Will Ferrell May Attend Crazy U
Even as the battle over education spending and costs continues, parents’ quests to make sure their sproglets get into the best colleges and universities becomes ever more frenzied. Now New Line has decided that the soul-sapping death march of test scores, applications, campus tours, interviews and more is prime source material for a cinematic comedy, snapping up the rights to Andrew Ferguson’s book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, as a likely project for Will Ferrell.
Ferguson’s 2001 book chronicles his adventures in the cutthroat world of college applications while trying to ensure that his son doesn’t make a fatal mistake that could cost him an elite education. That’s even before the SAT scores and tough admissions interviews. Part of the book finds the desperate father looking to cadge a meeting with an expensive private college consultant who can apparently show the best ways for junior to shine. And all so that he can head off to drink beer and have sex on dad’s dollar. Nice…
It sounds like it could be a funny film, and Ferrell is now attached to produce the script with Gary Sanchez Productions partner Adam McKay and possibly star. We’ll have to wait and see if the idea makes it through an even more hit-and-miss process: development…
