Geoff La Tulippe, screenwriter of Going the Distance, has struck a deal to direct a feature film. Not much is known about the film so far, just that he's writing the script from his own pitch and it will apparently be "ensemble based." Oh, and Paramount are the studio, for what that matters to us.

But beyond that? Zilch.

Whatever happens, I'll always love the film anyhow because of how Deadline announced it. After they're done taking credit for the deal in the headline (really - "Another Deadline-Hatched Career: WME Spoof Helmer Geoff LaTulippe Gets Par Deal") they throw out the crumbs of detail that I shared above, and then... get back to taking credit for the deal.

Apparently, La Tulippe has seen his star rocket into the sky because Deadline featured his short film Yom Kippur at WME. Just that. The fact that the film was already moving virally around Hollywood before they posted it is irrelevant; so is the fact that La Tulippe made it for, and premiered it at, a WME retreat.

Here's the commentary that Nikki Finke published with the video the first time around:
I don?t know what to think about this: actor/writer/comedian JB Smoove (Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm and Trucky in Pootie Tang) shows up at his Hollywood agency on Yom Kippur to find it empty. ?So he decides to RUN shit??

Your reaction?

She went for the hard sell, as you can see, and really earned that ten percent.

Enough. Let's just watch the film. It makes it all worthwhile.

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