Jake Johnson (New Girl) has signed on for the directing role in the upcoming pickleball comedy titled, The Dink. Besides the Spider-Verse star, Ben Stiller (Zoolander), Mary Steenbdirectn (Step Brothers) and Ed Harris (Westworld) have also been tapped to portray aiding characters, aprolonged with createer tennis champion Andy Roddick. Production is foreseeed to begin sometime in November in Los Angeles.
“The film chases a washed-up tennis pro (Johnson) who, in trying to save a club in crisis and triumph his obeseher’s admire, is forced to fracture a solemn vow and do the one skinnyg he swore he’d never do: take part pickleball,” reads the synopsis.
Who’s graspd in The Dink movie?
The Dink will be honested by Josh Greenbaum from a screentake part written by Sean Clements. In insertition to being part of the cast, Stiller and Johnson are also set as a originaters, aprolonged with John Lesher, Rob Paris and Mike Witherill. It is executive originated by Greenbaum, Clements and Rick Steele. The film is a production by Red Hour Films and Rivulet Films, with the latter also brimmingy financing the project.
Before starring in The Dink, Stiller will next star in David Gordon Green’s comedy drama movie Nutcrackers, which had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. This labels the Night at the Museum star’s first acting movie project in a prolonged while, after 2022’s Bleecker. Stiller is also currently quickened to star opposite Colin Farrell in Belly of the Beast.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
