Ben Stiller attends the 71st Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) Ben Stiller, who won a Directors Guild Award for Showtime’s prison drama “Escape at Dannemora,” has signed on to direct “London,” a thriller based on a short story by crime writer Jo Nesbo. Oscar Isaac (“Star Wars” franchise) will play the lead and produce the Lionsgate film with Stiller. Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”) is adapting the screenplay.
Stiller will also direct and executive produce “Severance,” a workplace drama series for Apple TV+ starring Adam Scott (“Parks & Recreation,” “Big Little Lies”) as an employee with a dark past who’s trying to get himself together.
Stiller’s other producing projects include the completed Thanksgiving comedy “Friendsgiving” and YouTube Premium thriller “Dark Cargo.” He’s also executive producing a documentary about novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg (“On the Waterfront,” “What Makes Sammy Run?”) who named Communist names before the House Un-American Activities Committee—a.k.a the McCarthy hearings—in the 1950s.
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