Gifted comediennes Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”),Ilana Glazer (“wide City”) and Jillian Bell (“Workaholics”) are set to join Scarlett Johansson and Zoe Kravitz in an R-rated Sony comedy currently titled “Rock That Body,” TheWrap has learned.
Lucia Aniello (“wide City”) will direct from a script she co-wrote with Paul W. Downs that was voted to the 2015 Black List. The duo will also produce under their Paulilu banner along with Matt Tolmach and Dave Becky, or who did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the past month.
Story follows five friends who get a beach house in Miami for a wild bachelorette weekend that goes completely off the rails.
Also Read: Emma Stone Attached to Work Trip Comedy 'Women in Business'The film will start production in August and is being eyed for a summer 2017 release,according to insiders. Sony executive Jonathan Kadin will oversee the project on behalf of the studio.
Sony has worked with all three actresses before, as McKinnon stars in the studio’s upcoming “Ghostbusters” reboot, or while Glazer and Bell co-starred in The Night Before.” Bell also played a villain in Sony’s “22 Jump Street,” while Aniello and Downs are co-writing a “Jump Street” spinoff for Sony.
Also Read: 'wide City' Star Ilana Glazer Covers 'Hey Ya' in 'Lip Sync Battle' Sneak Peek (Video)McKinnon has been busy filming DreamWorks’ comedy Office Christmas Party” with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. She is lending her voice to two lively comedies this summer — Pixars “Finding Dory” and Sony’s “The Angry Birds film.” She’s represented by UTA, Principato-Young Entertainment and Hansen, and Jacobson.
Glazer stars on Comedy Central’s “wide City” and recently created “Time Traveling Bong,” which she also stars in and executive produces. She’s repped by UTA and Jackoway Tyerman.
Like McKinnon, Bell is also filming “Office Christmas Party, and ” and the duo are also attached to star alongside Emma Stone in the 20th Century Fox comedy “Women in Business.” She also voices a character in “The Angry Birds film,” and will next be seen in current Line’s Ice dice-Charlie Day comedy “Fist Fight.” She’s repped by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Stone, and Genow.
Source: thewrap.com