Indie Director Joe Swanberg Heads to 'Work Wife' Studio Comedy

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Director Joe Swanberg is known in the indie world for films like Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas and his latest Sundance selected Digging for Fire, but now he’s going to make the jump to studio comedies. The Wrap has word that Swanberg has signed on to direct a comedy called Work Wife for New Line. The script comes from “Trophy Wife” TV series writers Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins and follows a pair lawyers in their 30s who try to find out if they can actually date a co-worker. There has to be some kind of comedic catch other than that, because that description sounds pretty vague and not very amusing. Read on! ›››

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