After tackling horror, stoner life, cancer comedy and zombie romantic comedy, Jonathan Levine is in talks to deal with something even more terrifying: family dysfunction. He’s been offered the job of directing a new, untitled comedy for Fox that has Trainwreck’s Amy Schumer attached to write and star.
Plot specifics on the project are still being kept quiet, but the basic idea is apparently about a mother and daughter on a holiday that goes horribly, hilariously wrong, yet allows for some family bonding.
Katie Dippold (who wrote The Heat for Paul Feig and is working with him on the new Ghostbusters) was responsible for the original draft of the script, using her relationship with her own mother as fuel. Schumer, no stranger to riffs on family connections, has adapted it for her voice, writing alongside her sister Kim Caramele, who regularly serves as a producer on her show and worked on Trainwreck.
Feig is producing via his company, while Dippold remains attached as an executive producer. As for Levine, he has Christmas comedy The Night Before (which reunites his 50/50 stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen) due out here on December 4.