50/50 is arguably the best film that Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and director Jonathan Levine have made (both individually and collectively), and they’ll be re-teaming to make a Christmas comedy.
Deadline has the report that Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen will join a Christmas comedy from their 50/50 director Jonathan Levine.
Currently not too much is known about what the Christmas comedy would entail. The script from Levine follows three childhood friends who reunite one Christmas Eve in New York City as they had traditionally done in their youth. Gordon-Levitt and Rogen will obviously play two of the three, but the third has not been cast as of yet.
While it’s probable that the re-teaming will end with Gordon-Levitt, Rogen, and Levine, it would certainly be interesting to see the third friend be played by the other 50/50 lead Anna Kendrick. It’s not known whether the third friend is male or female. Gordon-Levitt, Rogen, and Kendrick proved that they all have great chemistry with each other, and having a woman in the mix would probably work very well. However, it’s probably more likely that the third will be another male.
Levine’s most recent film, Warm Bodies, came out in 2013, and it proved that the writer/director can make anything work, even a zombie romantic comedy. The list of directors capable of making the tired genre of friends re-meeting over the holidays interesting is a short one, but Levine appears to be on that short list.
In November it was rumored that Bad Romance, another future film of Levine’s, might be picking up Channing Tatum. That has still not been officially confirmed nor denied.
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