He is attached to direct an adaptation of the ‘Man of the People’ episode of the Reply All podcast, which will star Robert Downey Jr. and his being produced by Team Downey Productions with Annapurna.
Downey Jr and Linklater moved fast with the film, as the episode only aired on 17 January. It doesn’t yet have a title, although ‘Man of the People’ has a nice ring to it.
Richard Linklater is best known for his high school/coming of age movies Boyhood, Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!!
and romantic trilogy Before, but his next film will see him back in the vein of con man picture Bernie.