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Diablo Cody teams with Steven Spielberg: Garbage seeks its own level

June 5th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Juno meets Jew, yes…Yes…YES!!!

A stripper turned screenwriter cause celebre is teaming with a manchild mogul who never saw a girl naked until he was forty for a new pay cable sitcom about a dysfunctional family.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Showtime has picked up 12 episodes of United States of Tara, a comedy series to be overwritten by Diablo Cody (Juno) and produced by Steve Spielberg.

The show stars Toni Collette as a wife and mother with a dissociative identity disorder family and John Corbett, who plays her husband. It’s expected to enter production in Los Angeles in the summer.

On the basis of one film and a stack of teleplays, Showtime president of entertainment Robert Greenblatt fawned over “Diablo Coby’s vision.” Single-camera comedy does not a visionary make. Her characters, who don’t shut their mouths for two seconds, are too busy blabbing to worry about seeing.

“It’s a very provocative idea,” said Greenblatt, “and there’s a combination of humor and real drama. It’s a unique show that seems to be right up our alley.”

Cody will continue to serve as a writer; she also will exec produce with Spielberg, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of DreamWorks TV and Alexa Junge. Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) directed the pilot.

Greenblatt expexts the show to debut early next year. He had originally hoped he might be able to launch it earlier, but the writers strike and Collette’s pregnancy delayed the shooting of the pilot.

The series kickoff focuses on a pregnant, unwed and underage concentration camp victim (who owns nothing more than a little red latex dress) saved from the gas chambers by a band of renegade space aliens that magically appear in the final reel to extinguish Hitler’s inferno.

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