Man, I can’t wait until the second season of Californication starts back up here next week, the only still-running show other than The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm that I follow nowadays. David Duchovny’s Hank Moody is a rude, sardonic, immoral sex maniac, yet he’s so funny, so complex, so relatably dysfunctional, so authentic, it seems like this was the part Duchovny has been waiting for his whole life.

I’ve always enjoyed Duchovny though, even in his many missteps, and while some of his riskier feature length ventures fall short (House of D), he always seems to quickly make up for them with something delightfully refreshing (The TV Set). And since his last movie, The X Files: I Want to Believe, seems to have fallen short (I’ve still been too afraid to watch it), he may be making up for it with something delightfully refreshing once again.

The movie is a dramedy called The Joneses and will co-star Demi Moore, the up-and-comer Amber Heard, and Gary Cole. Derrick Borte will direct from his own script this film which is a social commentary that “centers on a picture-perfect family that moves into a suburban neighborhood and immediately becomes the toast of the town, loved and envied by all. But the reality is they are a commissioned fake family put together by a marketing company as a way to introduce new luxury-level products to neighborhoods around the world. Duchovny plays the fake father, a man undergoing a crisis of confidence because he is living a lie. Moore is the mother, a career-driven woman who struggles with her growing feelings toward her fake husband. Heard plays the fake daughter who is trying to seduce her fake dad while looking for a rich man. Cole plays a neighbor.”

This sounds great. I can see it now. Fake wife falls for fake husband. Fake daughter seduces fake father. Somebody walks in on fake daughter and fake husband. They can’t say anything, because they are contractually obligated. Awkward situations ensue. Hooray for misunderstandings.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter