By Jack Linshi
Golden Globe winner Laura Dern and Girls producer Judd Apatow will join forces to produce a comedy centered around obsessive female football fans, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The unnamed project, produced for Universal Pictures by Apatow’s production company, has also enlisted South Park writer Pam Brady to write the screenplay and Bridesmaids producer Barry Mendel. Eric Baiers, Universal’s senior vice president of production, will oversee the project.
Plot details have not yet been released.
[THR]
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