Jonah Hill to make directorial debut
Jonah Hill is set to make his directorial debut with a coming-of-age dramedy.
The Moneyball star will step behind the camera for the first time in a film titled Mid-90s, which he also wrote.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie follows a group of
teens in California who are navigating their way through high
school amidst peer pressure, drugs, sex, and drinking, while making
bad choices along the way.
While this is Hill's first foray into directing, he previously
co-wrote 21 Jump Street and created animated TV series Allen
Gregory.
He is not expected to star in the film.
Hill has many exciting projects on the go at this time, as it was
recently reported he will be reuniting with his Superbad co-star
Emma Stone in a TV remake of Norwegian comedy series Maniac.
The story, based on the dark comedy which originally aired in
Europe in 2014, revolves around a mental patient in a psychiatric
ward, who believes he is living in a made-believe fantasy
world.
Stone and Hill, who will portray patients at the hospital, are also
producing the project with Cary Fukunaga, who serves as the
director for Maniac.
In addition to more television projects, Hill has many other acting
gigs in forthcoming feature films. He will next be seen starring
opposite Miles Teller and Bradley Cooper in political dramedy War
Dogs and he has also lent his voice to Seth Rogen's highly
anticipated animated movie Sausage Party. Both movies will reach
theaters in August (16).