Director–writer: “If you check the blacklist, as well as talk to agents and writers around town, there were a whole slew of meta comedies written for stars to play themselves, and those have since been scuttled or shifted to streaming, perhaps after Unbearable Weight tanked.
“There was one written for Mickey Rourke to play himself and there are a half dozen of these meta pieces. A few spec scripts were penned for Liam Neeson to spoof his image, now on the backburner after Lionsgate failed to open yet another comedy. The marketing over there is the worst.”