For those who don’t know him, Alain Chabat has had a lengthy career in France as an actor, producer and writer who mostly works in comedy, and I believe it was a little bit after the promotional tour in the U.S. for The Sciene of Sleep where he might have decided to test out the waters on this side of the Atlantic.
Fittingly, Chabat is attached to a comedy called The Dubber – which would let him work in both French and in broken English. Focus Features have attached themselves to a buddy comedy that enters on a man who provides the French dubbing voice for a top Hollywood star. When the A-lister has an on-set meltdown and goes missing, the dubber travels to the U.S. to help find him. I could easily see him paired with Robin Williams in this one.
The Dubber is developed by an army of people, the original idea comes from the brainchild of Richard Raddon and Marina Zenovich (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired) who then in turn handed over the script to David Gilcreast and Jay Chandrasekhar to polish off the first draft and then, the Duplass brothers (Mark and Jay) completed a final draft.
Funded by Chabat’s L.A.-based WAM Films, he will produce along with Stephanie Danan. Chabat recently produced Thomas Balmes’ Baby(ies) a docu that Focus Features recently picked up.
