Mandate Pictures has bought a comedy pitch from screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis based on Bob Powers’ book “You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero,” reports Variety. The project has been set up with the Mark Gordon Co.
The untitled comedy will follow a nice guy thrust into a series of unusual circumstances after a blind date goes awry. Powers’ book was published last year by St. Martin’s Griffin.
“I wanted to drop the most indecisive man on the planet and his idiot friends into a fast-moving action movie and see what happens,” DeVincentis said.
DeVincentis’ credits include High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank.
