HBO announced this week that they have tapped Ben Stiller to star, direct, and executive produce a comedy pilot written by acclaimed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. The show, titled All Talk, is described as “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent.”
Filming for the pilot is tentatively scheduled to begin in the fall of 2012, and though we can’t confirm where it will be shot, we know it won’t be in D.C.
All Talk is set in Forest Hills (in the Washington D.C. area), which is where Foer grew up, but the show will be filmed elsewhere due to D.C.’s lack of film incentives.
“[HBO] had expressed some interest in filming [in Washington D.C.],” said Lesie Green, the spokesperson of D.C.’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development. “The bottom line was they were looking for an incentive and we just couldn’t give them what they wanted.”
Another upcoming HBO show, Veep, was also set in D.C. but was primarily filmed in Baltimore, with a few exterior shots filmed in the District occasionally. The Film Office is hoping that All Talk will do something similar. “We’re hoping to get a few days,” Green added.
