Indie comedy The Hand Job is quickly gathering one of the best casts we’ve seen in ages, with Andy Samberg, Donald Glover, Bill Hader, Connie Britton, Johnny Simmons and Mae Whitman all aboard.
Hader spilled the new casting details about the film – which already boasts Scott Pilgrim’s Aubrey Plaza the lead – to Collider. It’s not a surprise that Hader’s among the cast, since his wife Maggie Carey wrote the script and is planning to make it her film-directing debut.
Plaza will play an academically driven young woman who is about to head to college. She throws herself into losing her virginity and learning all manner of sexual practices before she hits the dorm room.
The rest of the cast are a pick ‘n’ mix from great TV, including a sprinkling of SNL team members, Glover from Empire favourite Community, Britton from Friday Night Lights, plus Plaza’s Pilgrim colleagues Simmons and Shawkat (who herself has solid comedy telly roots thanks to Arrested Development).
Given the quality of the actors involved, we’re ready to watch this one right now, but we’ll all have to wait – producers Mark Gordon and Jennifer Todd are still scraping together the money to get it made, and there’s no set start date yet. Come on financial types – get this hand job going!