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From ComingSoon.Net (Original Source: Variety)


- 20th Century Fox has acquired Hall Pass a spec script by Pete Jones, reports Variety. Conundrum's Peter and Bobby Farrelly and Bradley Thomas will produce the film, which could shape up as a directing vehicle for the brothers behind There's Something About Mary.

Jones, best known as the subject of the first "Project Greenlight" with his movie Stolen Summer, has written a relationship comedy in which a married couple find themselves going through the motions.

The wife gives her husband a "hall pass," which means permission to engage in extracurriculars. Complications ensue.


LINK: http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=11249

[elephant1978]

In regards to me previously calling Efram and Kyle two of the biggest douchebags in the biz...I now take that back.

Ele...

[santino2699]

You know you're in good hands when the Farrelly brothers are in charge of your comedy.

Good for him. Hopefully the film is so powerful it convinces my wife to give me a "hall pass".

Santino

[MacG]

Bummer. I thought Pete Jones was nothing more than a cautionary tale in Hollywood....

[Optimus]

If they'd said that "hyjinx ensue," or "hilarity ensues," then I might go see it.

But, I don't see movies if only "complications ensue."

That's boring.

[The White Album]

In regards to me previously calling Efram and Kyle two of the biggest douchebags in the biz...I now take that back.

Ele...

You serious? At least Pete Jones seemed like a naive and dim-witted nice guy who got in over his head with this business, while Efram and Kyle were arrogant pricks who thought they knew everything.

Also, Pete Jones' agent never dropped him. Efram and Kyle lost their agent very quickly.

But this is not a surprising turn of events. People always believed Pete Jones was a better writer than director. The opposite can be said of Efram and Kyle, and unfortunately for them, when you're in "director's jail," your get out card is to write a great script and set it up.

[Ire]

I like the idea of a hall pass, but unless they're keeping the rest of the story under wraps, that is a weak logline, if a logline at all. I'm guessing it was well-pitched or well-written well-agented or some combo of the above since that is one weak logline.

BTW, though, the hall passes I used to buy never got me out of trouble with the principals of schools I attended. Somehow I get the feeling they were bogus.

[Bad Liver]

Fantastic idea for a comedy. Endless possibilities. Good for him.

[blackrooster]

I never really minded Pete. He came off much better in his blogs (or bylines) than he ever did on TV. I used to scream at him while watching the show, but then I'd read his byline on PGL's website and he would pretty much make up for all his blunders.

He said at one point the he wasn't a good enough writer to write something he doesn't know about (his words, but paraphrased). So I wonder if his wife gave him a hall pass.

BTW, I just watched a movie with Jay Mohr called Seeing Other People. VERY similar concept, except that two people who are engaged agree to see other people to spice up their love lives. Some of it was pretty funny, like the young cutie who arranged a threesome only to have the third girl want to shove a dildo up his a** ... then took him to the "inner city" to buy some crack ... and then stole his car, crashed it, and got arrested.