Jack Black and director Jared Hess are reteaming to make Micronations, a comedy starring Black as a lovable oddball who lives amid a world of “do-it-yourself-countries,” i.e., backyards that have been declared their own countries.
Micronations is the first title from Hess, Brandt Andersen and Dave Hunter’s new production and financing banner, Buffalo Film Company. The project, along with news of Buffalo Film, was announced at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.Hess said in a statement, “Once I learned that there were people within the United States who have created their very own countries, I knew I had to make a movie about them,”
