Having already added Adam Sandler, Brad Pitt and True Detective director Cary Fukunaga to their upcoming slate, Netflix has now enrolled the talents of Christopher Guest.
The director of Best in Show has sold the platform the exclusive rights to his next film Mascots. The comedy will follow the men and women who are battling for the Gold Fluffy award at the 8th World Mascot Association championships.
Little else is known about the film at this stage, but it’s likely to take a similar format to Guest’s acclaimed mockumentaries, including For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind and Waiting for Guffman.
It’s also expected that Mascots will enlist cast members who have been frequent collaborators with Guest, including Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge and Parker Posey. The film will premiere on the platform next year.
In the last six months, Netflix has also purchased Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, starring Idris Elba, War Machine, starring Brad Pitt and a six-picture deal with Adam Sandler, kicking off with comedy western The Ridiculous Six.
- This article was amended on Wednesday 12 August 2015. We mistakenly referred to Christopher Guest as the director of This Is Spinal Tap whereas he was one of four co-writers and Rob Reiner directed. This has been corrected.
