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Sellers's 'Party' gets remake treatment
Published Monday, Mar 23 2009, 16:18 GMT | By Simon Reynolds
Jonathan Kesselman has signed up to direct a remake of Peter Sellers's The Party, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The 1968 original centred on Sellers's clumsy Indian extra Hrundi V. Bakshi, who unwittingly finds himself invited to a glitzy movie industry party. The film was one of several Sellers collaborations with his Pink Panther director Blake Edwards.
Mario Garibaldi will produce the $20 million comedy and is looking to recruit well-known Hollywood faces to cameo.
Kesselman previously wrote and directed the 2003 Comedy Central film The Hebrew Hammer, a Jewish blaxploitation spoof about a man who fights to save Hannukah.
The 1968 original centred on Sellers's clumsy Indian extra Hrundi V. Bakshi, who unwittingly finds himself invited to a glitzy movie industry party. The film was one of several Sellers collaborations with his Pink Panther director Blake Edwards.
Mario Garibaldi will produce the $20 million comedy and is looking to recruit well-known Hollywood faces to cameo.
Kesselman previously wrote and directed the 2003 Comedy Central film The Hebrew Hammer, a Jewish blaxploitation spoof about a man who fights to save Hannukah.
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