{"id":1603,"date":"2008-11-18T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:49:14","slug":"seth-gordon-working-on-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/18\/seth-gordon-working-on-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Gordon Working On SUICIDE SQUAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Seth Gordon, the director behind the really fun\u00a0documentary The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters<\/strong>, has signed to helm the feature Suicide Squad<\/strong> for Working Title Films Universal Studios.<\/p>\n

The film, from screenwriter Chris Johnson, will tell the story of a recently paroled con man who recruits a crew of amateur henchmen to help pull a heist at the Kentucky Derby. Most recently, screenwriting siblings Matt and Billy Eddy have turned in a draft of the script.<\/p>\n

The film marks the fourth fiction feature that the director has signed for following the critical success of his video game documentary The King Of Kong<\/strong>. His first feature, Four Christmases<\/strong>, is due in theaters next Wednesday. Gordon is also attached to The Only Living Boy In New York<\/strong> for Sony and is developing a fictionalized version of King Of Kong<\/strong> at New Line.<\/p>\n

Gordon hasn\u2019t completely abandoned the documentary genre as he will be contributing a segment to the upcoming multi-director documentary Freakanomics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Via The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seth Gordon, the director behind the really fun\u00a0documentary The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters, has signed to helm the feature Suicide Squad for Working Title Films Universal Studios. The film, from screenwriter Chris [click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[57,22,1056,1057,1058],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-directors","8":"tag-in-development","9":"tag-seth-gordon","10":"tag-suicide-squad","11":"tag-the-king-of-kiong"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t