By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2018 4:30 pm EST
The article is filled with dizzying stories about designers, styles, and icons as Chabon races across Paris to take his son to a series of shows. But at its core, it’s a touching story about a father who doesn’t share a fondness for his son’s interest, but finds joy in watching the son immerse himself in a world he loves.
Ferrell, of course, has had his brush with the fashion world on screen already playing the villain Jacobim Mugatu in the Zoolander movies. But he’s always been an underrated dramatic actor (check out 2006’s Stranger Than Fiction if you haven’t seen it yet) and the notion of him taking a temporary break from the huge comedies for which he’s known is exciting to me. I love a good Ferrell comedy as much as the next person, but even his biggest fans will agree that his recent stretch of films – Get Hard, Daddy’s Home, Zoolander 2, The House, Daddy’s Home 2, and the upcoming Holmes & Watson – is far from the best stretch of his career. Maybe a father-son story from the guy behind Paranoid Park will give him a creative spark.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who directed Game Night and who are currently attached to write and direct The Flash movie for Warner Bros., are producing The Prince of Fashion through their GoldDay production company. We’re not sure when this one will go before cameras because Ferrell is juggling a lot of projects: he’s attached to star in an Uber movie, a film based on a singing competition called Eurovision, and remakes of foreign films Force Majeure and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
