Jennifer Garner has revealed to EW that her butter-carving-comedy aptly titled “Butter” is on the verge of going into production but has unfortunately failed to attract director Craig Gillespie.
Gillespie was originally reported as circling the project early in its development but its now been confirmed that Brit Jim Field Smith, who most recently directed “She’s Out Of My League,” will instead helm rookie Jason Micallef’s 2008 Black Listed script. The film centers on an adopted girl who learns of her uncanny talent to carve butter and finds herself dueling with the reigning annual butter-sculpting contest champion of her Midwestern hometown.
“We are just about to get greenlit,” Garner revealed. “So I will be diving into butter and learning how to fake it. I am sure we will have to hire professionals to make the final products but I’m looking forward to picking up some new skills. Maybe they will come in handy during a family holiday.”
Our interest in this film has now admittedly fallen with Gillespie’s departure but if it means the helmer is a step closer to his reunion with Ryan Gosling on the HIV-drug drama “Dallas Buyers Club,” it might be a necessary evil. Gillespie also evidently has an unknown project called “Pandora” in development and has probably directed at least a few episodes of Showtime’s upcoming season of the Diablo Cody scribed multiple-personality-disorder dramedy “The United States Of Tara.”
Either way, after his strong showing in “Lars And The Real Girl,” the sooner he gets behind the camera for a film the better.
What gives you the optimism that Gosling and Gillespie will be teaming up for the AIDS flick? I thought that project kinda fizzled. Not being snarky, just trying to see if I have legitimate reason to be optimistic, too.