Jonathan Kesselman, director of Comedy Central’s “The Hebrew Hammer,” will helm the remake of Blake Edwards’ The Party that Marco Garibaldi is producing under his Godfather Entertainment.
The project is a $20 million independently financed film that will aim for cameos by a number of high-profile Hollywood personalities.
In Edwards’ “Party,” Peter Sellers starred as Hrundi V. Bakshi, an Indian extra who inadvertently is invited to a swank Hollywood party. Garibaldi, who has brought on Brandon Gibson and Jim Russo to help him write the script, will tweak the conceit, focusing on a blond Midwesterner whose appearance is changed by studio executives eager he fit a part.
