A few months ago it was announced SUBMARINE director and star of THE IT CROWD, Richard Ayoade would be helming the another Ben Stiller produced film of THE APOSTLES OF INFINITE LOVE. But since then things have changed.
Tracking Board have broke the story, but with not much concerning the reason for, the director dropping out of the production. The script was on the 2008 Black List by Victoria Strouse about:
When an upper class dysfunctional New York family learn their youngest daughter has joined a cult in the midwest, they recruit a cult deprogrammer and go on the road to save her while both parents and siblings confront their issues with one another.
The title of the film, THE APOSTLES OF INFINITE LOVE, was originally the name of a cult in French Canada headed by Michel Collin’s a French priest (and self proclaimed Pope occurring to Wikipedia).
The most likely reason for leaving the production is probably conflicting schedules with his current film in pre-productions, THE DOUBLE, adapted from the Fyodor Dostoyevsky. THE DOUBLE is a novella published in 1846 dealing with the protagonist’s ‘internal psychological struggle’ upon learning of his doppelganger. The film has cast THE SOCIAL NETWORK’s Jesse Eisenberg.
