had saved for its lunch.