17 directors on one movie?

Filed under: Entertainment, Sympatico — D.I.S.H. @ 11:57 am on March 12, 2010

17 directors have teamed up for a sketch comedy film. Count ‘em: 17. So far, maybe give or take a few.

Deadline Hollywood reports that Relativity Media has signed on to finance an as-yet-untitled project in the style of 1970s sketch comedy flicks Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube. The final number of directors is actually still to be determined but each one will be shooting segments on the fly, later to be cobbled together into a funny feature.

Directors that have already shot sketches include Pete Farrelly, Brett Ratner, Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk, and Griffin Dunne. And the actors involved have included Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Banks, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Matt Walsh, Tony Shalhoub, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kieran Culkin, Chloe Moretz and Patrick Warburton. Shooting will wrap in May.

Charles Wessler and Pete Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary) are producing.

Like Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube, the film will have an R Rating. It has been in the development stages for a while, apparently, and Deadine says Wessler tried to place it at Paramount but it was killed after the production head was visited by Tipper Gore, and decided it didn’t fit the family-film mode.