{"id":715866,"date":"2026-07-28T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:40:09","slug":"jennifer-aniston-peter-dinklage-to-star-in-olivia-wildes-naughty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715866\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston & Peter Dinklage To Star In Olivia Wilde’s ‘Naughty’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After reinventing the dinner party pic with The Invite, Olivia Wilde<\/a> is looking to get into the holiday spirit for her next directorial outing. Sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures has greenlighted her holiday comedy Naughty<\/a> and tapped Jennifer Aniston<\/a> and Peter Dinklage<\/a> to star. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe studio also dated the pic for November 5, 2027. LuckyChap is producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tNaughty\u00a0follows\u00a0Mallory (Aniston), whose only hope of securing custody of her son from her gaslighting trash-bag ex is to find Santa Claus (Dinklage) and convince him to testify at her divorce hearing. The film feels like a perfect follow-up project for Wilde, who just showcased her skills as a comedy director with The Invite, one of the best-reviewed films of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Invite\u2019 Review: Director & Star Olivia Wilde Navigates Dinner Parties, Monogamy & Orgies In Whip-Smart Marital Comedy<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tJimmy Warden penned the script, which originated from his original spec that Universal landed in 2023 with Wilde on board to direct. Although Wilde would go on to direct The Invite first while Warden fine-tuned the script, she always had Aniston and Dinklage in mind to star as Mallory and Santa.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the success of The Invite, the studio knew it had to move fast to make sure it didn\u2019t lose Wilde to another project and worked out Aniston and Dinklage\u2019s schedule during the past weeks while getting it in front of a greenlight board that signed off and set it for November 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Invite\u2019 Trailer: Olivia Wilde\u2019s Buzzy Dinner-Party Pic Starring Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Edward Norton & Seth Rogen<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tOlivia Wilde<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAtsushi Nishijima<\/p>\n

\n\tLuckyChap will produce along with Wilde and Warden. EVP Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 25 Theatrical And Streaming Movies To Look Forward To This Summer<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Invite had highest film sale out of Sundance this year<\/a>, acquired by A24 after an all-night bidding war. The film has had the best platform release of the year<\/a>,\u00a0reinforcing the urgency for theatrical comedies. So far it has earned $20M domestically and $16M internationally, with most European markets yet to release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film has a critic rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the highest of the year, with 90% of people in exit polls recommended seeing it in the theater as an experience versus at home.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile she has spent a lot of her time recently earning Emmy nominations for her critically acclaimed role in the Apple drama series The Morning Show, Aniston is no stranger to making audiences laugh for the last couple of decades going back to her Emmy-winning role on Friends. Since then her hit comedies have included We\u2019re The Millers, The Breakup and the Murder Mystery movies and this film feels like a return to form. The final season of The Morning Show was just announced by Apple.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 45 Of The Most Anticipated Movies Of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Emmy-winning Dinklage recently produced and starred in the films American Dreamer, The Thicket and Brothers through his production company Estuary Films. He was also part of the SAG nominated ensemble for the smash hit Wicked. Upcoming films Idiots and Wicker, which both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released in the Summer and Fall respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the TV side, he was recently on the new season of the popular series Dexter: Resurrection and The Lowdown and was just added to the cast of Noah Hawley\u2019s Alien: Earth for the upcoming second season.<\/p>\n

\n\tAniston is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Management & Media, and Hansen Jacobson Teller. Dinklage is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Wilde is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.\u00a0Warden is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis and Ziffren Brittenham.\u00a0LuckyChap is represented by Entertainment 360, CAA and attorney Jeff Bernstein.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The 63 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After reinventing the dinner party pic with The Invite, Olivia Wilde is looking to get into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,5931,117500,57519,47329,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-naughty","tag-olivia-wilde","tag-peter-dinklage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}