Punch to join ‘Schmucks’

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By Adnan Tezer Aug 6, 2009, 19:48 GMT

British actress Lucy Punch has joined the cast of “Dinner for Schmucks,” the long-in-development comedy starring “40 Year Old Virgin” and “Anchorman” co-stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd that Jay Roach (“Meet the Parents”) is attached to direct.

The film is a remake of the 1998 French film “Le diner de cons” (The Dinner Game), written and directed by Francis Veberm, which focused on a weekly dinner party held by a Paris publisher who challenges his friends to bring the most pathetic guest to the gathering.

According to The Moving Picture, shooting is scheduled to begin filming this fall for release next summer.

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