EXCLUSIVE: Max Winkler and Matt Spicer are on board for The Coward. The duo will co-write the adaptation of Nick Jones’ comic play about 18th century English aristocrats. Winkler will direct and Spicer will executive produce the Big Beach Films project. American Work’s Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nanden, along with Big Beach’s Mark Turtletaub and Peter Saraf, will produce. The duo, along with Jason Reitman, worked together on 2010’s Ceremony, starring Uma Thurman. Winkler has also been attached to direct a crime comedy with Steve Carell for Warner Bros. Both Winkler and Spicer are repped by CAA and Principato Young.
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good for these guys. liked ceremony quite a bit, actually.
The Ceremony is an awful film. But thanks for your opinion Max’s rep
Maybe it’s a cliche to say it couldn’t happen to nicer guys, but it couldn’t. Been eager to see what they were up to since I saw Ceremony, which is such an overlooked movie by the way.
It got a 39% on Rotten for a reason. It’s terrible.
nice one for Winkler. He’s an animal.
Henry Winkler’s son? Sure resembles him…
Yup. White and male. I’ll bet not one diversity/woman was considered for the job.
hollywood is run by white males, what’d you expect?
by applying for the job, you mean pitching a project? oh the evil behemoth of a corporation that is big beach.
This is great news for a really great guy!
Elia, get a life. You’re giving all women of color a bad name. Get some talent, then you’ll get work.
So proud of my cousin, Matthew. Couldn’t be happier for you.
Oh my gosh!!!!!! So cute!!!! Can’t wait to see what they come up with. I love their girlfriends a lot. Sasha Spielberg and Sarah Ramos. That’s cute.
Me too!! Those girls are so fashionable!!
Also, Wink (as people like myself who have spent time with him can call him) is not only a young filmmaker who’s about to MAKE SOME (SERIOUS) NOISE! in Hollywood, he’s all-around “good people” who can spitball for hours on Derrida and then discuss the poetic merits of Ghostface Killah’s solo projects without being a pretentious drag.
CLASS ACT!