Kumail Nanjiani & Molly Shannon Taking ‘Driver's Ed' With Bobby Farrelly
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Farrelly — one half of famed comedy filmmaking duo The Farrelly Brothers — will direct from an original screenplay by Thomas Moffett. Producers include Jonas Pate (Outer Banks, Amazon's upcoming The Runarounds), Jennifer Pate (Amazon's upcoming The Runarounds), and David Stone, co-founder of TFC Management and TFC Productions. Exec producers include AGC's Stuart Ford and Aghi Koh, Lorelle Lynch, Farrelly and Scott Lambert (The Killer's Game, Tár).
Coming off of roles in Only Murders in the Building and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Nanjiani will next be seen in Poker Face Season 2, James L. Brooks' Ella McCay, and Dylan Meyer's recently announced Neon drama The Wrong Girls opposite Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat. He is repped by UTA, Mosaic, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Also recently seen on Only Murders, Shannon's other upcoming projects include Balls Up, Peter Farrelly's action comedy for Amazon MGM and Skydance, in which she stars alongside Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser, as well as Netflix and 3000 Pictures' rom-com People We Meet on Vacation. She is repped by UTA, Framework Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
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