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Chris Rock To Direct ‘Another Round’ Remake For Appian Way, Makeready & Fifth Season
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Rock has made a deal to develop to direct Another Round, based on the 2020 Thomas Vinterberg-directed black comedy that won the Oscar for Best International Film as well as the BAF…
Rock has made directing a priority, and adds this to a Universal-based adaptation of King: A Life, the Jonathan Eig book about Martin Luther King Jr., along with an untitled script Rock is writing that has Peter Rice producing. Rock stamped himself as a director with chops with Top Five, which he also wrote and which became the biggest deal at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival where Paramount Pictures bought world rights. Scripted by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm, Another Round starred Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe playing four high school teachers who conduct an experiment to maintain a constant level of inebriation throughout their workday.
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