Jonathan Krisel Set to Direct EVERYDAY PARENTING TIPS With Lord & Miller/Maximum Effort Producing; Travis Braun Adapting
Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez from The New Yorker
Emmy nominee Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia) has signed on to direct Universal’s feature take of the Simon Rich New Yorker short story Everyday Parenting Tips. Rich did the first pass, and now Travis Braun (Vampirina, Monsters at Work) is adapting.
The project is being produced by Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood, who have a first look at Uni, as well as Maximum Effort Productions’ Ryan Reynolds and George Dewey. Ryan Reynolds is still looking to possibly star in the film, which is described as a four-quadrant family film.
In Rich’s essay, a father offers advice on what to say when their child says they believe a monster lurks under the bed — that is at a time when an ongoing Monster Uprising is actually occurring on the globe.
The creature pandemic has unleashed the likes of Gorgog the Annihilator, Ctharga the Eater of Souls and a “giant, swirling portal in the sky that looks like a screaming mouth” that is simply called Drain of Ga.
Stay tuned for updates on the project as it heads toward production.
via: Deadline