Once a project eyed by Tony Scott some years ago, Alan Ball (American Beauty) will write, produce, and direct the adaptation of Rodney Sheldon's book about Paul Snider and Somen “Steve” Banerjee. Banerjee was a former gas station attendant who bought a rundown old nightclub and, with the help of Snider, turned it into the famous night club, Chippendales. Stiller will play Nick DeNoia, a choreographer who helped come up with the idea for the strip joint and expand it to a global level until Banerjee tried to have them killed.
Sounds like weighty material, although it was described awhile back as being in the vein of True Romance. Who knows how it will actually end up, but Stiller has another project coming up that will find him behind the camera rather than in front. Last year he was mentioned as a possibility to direct The Current War, and now Deadline says he's official in talks for the job. Michael Mitnick's Black List script follows public war between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to supply the first stable electric current.
