Country music, Glen Powell, and a new Judd Apatow comedy? We’re in
We love to see Glen Powell booked and busy. And now he’s taking on a new comedy film with director and writer Judd Apatow! The two are collaborating on a story about a fallen country star. So…Crazy Heart but make it funny? I’m in.
News broke that the two would be co-writing a script together for Universal, produced by Apatow Productions as well as Powell’s production company with Dan Cohen called Barnstorm Productions. Outside of that, we don’t know much about the project. But I am a sucker for a country star down on his luck.
I made a joke about Crazy Heart but it is one of my favorite movies and is definitely in my top three favorite Jeff Bridges’ movies. It is about Bad Blake, a country musician who is down on his luck. That is decidedly not a comedy but to see Powell play a country star is exciting. Does this mean he’s going to sing?
Whatever the film ends up being, it is part of a trend for the actor. Powell previously co-wrote the screenplay for Hit Man and has been taking part in writing some of the projects he is working on. And he has an impressive slate of movies coming out in the next few years, with both Chad Powers and The Running Man releasing in 2025.
Glen Powell taking on screenwriting is my favorite genre
Powell found success in his 30s. He was a working actor prior to most people knowing his name after Top Gun: Maverick but unless you were a big Scream Queens girlie (like me) or remember the Long-Fingered Boy in Spy-Kids 3D, you probably didn’t know who he was. And he attributes his turn to screenwriting as well as acting to his later start.
During an interview with Yahoo!‘s Kelsey Weekman, Powell shared that if it wasn’t for doing this in his 30s, we might not have turned to writing. “I feel like if I would have gotten even a 100th of any of this when I wanted it, I don’t know if I would have been developed enough to appreciate it in the way that l am now,” he said. “I feel very grateful because the detours in your journey, like writing — right now I’m on the set of Chad Powers, on the set of a show I’m writing and producing and getting to star in — l’ve had to kind of develop other skill sets when failing at acting, you know? I’m sort of prepared for this moment, or getting to take advantage of this moment in a way that I don’t know I would have gotten to if failure didn’t come so often.”
After the success and praise for his collaboration with Richard Linklater in Hit Man, I’m very down for Powell continuing to help write and star in projects with directors. If that’s what his goal is with his own production company, I’m very excited to see where it takes Powell and his career.
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