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EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks, which partnered with Paramount and Spyglass on the Friday opener Dinner For Schmucks, is back in business with one of the film’s stars, Zach Galifianakis. DreamWorks has made a preemptive purchase of Reply All, a laffer pitch that will be written as a star vehicle for Galifianakis, who’ll produce. Phil Johnston will write the comedy, and will be executive producer. Johnston most recently scripted Cedar Rapids, the just completed Miguel Arteta-directed comedy for For Searchlight. Reply All was pitched around town early this week and DreamWorks just took it off the table.
Galifianakis will play a guy who hits the “reply all” button to an indiscreet e-mail, and then has to deal with the repercussions.
Post-Schmucks, Galifianakis will next be seen starring with the Focus comedy It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and then with Robert Downey Jr. in the Todd Phillips-directed Due Date, and he returns with Phillips to reprise his breakthrough role in the sequel to The Hangover. Galifianakis is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
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I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for a WOMAN who’s an unattractive as Galifianakis can make it just as big.
Is there anything funnier than a bitter woman?
like who?? tina fay? Knucklehead
Tina Fey unattractive? Since when?
Apparently you haven’t followed the career of Sarah Jessica Parker that closely.
can’t you just be happy for the guy? he’s been at this 20 years, and now in his 40′s, he’s getting a chance to shine. i wish him well.
and if there were a woman as talented, she would get her chance too. remember rosanne?
Whaaaaaagh!
Ugly woman comics?
Hmmmmmmmm?
That is a pretty easy list….
Here’s a tough one for the whiny little bitch who posted that question- How about a list of beautiful comics? Of either gender?
(Put that in your pipe and smoke it, you Female Chauvinist Pig!)
Sounds good to me. If Dreamworks didn’t buy it I would have, haha.
I just saw ZG in Operation Endgame last night. Although he only had one scene with actual speaking in it, I was floored by his acting. It was the first time that I thought ‘wow, this guy is a REALLY good dramatic actor.’
I am hoping that ‘Due Date’ will provide further evidence of this. And I can’t wait for ‘Schmucks’ this weekend, even though the trailers make it look kinda lame and the title is a turn-off. It will for sure be the funniest film of the summer.
LOVE this guy! The hairier, porkier and goofier this guy gets the more roles he wins (although he did this one without the hairy and porky features I’m sure). The way this guy makes otherwise awkward situations completely laughable is comic genius. Really looking forward to watching this film.
Does he ever play any other character? I’m already done with this guy.
anyone who will take a picture with grandma blowing him in the elevator deserves all the success in the world.
nothing like setting the success bar so high; gives the next generation something to shoot for.
It took nearly two decades to accomplish, but I’m really glad to see Galifianakis’ career finally taking off. He deserves it.
i like Zach
but Due Date trailer looks painfully unfunny.
Odd how there’s a project with the exact same premise at Summit, called “Reply to All.” Hmm…
Mmmm?
Tell us more…
An entire movie about an email? Really? What’s next? A script about texting called “SMS”?
Yes. The whole movie is about an email. Well spotted. With that level of vision clearly you’re a development exec.
zing!
I’ll name 4 WOMEN – Chris
Barbra Streisand
Whoopi Goldberg
Bette Midler
Rosie O’Donnell
And not coincidentally enough, all women who became famous pre 1990.
His role in “Schmucks” pretty much looks like Dwight Schrute with a beard. Those scenes from the trailers with him and Carrel make me feel like I’m watching NBC on Thursday nights.
Given the media buy of the ads, you probably were.
Nyuk nyuk.
Actually, you’re very right. I just saw an advanced screening of “Schmucks” last night, and it felt like an episode of “The Office”. Just a whole lot more crude. Glad I didn’t actually PAY to see it.
I’d be into a Seth Galifianakis biopic.
I’m already done with Zach Galifiankis. He plays the same character in Due Date as he did in Hangover and he’ll play in this. We get it, you’re annoying but loveable, and ever so wacky. A little range would be nice.
phil johnston is a complete hack. i smell BOMB.
First of all, Phil Johnston is a great writer and a great guy.
And second, hack write hits and brilliant writers write bombs. What you’re saying is you don’t like Phil and you HOPE it’s a bomb.
Jealous much?
I’d rather see a “Between Two Ferns” feature.
Easily the funniest person on earth.
That’s exactly right friend. He needs to bomb to prove he’s not a hack, just being a great guy isn’t going to get him very far.
I like Zach a lot, thought his SNL was very funny (especially the bidet sketch), but the premise for this movie sounds like it could barely fill an episode of a sitcom. In fact, I remember the New Adventures of Christine using this exact premise once. Oh well, Zach’s great, maybe I’ll see it anyway.
Galifianakis needs to make an absurdist comedy. That is his genius. He need to write, with a director who can appreciate his sensibility. He will die if all they cast him in is cuddly loser roles.
Check out his SNL bidet skit — sick, mannered, funny.
you need to see visioneers
Late bloomers!
Johnny-come-latelys!
Zac may just be too “deep” for you to get.
Viva Fat Jesus!
Yay Phil, you midwestern son-of-a-preacher boy you.