3.5 million viewers for the fifth season premier of your hit cable TV series greases a lot of palms and gets sh*t done. Just ask Matthew Weiner, creator and exec-producer of Mad Men, who just saw the show achieve its highest rated episode yet. Already one of the richest creators in TV Land, he's hoping that the success he's had on the small screen will pass to the big screen, and now he's got the cast to make that happen.
THR reports that Amy Poehler and Owen Wilson are set to star in You Are Here, a comedy that Weiner has been trying to get done for nearly ten years with no luck. Zach Galifianakis has been attached for a few years now, back when Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Aniston were set to star. Not sounding like anything Don Draper would ever involve himself with, the story centers on a fun loving weatherman who relies on his best friend for practically everything. When the friend's father dies and he inherits the family general store out in the country, the weatherman is forced to examine his own life.
Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellwegger, and Matt Dillon have all circled the film at one point or another, so the material must be pretty strong to attract all these big names. Shooting should begin in April, dead smack in the middle of Mad Men's fifth season.
