Tom Blyth, Chris Diamantopoulos, Jordyn Denning, Zach Villa & Jay Mohr To Star In Comedy ‘Discussion Materials’ From Director Alfredo Barrios Jr.
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Tom Blyth (Billy the Kid), Chris Diamantopolous (Red Notice), Jordyn Denning (Pam & Tommy), Zach Villa (Good Mourning with a U) and Jay Mohr (The Cleaning Lady) have signed on to star in the comedy Discussion Materials, marking the feature directorial debut of TV writer, director and producer Alfredo Barrios Jr.The offbeat comedy is based on the based on the bestselling book Discussion Materials: Tales of a Rookie Wall Street Investment Banker by Bill Keenan.
It follows Bobby Sanders (Blyth), a hustling and quick-talking ex-pro-hockey-player-turned-junior-banker who navigates the quirky and somewhat surreal world of high finance as he confronts life’s meaning within this gilded cage.Diamantopolous will play the bank’s most feared managing director, Masterson, with Denning as Michelle, the brilliant and high-flying corporate attorney that Bobby falls for.
Villa will portray Danny, an investment banking analyst whose financial brilliance is only matched by his insatiable libido, with Mohr as Abernathy, a wily and golf-loving managing director who made a lucrative career out of doing hare-brained corporate deals that line his pockets and leave his corporate clients in ruins.Barrios Jr.
adapted the script for Discussion Materials, from a story he wrote with Keenan. Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Bill Immerman, Keenan, Doug Ellin and Andrew Sugerman are producing.Barrios Jr.
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