That dude seems very
unlucky, honestly.
Per the Hollywood
Reporter, Jason Bateman is teaming up with writer Mark Perez (Game Night) to adapt the novel Superworld, released by writer and film
producer Gus Krieger recently as an Amazon audiobook. . The story takes place
in 2038, in a world where everyone has superpowers, except for the
eccentrically named Ignatius Lohman. Lohman works a white-collar job while everyone
else, presumably, gets to do cool super stuff all the time. But he’ll get his
chance to be a hero when a villain rises up who can negate superpowers.
Jason Bateman will
be directing the project, mind you, not acting in it (so far as we know)—over
the past few years he’s taken a turn as director and seems to be pretty good at
it. Bateman and Perez have previously worked together on the film Game Night, a 2018 action comedy in which
Bateman starred opposite Rachel McAdams. It was a well-liked film, and shows
that Bateman has the chops to pull off something in the superheroic space.
The project will
happen under the warner Bros. banner—they have the book rights—with Bateman
directing, Perez writing, and David Kanter and Jeff Okin of Anonymous Content
producing. It doesn’t have a release date yet.
https://gizmodo.com/jason-bateman-will-potentially-do-it-with-the-candlesti-1838460113
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