After helming each episode of 4 of “Higher Issues’” five-season run, Pamela Adlon is about to make her characteristic directorial debut. The Emmy and Peabody-winning multi-hyphenate is stepping behind the digicam for a being pregnant comedy starring “Broad Metropolis” alumna Ilana Glazer. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the information.
Glazer, who not too long ago starred in and co-wrote “False Constructive,” one other pregnancy-inspired pic, penned the script with Josh Rabinowitz. The untitled comedy sees the “Tough Night time” actress enjoying Eden, “an aggressively single girl who, after getting pregnant from a one-night stand, leans on her married greatest pal and mom of two to information her by way of gestation and past.” Michelle Buteau (“First Wives Membership”) co-stars.
The FilmNation Leisure and Vary Media Companions undertaking counts Glazer amongst its producers.
“As followers of the traditional laborious comedies we grew up on, and as moms of younger children, we’re thrilled to be making the film we’ve been ready for,” mentioned FilmNation’s Ashley Fox and Vary’s Susie Fox in a joint assertion. “This film will tug at your heartstrings however, solely after it makes you pee-laugh in public.”
Adlon co-created “Higher Issues,” her critically acclaimed FX comedy about an actress and single mother elevating three daughters. She wrote, directed, exec produced, and starred within the present, which concluded in April. Her different on-screen credit embody “The King of Staten Island” and “Californication.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood