MUMBAI: Ron Shelton has been signed by David Friendly to direct Q School, a golf comedy based on a script he co-wrote with John Norville.
It is being rumoured that Dennis Quaid and Tim Allen have shown interest to star in the project. The indie aims to start shooting in the spring.
The film is said to be a comedy in which a group of hopefuls battle it out in a competition to make the PGA Tour, with both their game and their personal lives sometimes ending up in the drink along the way.
Shelton made his directorial debut more than 20 years ago with 1988‘s landmark hardball comedy Bull Durham and followed it up with the Woody Harrelson-Wesley Snipes basketball film White Men Can‘t Jump four years later.
Shelton also directed a boxing comedy Play It to the Bone. He also did a a cop comedy with Harrison Ford
called Hollywood Homicide in 2003.
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