Chuck's Josh Schwartz To Direct Fun Size

Josh Schwartz (co-created NBC's Chuck)  will make his feature directing debut with Fun Size, a teen comedy that his Fake Empire shingle is developing for Paramount.

Read my Exclusive interview with him Here about Chuck.

Paramount picked up the spec script by Colbert Report scribe Max Werner in May 2010. And while several projects are vying for Schwartz's attention as a director, including the coming-of-age drama Looking for Alaska, he fell hard for the comedic script, which centers on a sarcastic teenage girl who is forced to take her little brother trick-or-treating on Halloween, then loses him and must find him before their mother finds out.

A sticking point had been timing. Paramount was unsure if the movie should be made in time for this Halloween or Halloween 2012. The studio has now made the decision to go for this year, so the movie, while still not officially greenlighted, according to the studio, is shooting for a late spring start in St. Louis.

Lis Rowinski is overseeing Fun Size for Fake Empire.

Schwartz, co-created Chuck and Gossip Girl and created The O.C., writing and exec producing the series, which developed rabid followings and put the showrunner on the map as someone in touch with the youth demo.

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