Will Ferrell to star in Everything Must Go

Posted on October 20, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Directors, News

It’s been a while since I posted about the brilliant comedian Will Ferrell. With his strong ties to Sweden we love him a little bit extra here at Moviemind News. Recently Variety posted about his latest project and it’s my duty as a blogger to inform you, me dear readers, what Will is up to.  Apparently he’s starring in a movie titled “Everything Must Go,” an independently financed film that marks the feature directorial debut of director Dan Rush.

The film will cost under $10 million, a decided departure from Ferrell’s recent big-ticket studio comedies “Land of the Lost” and “The Other Guys.” Rush wrote the script, based on a Raymond Carver short story. Ferrell will play a guy who loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.

Rush is known for directing commercials with a humorous bent, and while he has been offered movie development deals, he turned them down and instead tried to write a film for himself to direct. “Everything Must Go,” his first screenplay, was featured on the Black List, and it got him meetings with numerous leading men who liked the script. Ferrell was impressed by his meetings with Rush and signed on for a project that will be funded with private equity and presales.

“Will is one of the best at making an audience sympathize with a character’s ordeal, and the blending and comedy in this script will show a side of him that we haven’t really seen before,” producer Marty Bowen said.

Production will start in March.

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