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Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine for 'Bernie'

Published Saturday, Aug 7 2010, 01:25 BST | By Mike Moody
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Jack Black has signed to star in director Richard Linklater's upcoming dark comedy Bernie.

Black and Linklater previously worked together on the 2003 comedy School of Rock.

According to Deadline, Shirley MacLaine will star opposite Black in the Mandalay Vision/Castle Rock production.

Black will play a mortician and community leader living in a small Texas town who befriends a wealthy widow (MacLaine).

Production is scheduled to begin in October.
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