One of my favorite comedians Louis C.K. is getting back in the directors chair.

Louis C.K. has directed one of my favorite movies of all time, Pootie Tang, and I admit it wasn’t until years later that he both wrote and directed it.

Louis has been wearing the production hats for his show on FX Louie, and that show is nothing short of comedic brilliance.

In addition to running his own show, doing stand up in clubs, filming stand up specials, he still shows up on other TV shows like Parks & Recreation, and films like Blue Jasmine, and American Hustle.

Needless to say I’m looking forward to this upcoming project, I’m certain his experience writing and directing Louie will make I’m a Cop all the more awesome.

Louis C.K., the comedian who has conquered he small screen with his low-key, angst-ridden FX show Louie, is returning to the land of movies.

And mirroring Louie, C.K. will perform triple-duties for the film — writing, directing and starring in the indie I’m a Cop, which is being produced by heavyweight producer Scott Rudin.

Rudin is producing with Dave Becky and Blair Breard, the latter an exec producer on C.K.’s Louie as well as a couple of the comedian’s specials, including the upcoming Louis C.K. Live From the Comedy Store.

The script tells of a depressed middle-aged man who is a volunteer police officer living in the shadow of his mother, a highly decorated retired officer. When she dies, her continued influence forces him to become a real police officer, which is something he never wanted to be.

C.K. last directed 2001’s Pooty Tang, a Chris Rock comedy that he also wrote. The experience did not end well — Paramount removed him from the movie during postproduction — but in April he told The Hollywood Reporter that he had learned much in the intervening years and considered it a challenge he was ready to tackle.

“I don’t feel like I need anyone to tell me anything with a TV show because I know exactly what I’m doing, but I’d be arrogant to think that I can take someone’s $8 million and just turn in a movie,” he said. “Movies are different. There’s a permanency to them.

“I was dealing with people every day whose pressures I didn’t understand, and I wasn’t very nice about how I said no to them. I put myself in a position I didn’t have to be in. A lot of what makes this kind of stuff work is empathy.”

Rudin is coming off working with C.K.’s pal Rock, having been a producer on the comedian’s own return to directing and writing a feature with the well-reviewed Top Five.

FX’s Louie, for which C.K. has won two of his three Emmys, returned for its fifth season in April.

Source: THR