{"id":531612,"date":"2026-03-18T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:08:08","slug":"jason-bateman-to-direct-cackling-of-the-dodos-with-harrelson-rockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531612\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Bateman To Direct &#8216;Cackling of the Dodos&#8217; With Harrelson, Rockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> press event Wednesday, the streamer\u2019s Dan Lin and Jinny Howe announced a new feature film <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-cackling-of-the-dodos\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-cackling-of-the-dodos\" data-tag=\"the-cackling-of-the-dodos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Cackling of the Dodos<\/a> that will be directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jason-bateman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-bateman\" data-tag=\"jason-bateman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Bateman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe feature puts Netflix back in business with Bateman, the EP\/star of Ozark and Black Rabbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Cackling of the Dodos follows small-town farmer George, who has a truly terrible day when he discovers a corpse chilling out in a grain bin and he is unwittingly forced into a chaotic, sloppy cover-up by his boss Denny. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sam-rockwell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-rockwell\" data-tag=\"sam-rockwell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Rockwell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/woody-harrelson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_woody-harrelson\" data-tag=\"woody-harrelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woody Harrelson<\/a> will star in the movie, which is based on an original screenplay by novelist Rye Curtis (Kingdomtide).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRockwell won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Harrelson is a three-time Oscar nominee for Three Billboards (Best Supporting Actor), The Messenger (Best Supporting Actor) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (Best Actor).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBateman received an <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/2026-actor-awards-nominations-sag-1236670128\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236670128\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Actor Award nomination<\/a> from SAG-AFTRA for his work in Black Rabbit. In addition, he played the villain in the 2024 airport security thriller Carry-On, which spent eight weeks in Netflix\u2019s Global Top 10 list. Ozark received 45 Emmy nominations over its four-season run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a Netflix press event Wednesday, the streamer\u2019s Dan Lin and Jinny Howe announced a new feature film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,6936,217,29122,238948,127805],"class_list":["post-531612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-bateman","tag-netflix","tag-sam-rockwell","tag-the-cackling-of-the-dodos","tag-woody-harrelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}