Will Arnett will produce and star in Space Invader for the fledgling young-adult-friendly Fox Atomic company. The story is being kept somewhat under wraps, but it is known to involve an astronaut love triangle. Writers Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger began work on the screenplay months before the recent crazy-diaper-stalker-bitch story that swept through America last week, but it must have still been quite a coup for the project, which went through a brief bidding war on Monday before landing on six figures.
Reger and Lisbe have a healthy decade of TV writing experience behind them, working on Just Shoot Me, Norm Macdonald's A Minute with Stan Hooper, and the vastly underseen comic gem Manhattan, AZ. Variety mentions that they also have two features, The Wrong Nine Year Old and Little Orphan Anthony, but a little digging shows that the former, about a man whose life is suddenly intruded on by a slighted fourth grade classmate, was sold in 2002 and doesn't appear to have moved forward since, while the latter, about a couple who mistakenly adopts the world's oldest orphan, as played by Anthony Anderson, seems to be only one year younger and just as dead.
Arnett has a lot of projects of questionable existence of his own, including The Ambassador, Jeff the Demon, Get 'Em Wet, Dad Can't Lose, and Most Likely to Succeed, but he will definitely be appearing in The Brothers Solomon, Blades of Glory, Spring Breakdown, Semi-Pro, Hot Rod, and On Broadway. And we're getting tired of posting that massive list every time he signs on to something else, which is every couple of days.
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