{"id":27883,"date":"2013-04-23T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=27883"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:50:54","slug":"stillers-production-company-hires-writer-for-dodgeball-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/23\/stillers-production-company-hires-writer-for-dodgeball-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiller&#8217;s Production Company Hires Writer For DODGEBALL Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dodgeball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27884\" alt=\"Dodgeball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dodgeball.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dodgeball.jpg 1355w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dodgeball-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dodgeball-550x236.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn could be heading back to the Dodgeball arena. Stiller&#8217;s production company Red Hour has hired Clay Tarver to start work developing a screenplay for a sequel to Stiller and Vaughn&#8217;s 2004 comedy <strong>Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There had been some talk over the years since the film&#8217;s initial release of a possible sequel and since Dodgeball earned $114 million at the domestic box office against a budget of $20 million I had expected them to get around to moving on a follow-up long before now.<\/p>\n<p>Although their characters were rivals in the original film, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/dodgeball-sequel-works-at-fox-444034\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> states &#8220;the sequel will focus on Vaughn and Stiller forced to team up to fight an even bigger threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Traver&#8217;s name is unfamiliar, you&#8217;re not alone. Not many people saw the 2001 thriller <strong>Joy Ride<\/strong> which he co-wrote with J.J. Abrams. More recently, though, he has been working in comedy on such projects as <strong>Men Making Music<\/strong>, about the world of competitive barbershop quartets, and with Mike Judge on a satire about hunting, <strong>Meat in the Freezer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Stiller and Vaughn may be returning for another championship match-up.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/23\/stillers-production-company-hires-writer-for-dodgeball-sequel\/\" title=\"Stiller&#8217;s Production Company Hires Writer For DODGEBALL Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27884,"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":[242,6361,6360,1910],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ben-stiller","9":"tag-clay-traver","10":"tag-dodgeball-2","11":"tag-dodgeball-a-true-underdog-story"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27883"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=27883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}