Actor and sometimes director Tim Blake Nelson has joined the cast of Rob Minkoff’s bank heist comedy “Flypaper,” which is based on a script by “The Hangover” scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
Nelson will play a character named Peanut Butter, a member of a team of “inseparable and stupid” criminals who are one of two different groups of crooks attempting to rob a bank at the same time. Both teams, however, find themselves under attack by a secret enemy — played by Patrick Dempsey — who is looking to save the bank teller he loves.
Sounds like another riotous, ensemble comedy, but under the helm of a lesser director than Todd Phillips, will the film resonate as well with audiences as Lucas and Moore’s work in the “The Hangover”? Probably not, despite how much Minkoff’s “The Lion King” shaped our childhood (“Stuart Little,” and its unnecessary sequel not so much).
Dempsey, Peter Safran, Mark Damon, Joannie Burstein and Tamara Stuparich de la Barra are producing with shooting to begin in Louisana next month. Original plans had it set to begin June 7 but with only two cast members in place for now, it seems unlikely to roll that quickly.
