Craig Gillespie To Direct Will Ferrell Comedy 'The Flamingo Thief'

2011 wasn't kind to Craig Gillespie. His remake of "Fright Night" was unfairly ignored (c'mon, it featured a pretty awesomely smarmy Colin Farrell and was a bit of goofy fun with some decent thrills) and then in the fall, he dropped out of the forever developing "Pride And Prejudice And Zombies" (and we wonder about that movie ever getting made considering audiences didn't seem to care about "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"). But, it's summer 2012 and Gillespie now has something brighter on the horizon.

Variety reports that he will take the helm of "The Flamingo Thief," a comedy that has Will Ferrell attached to star.

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