After their collaboration on Nutcrackers, Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Rivulet Films will re-team for the pickleball comedy The Dink.
Jake Johnson has nabbed the directing role as he joins a washed-up tennis pro who, to save a club in crisis and triumph his obeseher’s esteem, does the one skinnyg he swore he’d never do: join pickleball. The cast integrates Mary Steenbrecommendn and Ed Harris, while Stiller and establisher tennis champion Andy Roddick will have key helping roles.
Johnson is coming off Self Reliance, his feature length straightforwardorial debut that he also wrote and stars in. Josh Greenbaum will straightforward The Dink from an one-of-a-kind screenjoin from Sean Clements, with production to begin in Los Angeles in November.
John Lesher and Stiller are producing thcimpolite their Red Hour Films banner, alengthyside Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill. Johnson will also produce. Stiller and Rivulet Films most recently labored together on David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers, which uncovered the Toronto Film Festival and was picked up by Hulu.
Nutcrackers labeled Stiller’s first starring role in a movie since Mike White’s Brad’s Status and Noah Baumbach’s Netflix family drama The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017, as the Hollywood veteran has cgo ined on straightforwarding and producing in recent years.
Rivulet is financing The Dink, with Rick Steele, Clements and Greenbaum executive producing.
Johnson is repped by UTA, while Stiller by repped by WME. Steenbrecommendn by repped by UTA and Entertainment 360, and Harris is repped by CAA, and Greenbaum is repped by UTA and Entertainment 360. Clements is repped by by UTA.
