If you haven’t seen The Wackness by now, you’re really missing out on a good picture. Of course, if our repeating of that advice hasn’t convinced you by now, it’s unlikely that it will. Lucky for the film’s director, someone has seen his unappreciated movie, because he’s signed on for his next big picture.
THR reports that Jonathan Levine, the writer and director behind The Wackness, has signed on to direct The Sitter for Fox Atomic, continuing his trend in the lower budget picture world.
The movie is described as something akin to Adventures in Babysitting (one of my favorite guilty pleasures). The Sitter will follow a college student who finds himself thrown out of school and forced to live back home with his mother again. The situation goes from bad to worse after he’s convinced to babysit the wild children next door, resulting in a night to remember.
Levine’s had sort of an interesting relationship with filmmaking so far. The Wackness received critical acclaim at Sundance but was largely passed over by a lot of people in theaters. That’s not as bad as his first picture, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, a slasher that still hasn’t made it into theaters. Hopefully The Sitter will fare better for Levine, who is definitely making a name for himself through his pictures, even if people aren’t always seeing them.
