The film is to be directed by Phil Alden Robinson (The Sum of All Fears, Sneakers) from a screenplay by Daniel Taplitz (Red Dog). ‘The Angriest Man in Brooklyn’ is a project of Cargo Entertainment, Landscape Entertainment and Force Majeure. Filming is expected to start this September in Brooklyn, New York.
The film is a high concept comedy which tells the story of a stand-in doctor who mistakenly tells an obnoxious patient he has 90 minutes to live. The medic tries desperately to locate the man after her comments sends him on a contrite tour of the city to right all the wrongs in his life.