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Fox Searchlight has acquired Motherf***er, a comedy pitch that has Daryl Wein attached to direct and Michael London and Jocelyn Hayes-Simpson producing through London’s Groundswell banner. Wein will write the script with Zoe Lister-Jones, his writing partner on the indie Breaking Upwards. The comedy is about a guy who falls in love with a girl. When she brings him home to meet her parents, he falls for his girlfriend’s mom. Wein directed and self-financed Breaking Upwards, and he and Lister-Jones starred as a New York couple that strategized their own breakup. The duo’s script Lola Versus is separately in talks to land at Searchlight, possibly with Anne Hathaway attached.
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I see the writers saw that episode of “The Office” where Andy, Jim and Pam watch that Cloris Leachman.
I always think it’s a cheap gimmick (albeit one that often works in Hollywood) to come up with a provocative title that ihas 0% chance of being the actual title. Why not do the hard creative work and come up with something clever that actually could be printed on a one sheet? Doesn’t doing it this way say we’re too lazy or lame to come up with something that could actually be a solution? Perhaps they could watch Something’s Gotta Give for inspiration since it’s the same hook.
You’re absolutely right. This has become a staple in H-Wood by writers who think this is the way for them to be “edgy” or “ooooh so provocative”, but in reality us in the studio biz see the DE’s gawk at it…it’s easy, lazy and lame. Writers please be more creative.
Do we really need this? I use the word more than anybody I know, but this “tee-hee, I said motherfucker in class today – tee-hee-hee”, *wink-wink*, *nudge-nudge*, is some sophomoric bullshit.
Hey, maybe they’ll even do it in 3-D!
How long before the company changes the title?
Searchlight has jumped the Shark, nuk’d the fridge or whatever (again).
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson…
This is great. They are a talented team and I am so happy to see this sort of creativity rewarded in a business filled with derivative junk!
“this sort of creativity”? as in none?
um no. i watched that movie on demand and they are most certainly talent free.
Sort of a reverse-Graduate (which, by the way, was originally titled Daughterf***er).
So it’s SOMETHINGS GOTTA GIVE. Only without Jack Nicholson?
Motherf***er. no way
How about call it: Something’s Gotta Graduate.
Hard to believe Anne Bancroft was all of 37 Cougarlicious years old when they made The Graduate.
That was the sound of money being flushed down the toilet that you just heard.
And who says Hollywood has no class. Their parents must be so proud. The writers, producer, and directors should pitch it to their Mothers on Mothers day. Could you imagine how funny that would be. OMG LOL.
Really doesn’t work, unless its HIS mom.
We don’t even know if he ends up banging mom,so isn’t the title “Mother****er” a little, shall we say,” Premature? “. Not that I’m implying anything.
Maybe the title should have been “Retribution” — the title of the hilarious Woody Allen short story with the same plot.
Sucks balls. The pitch sucked balls. I sat in the room and it sucked balls. We passed we pased we passed. Wow, hilarious title. Title sucks balls.
Jayson, you sir have been to the front lines of crappy decision making in hollywood,(not that I’m the world’s greatest fucking genius, but I do have my moment’s), you deserve to be a guest on “How Hollywood Decisions are Made”. To bad such a show doesn’t exist,-yet. You know, some of this shit really smacks of scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas, so maybe open a few new barrels?