Louis CK is making a return to the big screen by writing, directing and starring in I’m a Cop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The indie film will be about a depressed man who volunteers as a police officer, while living in the shadow of his mother, a decorated retired cop. After she dies, he decides to finally become a real police officer, despite his misgivings.
It will be produced by Scott Rudin, one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers, known for films including The Truman Show, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Clueless.
CK also writes and directs his hit TV comedy Louie, which is currently in its fifth season, and has won two Emmys for his work on the show.
The last film CK directed was Pootie Tang, a comedy adapted from a sketch on The Chris Rock Show. It was a difficult production, and CK was taken off the film halfway through making it.
Last month, he told The Hollywood Reporter about the difficulties he faced:“I don’t feel like I need anyone to tell me anything with a TV show because I know exactly what I’m doing, but I’d be arrogant to think that I can take someone’s $8 million and just turn in a movie,” he said. “Movies are different. There’s a permanency to them.
“I was dealing with people every day whose pressures I didn’t understand, and I wasn’t very nice about how I said no to them. I put myself in a position I didn’t have to be in. A lot of what makes this kind of stuff work is empathy.”
CK has played a cop before, in Parks and Recreation, and he’ll next be seen opposite Bryan Cranston in Trumbo.
