Netflix is staying in the Jason Bateman business. Bateman, familiar with the streamer from Ozark and Black Rabbit, will direct The Cackling of the Dodos, a new comedy that will star Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.
The news was announced yesterday (via Deadline) at a Netflix press event. Based on an original story by author Rye Curtis, The Cackling of the Dodos “follows George, small-town farmer who has a truly terrible day when he discovers a corpse chilling out in a grain bin and he is unwittingly forced into a chaotic, sloppy cover-up by his boss, Denny.”
The film is a reunion of Rockwell and Harrelson. Rockwell won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, while Harrelson was nominated in the same category for the same film.
This will be the third feature directed by Bateman, who kicked off this part of his career with 2013’s hilarious Bad Words. That was followed a couple of years later by The Family Fang.
