In recent years, Meet The Parents director Jay Roach has turned his attention more towards political subjects as with HBO TV movies Recount and Game Change and the Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis comedy The Campaign. While his latest film, Trumbo is a lot more serious, he’s looking to get back into funnier territory with **Mad Dogs{
Wes Jones is attached to use Six Days Of The Condor author James Grady’s eponymous book as the launching pad for a conspiracy-tinged script about three dysfunctional people working low-level jobs in US intelligence. When their bosses become convince that they’re crazy, the trio is packed off to a government psychiatric hospital for espionage types, where they soon begin to fear that the higher-ups want them dead. Clearly they know too much and have to plot an escape plan, but they also need to figure out exactly what it is that has gotten them into hot water...
Grady’s work was previously turned into one of the landmark conspiracy thrillers with 1975’s Three Days Of The Condor. This probably won’t help to anchor a genre, but it could at least be good for a laugh.
Roach’s Trumbo, about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo will be out in the US this year but appears scheduled to arrive over here in 2016. The director and Jones are already busy collaborating on a project, The Brink, an HBO political comedy starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins about the American government and military trying to head off a geopolitical crisis.