Julie Bowen, one of the cast members of the Emmy-nominated ABC family comedy, “Modern Family” looks like she’s going to be making some inroads in the world of film having signed up for two new movies.
The first cast she’s joined is that of Seth Gordon’s office place comedy, “Horrible Bosses” which boasts the already impressive cast of Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, SNL’s Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. Bowen will play the wife of Spacey’s horrible boss character.
The black comedy centers on three best friends (Bateman, Sudeikis, Day) who, fed up with abuse from their employers, enlist the help of a scam artist called Motherfucker Jones (Jamie Foxx) to help murder them.
While this writer hasn’t read the script by Jonathan Goldstein and ex-“Freaks and Geeks” star John Francis Daley Playlist members who have parsed it have raved. Gordon directed the excellent documentary “The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” and then used the film’s success as a calling card to parlay a career in directing feature-length comedies. He’s been offered and been attached to countless gigs (“Mr. Romance,” “Celeste And Jesse Forever,” “Suicide Squad“, and a feature-length version of his ‘Kong’ doc), but stumbled out of the gate with his first narrative comedy, “Four Christmases” — a film that the two leads Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn apparently butted heads during throughout. Gordon seems acutely talented, so we’re hoping ‘Bosses’ is major redemption and its already high on our list of 2011’s most anticipated films.
Bowen’s second project is “Jumping the Broom,” a film about two African-American families from divergent backgrounds that come together. She’ll play a “high-strung wedding planner with a long list of chores.” It’s directed by Salim Akil (TV’s “Soul Food”) and co-stars Paula Patton, Angela Bassett, Mike Epps, Lil’ Romeo and more. “Horrible Bosses” will start production any day now if it hasn’t already so ‘Jumping” will come next.