{"id":573304,"date":"2026-07-29T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:54:09","slug":"olivia-wilde-teases-next-directing-project-naughty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573304\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde Teases Next Directing Project ‘Naughty’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s an Olivia Wilde<\/a> summer, and the star is not slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn between stirring up awards buzz for her film The Invite<\/a> and leading Gregg Araki\u2019s new movie I Want Your Sex<\/a>, Wilde is also gearing up for her next directing vehicle, Naughty. It was announced on Tuesday<\/a> that Jennifer Aniston<\/a> and Peter Dinklage<\/a> would be starring in the holiday comedy, and that evening Wilde opened up about the project while on the red carpet for the Araki film. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can\u2019t believe it. This is a project we\u2019ve been working on for years; it\u2019s a passion project and I fought and fought and fought to get this made. I feel so grateful that we get to make it because it is a movie that aims to be in the spirit of Rob Reiner, a comedy that has a tremendous amount of heart at its core,\u201d Wilde told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe added that, like The Invite, it will juggle both the comedy and the tragedy, \u201cbut it\u2019s also a much bigger endeavor and is something that is way bigger than anything I\u2019ve ever taken on. I feel very honored in this day and age to be able to direct an original theatrical comedy for a studio at this level. Universal is putting a tremendous amount of trust in me and the ability to be able to direct Jen and Peter, among a host of other incredible actors who are hopefully coming on board; I just couldn\u2019t be more excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNaughty is currently in pre-production, and follows Mallory (Aniston), who is embroiled in a custody battle with her ex. Her last hope is to track down Santa Claus (Dinklage) and get him to testify in the divorce hearing. It will be Wilde\u2019s fourth film in the directing chair, following 2019\u2019s\u00a0Booksmart, 2022\u2019s\u00a0Don\u2019t Worry Darling and this year\u2019s The Invite<\/a>, and is set for theatrical release on Nov. 5, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an Olivia Wilde summer, and the star is not slowing down anytime soon. In between stirring up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,5499,61,60,10696,8245,5675,128650],"class_list":["post-573304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-olivia-wilde","tag-peter-dinklage","tag-the-invite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}