It would appear that after spending years languishing in development, sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch (we’ll keep spelling it the American way for now) is kicking into high gear. Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn are already aboard and Rosemarie DeWitt is in negotiations to join the cast.
With the current script draft written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (and polished by Tropic Thunder’s Justin Theroux), Watch will follow Stiller as a man who moves from the big city to the ‘burbs. Naturally, he expects the pace of life to slow down considerably, but he reckons without the local neighbourhood watch group, which, he discovers, has to deal with a somewhat more unusual problem than burglars and vandalism. How so? Aliens suddenly invade the area.
Vaughn is playing one of the other men who make up the Watch and now, according to Variety, DeWitt is eyeing the role of Stiller’s wife.
Hot Rod’s Akiva Schaffer will be calling the shots and hopefully enjoying more box-office success than the underrated stunt comedy received, since we want to see him getting more work.
DeWitt was last seen in The Company Men and will crop up in the likes of Kenneth Lonergan’s long-delayed drama Margaret and next year’s Disney fantasy The Odd Life Of Timothy Gree****n.