Jenny Slate Reuniting With Obvious Child Director And Writer For 90S Comedy Landline

Jenny Slate Reuniting With ‘Obvious Child’ Director And Writer For ’90s Comedy ‘Landline’

By Angie Han/May 18, 2016 3:30 pm EST

Slate is set to star in Robespierre’s next directorial effort, Landline, to be written by Robespierre and Holm. As the title suggests, Landline is a period piece — specifically, an ensemble comedy set in 1995. John Turturro, Edie Falco, Jay Duplass, and newcomer Abby Quinn are also among the cast. 

The Hollywood Reporter describes Landline as follows:

’90s nostalgia seems to be good business right now, inspiring projects as varied as the ABC family sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, the rap biopic Straight Outta Compton, and the blockbuster sequel Jurassic World. The description for Landline sounds a little cutesy — no cell phones, how quaint! — but Obvious Child showed that this team can do sweet-but-not-sentimental really well. Robespierre, Slate, and Holm, whose Obvious Child debuted at Sundance in 2014, reunited once before for an FX comedy pilot about two best friends on a road trip.

Slate was back at Sundance this year with Jeff Baena’s bachelor party comedy Joshy, and recently hit SXSW with My Blind Brother. She was heard as the voice of Assistant Mayor Bellwether in Disney’s Zootopia, will also be heard in this summer’s The Secret Life of Pets. She’ll next be seen in Marc Webb’s Gifted, also starring Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer.

Shooting on Landline begins later this month.