Actor Ben Stiller and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer are teaming up to work on an HBO comedy TV series called “All Talk,” which will feature a Jewish family living in Washington, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stiller has signed on to star, direct and executive produce. Foer wrote the script for the pilot, which may have been inspired by his own life. He’s Jewish and from Washington. His mother, Esther Safran Foer, is the director of the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, and his older brother, Franklin Foer, formerly headed D.C.-based magazine, the New Republic.
“The West Wing’s”Alan Alda is being courted to join the cast as well.
And while HBO has been Washington-friendly with its productions of “Veep” and “Game Change,” we’re told that filming in D.C. will be minimal. “The bulk of the filming will not be shot in D.C., but we may get a few days out of it,” explained Leslie Green of the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development. While folks from “All Talk’ expressed interest in filming on location in D.C., that interest was contingent on the D.C. government offering incentives, which it could not, Green explained.
The pilot is scheduled to shoot this fall.
(h/t DCist)
