Ben Stiller is about to star alongside Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris and Andy Roddick for pickleball comedy.
Ben Stiller returns to the world of sports activities with an all-star forged for a brand new movie.
Pink Hour Movies and Rivulet Movies will re-team for the upcoming pickleball comedy, The Dink, which is about to star Jake Johnson (Spiderverse movies, Self Reliance, New Woman) within the main function, with Mary Steenburgen (E book Membership collection) and Ed Harris (Pollock) additionally set to star. Ben Stiller (Zoolander) and former tennis champion Andy Roddick could have key supporting roles. Josh Greenbaum (the upcoming Spaceballs sequel for MGM, Will & Harper) will direct the unique screenplay from Sean Clements (Workaholics). Principal pictures is about to start in Los Angeles in November.
The Dink follows a washed-up tennis professional (Johnson) who, in making an attempt to save lots of a membership in disaster and win his father’s respect, is pressured to interrupt a solemn vow and do the one factor he swore he’d by no means do: play pickleball.
John Lesher and Ben Stiller are producing by their Pink Hour Movies banner alongside Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill. Jake Johnson will even function a producer. Stiller and Rivulet’s most up-to-date collaboration, Nutcrackers directed by David Gordon Inexperienced, simply opened the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition the place it offered for eight figures to Hulu in a aggressive state of affairs. Rivulet will even be totally financing this manufacturing and the corporate’s senior strategic advisor Rick Steele will function Government Producer alongside Sean Clements and Josh Greenbaum.
In the meantime, Stiller will even star in one other upcoming movie from Rivulet Movies, which could have him directed by The Exorcist: Believer‘s David Gordon Inexperienced titled Nutcrackers. Nutcrackers follows the work-obsessed Mike (Ben Stiller), who should reluctantly journey to rural Ohio to take care of his 4 rambunctious nephews after their mother and father die in a automotive accident. After run-ins with the native deputy (Tim Heidecker) and misguided makes an attempt to unload the boys on an orphan profiteer (Edi Patterson) and an eccentric empty-nester millionaire (Toby Huss), Mike turns into smitten with social employee Gretchen (Linda Cardellini), who helps him on his journey to discover a house for the boys.
Stiller’s involvement with Nutcrackers ends a six-year chill time for the comedic actor. Rivulet Movies’ Rob Paris and Mike Witherill, Pink Hour Movies’ Ben Stiller and John Lesher, and Tough Home Photos‘ Nate Meyer are producing. Rivulet financed the movie, which lately wrapped manufacturing outdoors Cincinnati, Ohio.
