Steve Martin and Diane Keaton will be together again in the family comedy One Big Happy. We get wind of this news from the professionals at Variety:
In a preemptive buy in the high six-figures, Paramount Pictures has acquired “One Big Happy,” a comic pitch from “Party of Five” creators Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman to which Steve Martin and Diane Keaton are attached to star.
Concept is being kept under wraps, but sources describe “One Big Happy” as a family comedy about a couple and a family reconnecting amid various obstacles. The material is a strong match for Martin and Keaton, who played a married couple in the Charles Shyer-directed “Father of the Bride” and its sequel.
I am a fan of Steve Martin. I think he is extremely talented and some of his films are amongst my all time favorites. I am not opposed to another feel good, family comedy …..but I long for another film akin to The Jerk or The Lonely Guy. If you have yet to see either of these two films, do so now!
Martin and Keaton did work well together in Father of the Bride, and I am not opposed to them teaming up again in this project; I just hope the characters are a bit different. Keaton could take Tom’s schtick from Valkyrie and wear an eye-patch, that would make her the coolest movie mom ever in my books. Daryl Hannah pulled off the look in Kill Bill, let’s see if Keaton can do likewise.
No word on when this picture is set to be released, but I will be on the lookout for further info, and will be sure to keep you posted.
