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FREAKS AND GEEKS Vets Apatow & Feig Reteaming For Kristen Wiig Movie!!

Published at: Feb. 16, 2010, 9:35 p.m. CST

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SNL star Kristen Wiig has co-written a screenplay for a movie once called “Bridesmaids,” and the Universal project has reunited “Freaks and Geeks” masterminds Judd Apatow, who will produce the project, and Paul Feig, who will direct. According to Variety:
… it is described as revolving around women competing to plan a friend's wedding party.
Apatow’s post-"Geeks" big-screen work includes writing and directing the hilarious “40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and “Funny People,” and producing “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights,” “Step Brothers,” “Superbad,” “Walk Hard,” “Pineapple Express” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Feig’s post-“Geeks” big-screen career has been less distinguished; his feature directorial credits include “I Am David” (I haven’t seen it, but it snags a 38 on Rotten Tomatoes) and the completely awful “Unaccompanied Minors” (which did not do as well as “David” on the Tomatometer). On the upside, Feig has directed episodes of an extraordinary number of great TV series, including “Geeks,” “The Office,” “Mad Men,” “Weeds,” “Arrested Development,” “Parks and Recreation,” and Apatow’s “Undeclared.” “Bridesmaids” will mark the first time Wiig has played the central role in a major motion picture. Her supporting turns have graced “Minors,” “Sarah Marshall,” “Walk Hard” and “Knocked Up.” Find Variety’s story on the matter here.

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