Aziz Ansari will make his feature directorial debut in the upcoming untitled Searchlight Pictures comedy-drama film. It will be a film adaption of the book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by surgeon Atul Gawande. Ansari will co-star, produce, and write the screenplay for the film adaptation of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Bill Murray will star in Aziz Ansari’s feature film, where he’ll make his directorial debut. Ansari created the popular Netflix comedy series Master of None. Gawande describes his book as being about aging anxieties regarding death and doctors’ tendencies to fall back on false hope. It has reflections and personal stories. The book also explores the limitations and failures of modern medicine at the end of a person’s life. It’s unknown who Ansari or Murray will play in the film.
Bill Murray Will Bring His Old School Comedy to Aziz Ansari’s New School Comedy
Bill Murray first gained attention when he was on The National Lampoon Radio Hour from 1973 to 1974. He went on to be a favored cast member on the variety show Saturday Night Live from 1977 to 1980. He went on to have box office comedy hits like Stripes, Caddyshack, Scrooged, Groundhog’s Day, Ghostbusters, and Ghostbusters II. His nearly five-decade-long career has secured him as a comic legend and a Hollywood household name. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End seems like a tough story to make a film adaptation, but Murray and Ansari are on it! Murray has played in comedy-drama films before, so this will be no problem for him. Aziz Ansari has shown with Master of None that he can have a good mix of serious and funny content; his feature directorial debut will be a show of his talents.
Ansari has a blossoming comedy career, and Bill Murray still finds roles that keep adding to his already impressive legacy. The film adaptation of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is set to be released theatrically in 2023.
