Warner Brothers plans comedy on bad dates, Worst Tinder Date Ever

Warner Bros is developing a romantic-comedy titled Worst Tinder Date Ever, from Keith Merryman and David A Newman, writers of 2011 film Friends with Benefits. Niija Kuykendall and Julia Spiro are overseeing for the studio. Sources say part of the inspiration for the project was one of Spiro’s own bad dates.

Published on: Jul 20, 2016, 12:20:57 IST

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Warner Bros is developing a romantic-comedy titled Worst Tinder Date Ever, from Keith Merryman and David A Newman, writers of 2011 film Friends with Benefits.

Niija Kuykendall and Julia Spiro are overseeing for the studio. Sources say part of the inspiration for the project was one of Spiro’s own bad dates.

The rom-com with action elements centres on two people in Los Angeles who go on a Tinder date that spirals into a night of one disaster after disaster and, of course, they fall for one another in the process, said The Hollywood Reporter.

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Niija Kuykendall and Julia Spiro are overseeing for the studio. Sources say part of the inspiration for the project was one of Spiro’s own bad dates.

Merryman and Newman recently wrote Lionsgate’s remake of the family comedy Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the US. They also have revenge comedy The Ex Games set up at CBS Films.

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