Allison Janney will star in two comedies before heading to Broadway to star in Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5.”Janney has landed the roles in Sam Mendes’ indecisively titled “This Must Be the Place” and the Eddie Murphy vehicle “A Thousand Words” for DreamWorks.
According to Hollywood Reporter, in “Words,” Janney plays Murphy’s boss, a savvy, money-grubbing head of a literary agency. Murphy plays a man who discovers he only has a thousand words left to say before he dies.

In Mendes’ relationship comedy, Janney plays a loud, brassy, decidedly un-PC woman who admittedly has a few screws loose. She reunites with a former employee in Phoenix, where the expectant mother/employee (Maya Rudolph) begins a tour of the country with her husband (John Krasinski) to find the best place to raise their child.