Will Ferrell is set to star in an independent comedy, Everything Must Go, with first time feature director Dan Rush.  They start production in March with the film costing under $10 million. Ferrell is taking a different path, instead of big bucks he is going for quality. 

Rush wrote the script based on Raymond Carver story.  Ferrell will play a guy who loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.

Rush has built his reputation by directing commercials with a humorous bent.  His talent has pulled in offers for movie deals, but he turned them down in favor of writing a film for him to direct.

Everything Must Go is his first screenplay and opened doors to meetings with numerous leading men who liked the script. But Ferrell got the gig and signed on because he was impressed by Rush.

It will be interesting to see how this movie ends up on the screen.

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