Jason Bateman Samples Extract
This entry was posted on 4/28/2008 11:38 AM and is filed under Casting About.
Jason Bateman has signed on to topline the new comedy from
Beavis and Butt-Head and
Office Space creator Mike Judge,
according to The Hollywood Reporter. Entitled
Extract,
the film centers around a flower extract plant owner dealing with workplace issues and a stream of bad luck, including his wife's affair with a gigolo (hopefully not portrayed by Rob Schneider). North American distribution rights have been snapped up by Miramax, which has a notoriously deep shelf, even post-Weinsteins; hopefully the movie gets treated better than Judge's
Idiocracy, which saw a corporate-snuffed micro-release from 20th Century Fox in 2006.
