'The Invite': Amy Adams, Paul Rudd & Tessa Thompson Team Up For Upcoming Sex Comedy

While Amy Adams fans await her next role in Marielle Heller‘s “Night Bitch,” in post-production now, another upcoming film for the actress emerges. Deadline reports that Adams will team up with Paul Rudd and Tessa Thompson for “The Invite,” a comedy based on Cesc Gay‘s Goya Award-winning 2020 Spanish film “Sentimental.” The project has a solid comedic directing team, too: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the duo behind “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Battle Of The Sexes.”

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So what’s the plot of “The Invite”? Adams and Rudd will play Angela and Joe, a married couple stuck in a rut after fifteen years of marriage. In a bid to snap them out of it, Adams invites Thompson’s Kayla and her husband Shane, their loud and brazen neighbors, over for cocktails. Joe sees the cocktail hour as an opportunity to confront his neighbors about their behavior, but Kayla and Shane have their own plans: they host weekly orgies in the neighborhood, and they want to see if Joe and Angela have any interest in joining.

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack pen the script for “The Invite,” working together after “Celeste & Jesse Forever;” Jones starred in that film with Andy Samberg. Jones and McCormack also worked together on the story of “Toy Story 4.”  FilmNation Entertainment and Permut Presentations serves as central producers on the comedy, with David Permut leading the way. FilmNation will have “The Invite” for sale internationally at the Cannes market later this month, with UTA Independent Film Group helping out with its U.S. sale.

Faris & Dayton work with Rudd again on “The Invite” after collaborating on the Netflix series “Living With Yourself.” Other recent directing work for the pair includes the highly regarded Hulu limited series “Fleischman Is In Trouble” with Jesse Eisenberg.  

“The Invite” marks a bit of pivot for Adams as an actress: one usually doesn’t equate a six-time Academy Award nominee with sex comedies. Beyond “Night Btich,” Adams will also star in Adam McKay‘s upcoming serial killer politician dramedy “Average Height, Average Build.” She also starred in the Disney sequel “Disenchanted” last year.

As for Rudd, he’s fresh of his third “Ant-Man” film, “Quantumania,” and stars opposite Will Ferrell in the Apple TV+ series “The Shrink Next Door.” Up next, he has the “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” sequel, currently in production. Rudd also joins the Season 3 cast of Hulu’s popular “Only Murders In The Building.”

That leaves Thompson, who just had a supporting role in Michael B. Jordan‘s “Creed III.” The actress has a bunch of HBO projects lined up next: “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” at HBO Max and HBO’s adaptations of the books “Luster” and “Who Fears Death.”

Are movie audiences ready for Adams, Rudd, and Thompson in a comedy about middle-aged orgies? We’ll soon find out. Expect “The Invite” to hit theaters sometime in 2024.