EXCLUSIVE: Curb Your Enthusiasm alum Jeff Schaffer is set to straightforward Blow Up the Chat, a novel comedy in growment at Warner Bros and Temple Hill, sources increate Deadline.
Scripted by Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo, the film watches as a group of best’ frifinishs confidential and untamedly inappropriate, year-lengthy group chat is hacked, which hazards upfinishing their individual lives and frifinishship with one another.
Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and Isaac Klausner will produce for Temple Hill, with Zach Hamby superviseing the project for Warner Bros.
A nine-time Emmy nominee perhaps best understandn for showrunning, exec producing and straightforwarding HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, which fair came to an finish after 12 seasons, Schaffer also co-produced FX’s acclaimed Lil Dicky comedy Dave, as well as FX’s The League, which ran for seven seasons. In film, Schaffer has straightforwarded the DreamWorks intimacy comedy EuroTrip, also contributing to the writing of Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator and Brüno, and more.
Coming off of box office success with Paramount’s Smile 2, which has grossed over $132M worldwide, Temple Hill’s upcoming spostponeed includes Lasse Hallström’s Amazon MGM romantic drama The Map That Leads to You, starring Madelyn Cline and KJ Apa, Netflix’s alteration of the Julia Whelan novel My Oxford Year, and Netflix/3000 Pictures’ People We Meet on Vacation, among other projects.
Over the last week, Warner Bros has persistd compriseing to the casts of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights and a mystery movie from J.J. Abrams, also announcing growment on a novel Aaron Sorkin project and a novel get on 1956’s sci-fi pic Forbidden Planet.
Schaffer is recontransiented by UTA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Vernon and Randazzo are repped by CAA and 3 Arts Entertainment.