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Jason Bateman
Actor, Producer, and Director Jason Bateman was honored with a Golden Globe Award in 2004 for Best Actor in a Comedy Series and earned an Emmy Award nomination and two Screen Actor’s Guild nominations for his irreverent portrayal of ‘Michael Bluth’ in the Mitch Hurwitz created, multi-award winning comedy series, Arrested Development. Since then, Bateman has attained “leading man” status on the big screen while returning to his roots in television by continuing to produce, write and develop projects for the small screen.
While Bateman’s starring role in the Emmy Award-winning FOX comedy series Arrested Development brought a newfound appreciation with the public, it also caught the attention of the motion picture industry and reinvigorated their interest in Bateman. Since the show ended in 2006, Bateman has secured one major film role after the next.
In August 2010, Bateman will star with Jennifer Aniston in the Mandate Pictures romantic comedy film, The Switch, in which he plays the lead role ‘Wally,’ the best friend keeping a life-changing secret from Aniston’s ‘Kassie.’ Following The Switch is the Universal and Working Title comedy Paul directed by Greg Mottola and written by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Paul follows two British comic books geeks who have a super natural encounter while road tripping across the United States. Bateman co-stars as ‘Agent Lorenzo Zoil.’
In 2011, Bateman will co-star as ‘Nick’ in the Warner Brothers’ ensemble comedy “Horrible Bosses” alongside Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Charlie Day and Jason Sudekis. Horrible Bosses follows three friends who conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. Horrible Bosses is directed by Seth Gordon and will be released July 29th, 2011.
Also in 2011, Bateman will be seen opposite Ryan Reynolds in the Universal Pictures comedy, The Change Up, as a responsible family man who switches bodies with his lazy best friend. The Change Up will begin production in October 2010 and will be directed by David Dobkin.
Bateman is also producing and starring in a film for Universal based on his own original idea called The Remarkable Fellows, which Joe Carnahan is writing and directing (Bateman partnered with Carnahan again after working together on the feature Smoking Aces for Universal in 2006). The film is an action comedy about two elite “revenge specialists” who are hired by the most powerful and wealthy people all over the world to exact revenge on those who have wronged them. The film is currently in development.