Big Mouth has been in the works for over a year and it looks like it all paid off. Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg's (Family Guy) series about prepubescent preteens dropping the pre-prefix isn't for the kids it's portraying. The script is very dark -- see the trailer for little boy butt and little girl talking vaginas. But it looks nice. The cast is one of the best on the service with Kroll being joined by Jordan Peele, Jason Mantzoukas, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Jenny Slate, and Jessi Klein. Big Mouth premieres on Friday, September 29th.
Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell are paying tuition with "The House" this summer
Summer comedy season is a hit or miss period that can pop out some gems once in a while. Last year's Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping was a good example that no one saw. 22 Jump Street was in the same role two years prior. This year will have a few more will join the club including reboot Baywatch. And that movie will have the company of The House.
Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler star as two parents who can't pay for their daughter's college tuition. That's when Jason Mantzoukas's character suggests they open a casino in their home. Other cast members include Nick Kroll, Lennon Parham, Cedric Yarbrough, Rory Scovel, and Rob Huebel among others. Frequent Zac Efron collaborators Brendan O’Brien and Andrew J. Cohen wrote the script and Cohen directed.
Nick Kroll will have his very own cartoon series on Netflix
The Netflix train continues to roll as they add another big time comedian with a show to their bulbous slate of comedian based shows. The streaming platform has greenlit Big Mouth from Kroll Show's title character/creator Nick Kroll. Variety says the show will be a 30 minute "edgy, surreal animated comedy," which describes most of what Kroll usually does. It follows teenagers, Nick and Andrew (Kroll's irl bff and Family Guy writer/producer Andrew Goldberg) who are on the cusp of puberty. John Mulaney is said to actually voice the character of Andrew however. Of course, other comedians are joining the voice cast including Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate and Jessi Klein. Big Mouth will scream its first ten episodes on Netflix in 2017.
Heynong Man! Jason Mantzoukas to write a movie, not based on Talkin' 'Tang exploits
Podcaster and female body inspector Jason Mantzoukas is set to write his first feature. Dubbed Battling Boy, the film is based on the popular graphic novel from Paul Pope. Deadline is saying that the movie hails from Paramount with Plan B producing. Director Patrick Osborne, who animated movies like Wreck It Ralph and the upcoming Zootopia and directed the Academy Award winning short film Feast, is on board too for his feature debut. For those unfamiliar, Battling Boy is set in Arcopolis where "monsters roam the streets and swallow children into the underworld."It follows a 12-year-old demi-god and the daughter of a hero who died tragically in battle.