Ron Livingston is the beating heart of Mike Judge’s Office Space, a movie that has transcended cult status and is pretty much one of the finest comedies to be released in the 1990s. He’s also pretty notable for the role of Captain Lewis Nixon in Band of Brothers on HBO.
Now, he’ll be joining director Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents) for his new film Dinner for Schmucks.
According to Variety, the film “is an adaptation of the Francis Veber-helmed French film Le dinner de cons, in which a group of bourgeois friends regularly invite the biggest schmucks to dinner to ridicule them.”
The cast that’s shaping up for this film is phenomenal. It’ll be headed up by I Love You, Man’s Paul Rudd and The Office’s Steve Carell, who of course acted together in The 40-Year-Old-Virgin. They’ll be joined by Zach Galifianakis and Star Trek’s Bruce Greenwood.
The script is being worked on by a handful of folks, including Andy Borowitz, who did uncredited work on the original French comedy, as well as Ken Daurio and The Simpsons alum Jon Vitti.
Roach is also gearing up to produce a second sequel to Meet the Parents, entitled Little Fockers, as well as possibly directing Austin Powers 4.
