Director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Wonderland) and funnyman Jack Black (Nacho Libre , School Of Rock) have teamed up on comedy Bailout, an adaptation of a comic novel called The Financial Lives Of The Poets by Jess Walter. It's just been snagged by Universal.
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Bailout "follows the misadventures of Matt Prior (Black), who loses his job, is crippled with debt and is convinced his wife is having an affair. He's two weeks from losing his home when he meets two losers at the supermarket who offer him a strange business opportunity and his last chance to save himself." [Deadline]
It sounds like a comedy with a tinge of drama, so we'll probably get to watch Black flex his Serious Actor chops again. He's appeared in crossover movies like that before, most notably as Jennifer Jason-Leigh's fiancee in the Noah Baumbach dark comedy Margot At The Wedding, and we thought he was pretty good. So I guess we'll see.
What do you guys think the "strange business opportunity" is? Drug dealing? Department store elf-ing?
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