Ben Stiller is returning to the sports activities world for his subsequent mission, a pickleball film titled The Dink.
Jake Johnson, Mary Steeburgen, and Ed Harris are set to star within the three way partnership from Stiller’s Crimson Hour Movies and Rivulet Movies, with tennis star Andy Roddick and Stiller in supporting roles. Josh Greenbaum, who’s engaged on the upcoming Spaceballs sequel, is about to direct the mission.
The Dink follows “a washed-up tennis professional (Johnson) who, in making an attempt to save lots of a membership in disaster and win his father’s respect, is compelled to interrupt a solemn vow and do the one factor he swore he’d by no means do: play pickleball.”
This yr, pickleball was named the fastest-growing sport in America for the third consecutive yr, and an estimated 36 million folks have picked up the sport as its reputation has continued to develop. The film is scheduled to start capturing in Los Angeles in November
Stiller is within the last phases of post-production for the second season of Severance, which is about to lastly return to Apple TV+ in January 2025. Revisit our roundup of his finest roles.
Since his breakout position as Nick Miller in New Lady, Jake Johnson has been spending extra time within the movie world, with latest tasks together with the Into the Spider-Verse sequence and his directorial debut, Self Reliance.
