By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Judd Apatow has roped in a number of actors, together with Pedro Pascal, Karen Gillan and Maria Bakalova, for pandemic-inspired comedy film set at streaming platform Netflix.
Also becoming a member of the solid of the film are Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key and Peter Serafinowicz.
Apatow’s spouse, actor Leslie Mann, and daughter Iris Apatow can even function within the film, in line with The Hollywood Reporter.
The untitled meta-comedy, which Apatow will direct from a script Pam Brady, will revolve round a bunch of actors and actresses caught inside a pandemic bubble at a resort trying to complete a movie.
The filmmaker can even produce the undertaking by means of his Apatow Productions banner, with longtime collaborator Barry Mendel serving as govt producer.
Apatow is greatest identified for helming movies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”, “Knocked Up”, “Funny People”, “Trainwreck” and “The King of Staten Island”.
He has beforehand labored with Netflix on dramedy sequence “Love”, which he co-created, and a 2017 stand-up particular “The Return”.