Dinello heats up ‘Burnout’

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Paul Dinello (Strangers With Candy) has signed on to direct Mr. Burnout from a screenplay by Eric Gravning. Nala Films’ Emilio Diez Barroso and Darlene Caamano Loquet will produce.

Mr. Burnout is the story of an English teacher who turns into a cynical curmudgeon after ten years of teaching. He takes a bet, wagered by a female colleague that he’ll try to romance, that he can get three of his worst students into the Ivy League. Shooting is scheduled to kick off in January 2007.

This will be Dinello’s first film since he hit Sundance in 2005 with the feature-length addition of the Comedy Central semi-hit “Strangers With Candy,” which he created alongside current Comedy Central star and the neo-Steve Carell, Steven Colbert. Dinello also serves as “consultant” on The Colbert Report, and appears frequently in the role of Tad. Dinello is the latest in a line of directors to jump on the coattails of their funnier friends, in the wake of the Adam McKay-Will Ferrell duo.