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EXCLUSIVE: Curb Your Enthusiasm alum Jeff Schaffer is set to direct Blow Up the Chat, a new comedy in development at Warner Bros and Temple Hill, sources tell Deadline.
Scripted by Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo, the film watches as a group of best’ friends private and wildly inappropriate, year-long group chat is hacked, which risks upending their individual lives and friendship with one another.
Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and Isaac Klausner will produce for Temple Hill, with Zach Hamby overseeing the project for Warner Bros.
A nine-time Emmy nominee perhaps best known for showrunning, exec producing and directing HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, which just came to an end after 12 seasons, Schaffer also co-created FX’s acclaimed Lil Dicky comedy Dave, as well as FX’s The League, which ran for seven seasons. In film, Schaffer has directed the DreamWorks sex comedy EuroTrip, also contributing to the writing of Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator and Brüno, and more.
Coming off of box office success with Paramount’s Smile 2, which has grossed over $132M worldwide, Temple Hill’s upcoming slate includes Lasse Hallström’s Amazon MGM romantic drama The Map That Leads to You, starring Madelyn Cline and KJ Apa, Netflix’s adaptation of the Julia Whelan novel My Oxford Year, and Netflix/3000 Pictures’ People We Meet on Vacation, among other projects.
Over the last week, Warner Bros has continued adding to the casts of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights and a mystery movie from J.J. Abrams, also announcing development on a new Aaron Sorkin project and a new take on 1956’s sci-fi pic Forbidden Planet.
Schaffer is represented by UTA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Vernon and Randazzo are repped by CAA and 3 Arts Entertainment.
