Bailout (film)

Bailout
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Produced by Andrew Eaton
Melissa Parmenter
Michael Besman
Ben Cooley
Priyanka Mattoo
Screenplay by Jess Walter
Story by Jess Walter (Novel)
Starring Jack Black
Studio
  • Revolution Films
  • Ealing Metro International
Language English

Bailout is an upcoming film adaptation of Jess Walter's novel The Financial Lives of The Poets. Director Michael Winterbottom is scheduled to film it in January 2012.[1] The film was announced on May 12, 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival. It stars Jack Black and follows a man who loses his job and learns his wife is cheating on him, and must keep his family afloat by becoming a pot dealer.[2]

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