Veteran TV director Don Scardino has come on board to helm Steve Carell’s magician comedy “Burt Wonderstone” for New Line. The writing team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein penned the most recent draft.
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Veteran TV director Don Scardino has come on board to helm Steve Carell’s magician comedy “Burt Wonderstone” for New Line. The writing team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein penned the most recent draft.
Source: Variety
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers…permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.
Horrible Bosses
Release: July 8, 2011
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeeikis, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Julie Bowen, Donald Sutherland, Lindsay Sloane, Kevin Pennington, John Francis Daley, Isaiah Mustafa
Director: Seth Gordon
Writers: Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, Jonathan M Goldstein
The challenge of working on Horrible Bosses, according to screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, was trying to make the film’s premise — three average joes plotting to kill their work supervisors — credible. Insert the heinous employers played by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and a barely recognizable Colin Farrell, who drive their respective employees Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis to premeditated murder.
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Horrible Bosses opens in theaters July 8, 2011 starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Julie Bowen, Donald Sutherland, Lindsay Sloane, Kevin Pennington, John Francis Daley, Isaiah Mustafa
Anna Kendrick and John Francis Daley are in talks to star in Lionsgate’s post-apocalyptic comedy Rapture-Palooza, one of the first titles from the mini-major’s new micro-budgeted production initiative.
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In a chat with EW, Daly, whose name also earns a writing credit on Horrible Bosses, out July 8, breaks down his first experience writing an episode of Bones, the “nerve-wracking” scene he shared with his father (who guest stars in the ep), and the season finale of Bones. (Preview: “…they are not renewing my contract.” By the way, I’m totally throwing you off with that snippet.)
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