While Judd Apatow has been busy producing nearly every comedy made in Hollywood, we haven’t heard much about any directorial outings for him since last year’s Funny People. However now Universal Pictures has announced (via Deadline) that he’s working on a new screenplay and that the resulting movie will hit cinemas on June 1st, 2012.
Sadly very little is known about the film, other than that Apatow will write, direct and produce the comedy, marking his fourth directorial outing following The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Funny People.
It certainly shows Universal has faith in Apatow that they’re prepared to stake out a coveted date for the director’s next outing, long before he’s even turned in a script. It suggests that despite the failure of Funny People, they still reckon he’s a major force.