‘Isn’t It Romantic’ Director Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Next Movie Is Comedy ‘Silent Retreat’
Todd Strauss Schulsonis feeling the love for his latest filmIsn’t It Romantic, which saw modest box office success on its Valentine’s Day opening, and the director has already signed onto his next project. Schulson is set to helm the comedySilent Retreatfor Miramax, which he co-wrote withThe Lego Movie 2writerMatthew Fogel.
Schulson has lined up his next project afterIsn’t It Romanticafter the Rebel Wilson-starring comedy debuted to modest critical and commercial success yesterday. We haven’t even seen the weekend box office returns forIsn’t It Romanticyet, but Schulson is hard at work on his next feature film,Silent Retreat. According toThe Hollywood Reporter,the comedy from Schulson and co-writer Matthew Fogel has landed at Miramax with production aiming for a late spring/early summer start.
Here is the premise forSilent Retreatper THR:
Silent Retreatcenters on Thomas and Gillian, a couple who are having relationship issues. Thomas' best friend, Eric, and his recently widowed mother, Wanda, aren’t doing much better. The perfect solution? A meditation retreat that requires absolute silence for three days.
“Matt and Todd (who are best friends) have a new best friend in Miramax, a company who is bold and creatively supportive. We’re mostly just thrilled that someone believed in us enough to give us money to make a silent comedy about meditation,” Strauss-Schulson and Fogel said in a statement following the Thursday announcement of the feature film.
“We are really excited to go on this creative journey with Matt and Todd, who share such a unique vision,” Miramax CEO Bill Block and vp Matthew Anderson added.
Isn’t It Romanticwas surprisingly charming, and points to great promise for Schulson, who seems to have taken to a genre-subverting style with the aforementioned rom-com send-up and his horror film satireFinal Girls. WhileSilent Retreatseems like it has a pretty straight approach to the domestic comedy, I’m sure there will be some sort of genre-bending twist that we can expect from Schulson.
