
Justin Malen has been hired to rewrite The Manny for Gary Sanchez and Red Wagon at Sony. Malen is hot off his script Bastards, which sold last summer to Paramount with Montecito & H2F producing. The Manny is an R-rated comedy about an unemployed (and soon-to-be homeless) recent college grad who, after exhausting all the normal ways of getting a job in the financial world, actually tries nannying his way into one. He figures that if he becomes the manny for the kid of a Wall Street magnate, it will lead to a real job. In the meantime, he’ll be getting paid to live like a prince on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He’s repped by Verve.


Love the Justin Malen. Not only is he batshit funny, he’s a great guy. Top notch…and apparently he just booked the only OWA in town.
Good for H2F as well. They are baking some sweet bread over there.
nice comment by Verve agent!
Malen’s one of the best comedic voices I’ve read in the last couple years. Good for him. Great guy and well-deserved!
Yes, I like Justin a lot too, same with H2F. But if you believe that THE MANNY which has been in development for years is the only OWA in town, I’ll gladly show you any of the agency grids that show otherwise.
Again, love Justin, but not sure why this is “news.”
If you’re gonna have your people do a PR puff piece on here (this is not news — rewrite jobs are booked plenty yet this is the only one reported?) than the least you could do is supply a professional photo
Nice! Justing Malen is hilarious and so deserving of this. Bastards was one of the funniest scripts I’ve read in a long, long time.
Terrific idea; innovative, true to life and seriously comic.
Seriously no mention of the original writer or did I miss it?