With Cameron Diaz comedy Bad Teacher having hauled in almost $215 million worldwide (not bad on a $30 million budget) Sony is naturally eager to stay in business with the people who made it, namely director Jake Kasdan and writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (yes, even though the last two wrote Year One). While the trio isn’t working on a sequel to the film right now, they have come up with another, untitled comedy concept.
The new film revolves around a manager at US hairdressing chain Supercuts advising his best friend to break off his engagement. But to make matters worse, he then falls in love with the man’s jilted fiancée, putting both his new romance and his longstanding friendship at risk…
At this early stage, there’s no word on any casting for the film, nor is there a schedule for the shoot. Kasdan also has Family Getaway – about an assassin trying to keep his wife and kids safe on a road trip – on his To Do List, but that’s still only at the script stage too.
Talking of scripts, Deadline takes the opportunity of a reference to Stupnitsky and Eisenberg to update on the progress of Ghostbusters III (they have been writing the screenplay), which is apparently still stuck in a holding pattern thanks to the whims of Bill Murray. Is the new movie ever going to get made outside of Dan Aykroyd’s head? It’s not looking good at the moment…