After spending some years behind the camera, comedy legend Ben Stiller is returning to his first lead acting role for the comedy Nutcrackers, which he will also produce according to Deadline.
Nutcrackers will be directed by The Exorcist: Believer‘s David Gordon Green from a script by Leland Douglas (Call of the Wild). The film will follow “the work-obsessed Mike (Stiller), who must reluctantly travel to rural Ohio to look after his four rambunctious nephews after their parents die in a car accident. What begins as a three-day trip to find foster care turns into weeks of farm-life mayhem – and the realization that he doesn’t need to find them a home, they’ve found one for him.”
Stiller will produce through his company Red Hour Films with Rough House Pictures and Rivulet Media. Stiller’s last acting role was in 2017 and since then he has been in the director’s chair for all episodes of the limited series Escape at Dannemora and the first season of HBO’s dystopian thriller Severance. Stiller won a DGA award for the former series while the latter has received a great amount of critical acclaim and earned 14 Emmy nominations.
Stiller is known for several successful comedies throughout his career, such as There’s Something About Mary, Dodgeball, Tropic Thunder, Mystery Men and Starsky & Hutch to name a few. Some of those comedies have turned into equally successful franchises with Meet The Parents and Night at the Museum each turning into trilogies and his 2001 comedy Zoolander getting a sequel 15 years later.
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