Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a bitter, 41-year-old high school dropout. Looking for ways to make other people as unhappy as he is, he discovers a loophole that lets him enter the National Quill Spelling Bee.Competing against young kids, he manages to make it to nationals, while befriending Chaitanya (Chandz) a winning, charming speller who isn’t fazed by Trilby’s hi-jinks.Hall is set as Dr Bowman, who runs the Bee, while Janney is Dr Bernice Deagan, the director of the organization.
Andrew Dodge wrote the screenplay.
Bateman, Mason Novick, Sean McKittrick, Ted Hamm and Jeff Culotta will produce the film.
Production kicks off this week.
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