Dumb and Dumber co-director Bobby Farrelly is set to helm the upcoming teen road trip comedy, Driver’s Ed. The movie comes from Jonas Pate, who developed Thomas Moffett’s original screenplay with Jennifer Pate. Farrelly is also He is also currently attached to direct Amazon MGM Studios’ family vacation comedy movie titled Sporkinfeesten.
Deadline reports that Driver’s Ed “Centers on teens who steal their school’s driver’s ed car to go on a road trip to help a high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back,” reads the initial synopsis.
Driver’s Ed is produced by Jonas Pate, Jennifer Pate, and David Stone, with Stuart Ford. “When the Pates and David Stone brought us this unbelievably charming script, we immediately saw the crowd-pleasing potential of the film with audiences of all ages,” Ford said in a statement. “To now have a director with Bobby’s amazing commercial track record onboard puts Driver’s Ed on a really exciting trajectory towards production early next year.”
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