We don’t watch SNL, but apparently there was a skit this weekend that Noah Baumbach (“Squid In The Whale,” the under appreciated “Margot At The Wedding“) c0-wrote so for that reason alone, it’s probably worth checking out.
The skit, “Clearing The Air” stars Paul Rudd, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen and apparently whateves has “proof” that Baumbach co-wrote (cause it was top-secret, right?).
That’s fine and all, but what about Baumbauch’s next film projects? Last we checked he had three project on the go:
1) A script he was adapting, “The Emperor’s Children” for Ron Howard, a novel centering around apprehensive Ivy League grads approaching their ’30s (no, seriously, that Ron Howard).
2) His next feature-length film called, “Greenberg” that he wrote with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh, starring Amy Adams and Mark Ruffalo.
3) Another possible collaboration with Wes Anderson that he hinted at in an October, 2007 interview.
[Note there was a 4th, at one point in 2006, Baumbach was scheduled to direct an adaption of “Prep,” the bestselling novel by Curtis Sittenfeld after he had directed “Margot At The Wedding” (then called “Sisters“), but “Greenburg” is definitely next and something completely different. Did “Prep” go by the wayside?]
On top of that, Baumbach also co-wrote Wes Anderson’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” an animated film which is scheduled for a November 6, 2009 release (and with Jarvis Cocker doing songs!). That one’s being animated as we speak.
[viaVideogum]