For a while there, we could set our watches to Christopher Guest’s directorial schedule. Every three-and-a-half years, the mockumentarian would release another gem: Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration. All dry and satirical, all celebratory of their shared performers’ mile-deep pools of talent, all unique. But the pattern halted after the latter, Oscar-mocking picture, leaving us without a cinematic Guest gem since 2006. But if he’s just been spending all that time developing his new HBO comedy Family Tree, then we can probably forgive him. Especially since he’s roping in the comedy world’s new prince, Chris O’Dowd.
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The below trailer for the film lands Irish O’Dowd among Guest’s usual clan of American, British, and American-feigning-British heroes, including Michael McKean, Jim Piddock, Ed Begley, Jr., Don Lake, Bob Balaban, and (the powerhouse) Fred Willard. Will the rest of the troupe show up for the program? Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey? We can hope… but for now, we’re just pleased with what we’re already seeing:
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