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Kathryn Hahn and Allison Janney Join Jason Bateman's Spelling Bee Comedy

by | November 5th, 2012

Jason Bateman is about to start directing his first movie, and he just added a ton of people to the cast. We reported previously that Bateman will direct and star in Bad Words, in which he'll play an adult high school drop-out entering a children's spelling bee. According to Deadline, Allison Janney, Kathryn Hahn, Phillip Baker Hall, Ben Falcone (Melissa McCarthy's real-life husband), and kid actor Rohan Chandz have all joined the cast. Janney and Hall will portray angry leaders of the spelling bee group and Chandz will play a a nerdy spelling bee competitor who Bateman befriends and probably teaches to believe in himself or something [...]

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Jason Bateman in Talks to Act, Spell, and Make His Directorial Debut

by | July 11th, 2012

Jason Bateman is in talks to direct and star in the indie comedy Bad Words, a film about a Jason Bateman-aged fellow who enters into a children's spelling bee and befriends a young Indian contestant and a female reporter. This would be Bateman's first film in the director's chair. He did, however, direct the "Afternoon Delight" episode of Arrested Development and the episode of Family Matters in which Steve invents a fat compressing machine to help his Aunt Oona impress a hunky reverend. This would also likely be Bateman's first spelling bee, considering as a child actor he probably missed out on all common human kid things.

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