We have obtained news about a new dark comedy featuring Ron Pearlman titled “The Job.” We get wind of this picture thanks to the fabled caves of Yahoo:
Ron Perlman (“Hellboy”), Taryn Manning (“Hustle & Flow”), Joe Pantoliano (“The Sopranos”) and Patrick Flueger (USA’s series “The 4400”) will star in the darkly comic drama “The Job.”
Shem Bitterman is adapting his 1998 play about a hapless man, Bubba (Flueger), who’s desperate to find a job and marry the woman he loves (Manning). A drifter (Perlman) hooks him up with a slick employment agent (Pantoliano), but after agreeing to the job, Bubba quickly finds that he’s in way over his head. Bitterman’s play won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best new play before transferring to an off-Broadway run.
This sounds like a great idea for a film! Being hired for a job that you are unqualified for is a helpless situation that should make for all sorts of tragic comedy. This story looks like it has already had a successful run on the stage and will be well tempered by the time it hits the silver screen. I like adaptations of plays to film, they are different stylistically and are a welcome change of pace.
Ron Pearlman is a fantastic pick for a drifter character. I can picture him with a satchel over his shoulder, wearing 5 o’clock shadow, and riding the rails from one town to the next without a schedule or destination. Pearlman is hobo chic.
If any of you have seen this stage production – please share your thoughts with us.
