Since the untimely end of the truly terrific Arrested Development, Jason Bateman has been continuing to plot his course to the top of the Hollywood comedy tree by securing small, but ultimately show-stealing parts, in Frat-pack winners such as Dodgeball, Starsky And Hutch and anti-rom-com The Break-Up. At the end of last year, he managed to wipe everyone off the screen once again by showing that the fine art of playing a drunk man in pants is alive, well and living in slick crime caper Smokin Aces’. And it was during the actor’s time on the set of Joe Carnahan’s movie that he first formulated the idea for **The Remarkable Fellows – **an action comedy that sees two brothers take over the family ‘revenge’ business. Carnahan loved it and has signed up to write and direct. It's now been repoted that Universal have just picked up the project.
Bateman told Variety: “The revenge scenario is dependent on the intricacy of the plot. If the president of a major bank was sleeping with the French ambassador's wife, the banker would call these guys." It sounds like this could be a lot of fun, but we’re going to have to wait some time for this one. Carnahan’s currently heading back to 1950’s L.A as he begins pre-production on White Jazz and Bateman, who we’ll next see in The Kingdom and Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, is about to take on Will Smith and Charlize Theron in the Peter Berg-helmed Tonight, He Comes. See, all those movies and not a single mention of the Bateman-starring sequel to Michael J.Fox’s hirsute hoop-shooting, truck-surfing creature of the night-caper. Remarkable.