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Jake Kasdan's TV Set
November 19, 2007

“The TV Set isn’t really a satire,” writer/director Jake Kasdan told us in a recent interview, referring to his current new release. “It’s more of a kind of, well, let’s say that there’s nothing that happens in the movie that couldn’t and doesn’t happen all the time in real life.”

 

Starring David Duchovy, Sigourney Weaver and Ioan Gruffudd, the Fox release concerns a TV writer/producer (Duchovny) about to embark on his latest comedy project—a personal one involving his

brother’s death—who must hop, skip and jump his way through all the obstacles of Hollywood television production. In this case, that includes an untalented leading man (Frank Kranz), his annoying manager (Judy Greer), and a holier-than-thou network exec (Weaver).

 

“Believe me, there’s less satisfaction than you think in making a project like this,” said Kasdan, who based much of The TV Set’s script on experiences he himself had while working on such now-defunct television shows as Undeclared, Grosse Pointe and Freaks and Geeks.

 

Kasdan’s latest project, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, is set to open wide on Dec. 21. “It’s a big, broad comedy,” according to Kasdan, that stars John C. Reilly as a near-legendary albeit fictional rock’n’roll star.

 

“I like to make different kinds of things and certainly anything is possible,” Kasdan told us. “But I generally like making comedies.”

Posted by Laurence Lerman on November 19, 2007 | Comments (0)