Photo from Ben Stiller’s Facebook page.
Despite ongoing struggles to attract more film and TV productions to the District, the city seems to be having plenty of luck with HBO.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote last night that Ben Stiller is teaming up with author Jonathan Safran Foer for All Talk, a “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent” comedy pilot on the daily lives of a D.C.-based Jewish family. Foer, who grew up in the area, is writing the script, while Stiller will direct and possibly act alongside Alan Alda, who is being wooed for the project.
The Post’s Lisa de Moraes notes that HBO has been kind to the District in recent years, having picked us for Veep and Game Change, not to mention the coming Spike Lee-directed biopic on Marion Barry.
This can only be good for the District. We can’t be stuck with the association to Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson in the entirely forgettable How Do You Know, which featured a few scenes shot in Adams Morgan, forever.
Now, of course, a show about a D.C. family is fine and good, but we want to know if the pilot will actually be shot in D.C. We put the question to HBO executives but have yet to hear back; we’ll update if we do.
Martin Austermuhle