Lionsgate Picks Up Interracial Romantic Comedy from Gary Anthony Williams Posted by Wilson Morales
October 31, 2013
Source: Deadline
Lionsgate has bought the romantic comedy pitch I Own You from The Soul Man‘s Gary Anthony Williams and his writing partner Jeannie Roshar, reports Deadline.
Based on a 2008 short film of the same name that they penned and starred in together and which Williams directed, the story centers on the comedic trials and tribulations of an interracial marriage turned upside down.
Deadline states that Williams and Roshar aren’t expected to reprise their characters from the short, only write the project.
Williams has many TV credits, including episodic work on Boston Legal, Malcolm In The Middle, and Fox’s The Internship, currently appears on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Raising Hope, and on Cartoon Network’s MAD. He also provided the voice of Uncle Ruckus on The Boondocks. Roshar wrote the feature StarLaunch, which Neil Patrick Harris is attached to star in, and Decades, which was optioned by the Napoleon Dynamite crew.
