Crashers And Sideways Directors Team Up

Exclusive: Payne and Dobkin plan a new comedy


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At the Wedding Crashers premiere this evening, we naturally turned the questions for director David Dobkin to his next project. Now, last we heard, he was planning to work on a fantasy film called Jack, which he described as "a Lord of the Rings take on Jack and the Beanstalk. A big, action, family movie." But in the last few weeks he's decided to skip ahead to make I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, which will be written by Oscar-winning screenwriter and acclaimed director Alexander Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor. Like Dobkin's current film, this one will feature a wedding

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