He has stripped away his beard and with no more wingmen or creative influences (Bob Dylan, Bill Maher and Sacha Baron Cohen) in the way, Larry Charles will have a chance to spread his wings. Columbia Pictures have set the director on an About Schmidt-like project that hopefully will avoid bringing up butt-end jokes about the powerful blue pill.
With Winter’s Discontent, Charles takes on a top-rated Blacklist project (7th vote getter from 2008’s list) that centers on Herb Winter, whose wife dies after 50 years of marriage, prompting the long-faithful but sexually frustrated widower to move into a retirement community with his best buddy so the two can start living the swinging single life. I wonder what the shortlist is for the lead male roles?
