Ben Stiller's directorial work has been focused on the small screen in the last few years, especially the award-winning Escape At Dannemora. But according to Collider, he's still interested on film jobs, and is in talks to make crime drama The Seven Five for MGM.
It adapts the eponymous 2014 documentary by Tiller Russell and Eli Holzman, which focuses on a corrupt NYPD precinct in the '80s and its ringleader Michael Dowd, who was arrested in 1992 with a handful of other dirty cops who stole money and drugs. He served 14 years in prison, and his arrest exposed widespread corruption among the New York police force.
Sony nabbed the adaptation rights back in 2015, attaching Yann Demange to direct from a script by Scott Frank. But while the studio never made the film, shoving it into turnaround limbo, Michael De Luca, who was president of production then and is now the boss of MGM, decided to keep tabs on it. Stiller has been working on a new draft of the script with The Favourite's Tony McNamara, which points to him taking a keen interest in the film. Acting-wise, Stiller will be seen in Doug Liman's pandemic heist comedy Lockdown, which will premiere (in the US at least) on HBO Max.