American Beauty director Sam Mendes is taking another look at the American family, this time in a comedy written by author Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and his novelist/editor wife, Vendela Vida (And Now You Can Go). The untitled film follows a couple, pregnant with their first child, as they travel America looking for the ideal place to settle down. Focus Features, which will distribute the film, hasn't confirmed casting, but John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph (SNL) are rumored to star.
Mendes is currently in post-production on the 1950s drama Revolutionary Road starring , Kate Winslet, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Eggers recently co-wrote the screenplay adaption of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. The film, co-written and directed by Spike Jonze was set to open this summer but was recently pushed back to 2009.
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