Rodney Rothman is a spectacularly funny guy, and yet I'd wager that many of the audiences who have laughed their faces off at a joke he wrote have never heard his name. That will most likely change after the opening of what Universal is calling Untitled Zach Galifianakis/Bill Hader/Seth Rogen R-Rated Comedy, which Rothman is directing from his own original script. I've known Rothman for a while now. We first met on Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and right after that, I tracked down his book, Early Bird: A Memoir Of Premature Retirement. He was a writer for Late Night With David Letterman when he was 21 years old, and at 24, he was promoted to head writer. That's the job he left before writing Early Bird, but he didn't stay unemployed for long. He wrote some episodes of Undeclared and Committed. He tried to get an Early Bird TV show off the ground.
- 3/4/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
NBC is developing a new comedy series based on writer Rodney Rothman's book, Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement. Deadline reports that the network intends to shoot a pilot, but will make a formal decision once it has read Rothman's latest script. The single-camera show, which will be produced by Ums and 3 Arts, will follow a young man who moves into a retirement community in Florida. Rothman's (more)...
- 12/2/2010
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Six years after originally developing Rodney Rothman's Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement as a comedy series, NBC is taking another stab at a comedy series adaptation of the book by the former Late Show with David Letterman head writer, which chronicled his experiences living with retirees in Florida. The network is currently redeveloping the project as a single-camera comedy about a young guy who moves into a retirement community. NBC has already hired a casting director and intends to shoot a pilot but will make a formal decision after it sees Rothman's new script, which is now being written. Ums and 3 Arts, which also produced the first NBC adaptation, are producing. The first incarnation of the project got to a pilot stage in 2005. The single-camera pilot was directed by Paul Feig and starred Timm Sharp as a writer who was fired from his dream TV writing...
- 12/1/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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