Halfway between the “put the camera down and let them riff” style of Judd Apatow productions, and the “tight and visually stylized” Todd Phillips aesthetic, Horrible Bosses takes a high concept premise but then lets its actors play in this dark and funny comedy. The film stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudekis as men tormented by their employers, who drunkenly decide that homicide is justified in their cases. As director Seth Gordon told us, it’s a relate-able premise. Find out more below…

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Seth Gordon made The King of Kong, and it changed his life. It was the film that got him making feature films, and doing TV work. His latest is Horrible Bosses and it’s his best film since Kong. An ensemble comedy with great talents, the film delivers great laughs and a solid plot. Gordon makes for a good conversation, too. He was forthcoming and dished on his upcoming Wargames remake and the feature remake of King of Kong. Check it out…

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We’re convinced that Jennifer Aniston is afraid of change because over the past few years she’s played the same character in all her films. She needs to pull a Julia Roberts and do an Erin Brockovich type role so we can be reminded that she has acting range. But until then, THR is reporting that Aniston is in talks to star in a developing comedy called Horrible Bosses.

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The director of The King of Kong has a new King – King Dork. According to /film, Seth Gordon is in the talks to direct a big screen adaptation of Frank Portman‘s young King Dork, a drama/comedy about a teenage misfit who seeks refuge in music (we can relate to that), and tries to uncover the truth about his father’s death.

When the novel was first published in 2006, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay quickly optioned to make it into a feature film with Paramount Vantage, but the project has now moved to Sony Pictures.

Below is the official synopsis from the book:

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