Stiller To Star In, Direct, Exec Produce HBO Comedy Pilot 'All Talk'; Rudin, Foer, Alda Also In Mix (DH, THR)
By Nancy Tartaglione-Moore
Ben Stiller will star in, direct and executive produce HBO's comedy pilot "All Talk." Alan Alda is in negotiations to co-star in the project from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. Scott Rudin is exec producing with Stiller, Eli Bush and Foer.
Series revolves around the daily and life-altering dramas of a Jewish family in Washington, DC and is described as "politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent."
If Alda joins, it would be his first series regular role since M*A*S*H. Stiller and Alda previously worked together in "Flirting With Disaster" while Stiller and Rudin have previously collaborated on several projects, including "Zoolander," "The Royal Tenenbaums" and the Broadway revival of John Guare's "The House of Blue Leaves."
Filming is tentatively scheduled to begin in the fall.
Related Links
Ben Stiller To Star, Direct And Produce HBO Comedy Pilot Produced By Scott Rudin; Alan Alda In Negotiations To Co-Star (DH)Ben Stiller, Jonathan Safran Foer Team for Jewish Family Comedy at HBO (THR)
Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood (NYT)
Film jobs up, TV jobs down through 2018 (VAR)
Crime spinoffs aren't paying (VAR)
Telepicutres pilot is source of Adam Corolla-Kevin Smith feud (VAR)
Rihanna To Launch TV Fashion Show For Sky (SKY)
Demi Moore drops out of 'Lovelace,' will seek professional assistance to treat exhaustion and improve overall health (DH)
