Writing pair ready for "Fun"
Newly York (Hollywood Newsperson) - Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein take "Hours of Fun" in entrepot working on the family unit drollery. Walt Disney Studios and Winfield Scott Rudin Prods. let hired the duad to rewrite the screenplay by Greg Yard.
The tentatively titled "Fun" is the history of iI puerility friends world Health Organization ordered a slue of freshness toys (such as X ray specs, Sea-Monkeys and transforming robots) from the gage pages of their late-'70s comic books. Thirty years after, the toys begin living up to their natural state advertising claims, forcing the pair to write their town from the ensuing bedlam.
"Finger cymbals" star Francis Daley (known for his role on "Freaks and Geeks") and Goldstein ("The New Adventures of Old Christine") sold their comedy specification script "The $40,000 Human race" to New Line in 2007. The studio has signed Terry cloth Zwigoff ("Ghost World," "Bad Santa") to direct.
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