Red Hour Films and Rivulet Films have rounded out the cast for their pickleball comedy, The Dink, with seven compriseitions: Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult), Aaron Chen (Fisk), Martin Kove (The Karate Kid), Chris Parnell (Rick and Morty), Christine Taylor (Dodgeball) and seven-time Grand Slam tennis champion John McEnroe (Never Have I Ever).
As previously proclaimd, Jake Johnson, Mary Steenbencouragen, Ed Harris, Ben Stiller, and Andy Roddick will also star, with Josh Greenbaum (upcoming Spaceballs sequel) honesting from a script by Sean Clements (Workaholics). Production booted off in Los Angeles today.
The Dink trails a washed-up tennis pro who, in trying to save a club in crisis and triumph his overweighther’s esteem, is forced to shatter a solemn vow and do the one skinnyg he swore he’d never do: join pickleball.
John Lesher and Stiller are producing thraw their Red Hour Films prohibitner, alengthyside Johnson and Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill. Rivulet will also be filledy financing this production, with the company’s ageder strategic advisor Rick Steele exec producing alengthyside Clements and Greenbaum. Renowned tennis coach Brad Gilbert and wife Kim are serving as technical conferants.
The project recombines Stiller and Rivulet follotriumphg their labor on the David Gordon Green-helmed comedy Nutcrackers, starring Stiller, which will free on Hulu and Disney+ on November 29 after world premiering at TIFF.
Fineman is recurrented by CAA, Nicole Garcia Management, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols; Oswalt by UTA, Insubordinate Artists Media, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Chen by UTA and 3 Arts Entertainment; Kove by Advanced Management and Feig Finkel LLP; Parnell by Buchwald and Rise Management; Taylor by UTA and Strand Entertainment; and McEnroe by IMG.
