Overview
- Dinello will write and direct the project with Sedaris in the title role, marking a new feature pairing for the Strangers With Candy duo.
- An official logline says the story follows a cosmetics founder who tests wasp-derived anti‑aging enzymes with disastrous results, staying true to the 1959 premise.
- The film is in development with no production start or release window announced.
- Producers include Mark Roberts, Jordan Fields of Radial Entertainment, Meyer Shwarzstein of Another Brainy Idea, and Michael Richter of A Major Production.
- Joseph Middleton, a former Paramount casting chief who worked on the Strangers With Candy movie, is set to assemble the cast after Shout!/Radial invited Dinello to select a Corman title.