Downsizing (2017)

[Oscar Rothman]

Christoph Waltz and Hong Chau are on board to join Matt Damon and Reese Witherspoon in Alexander Payne’s upcoming dramedy “Downsizing.”

Payne is co-writing with Jim Taylor with Paramount distributing.

The film will mark the third time Paramount and Payne have worked together, following“Election” and “Nebraska.”

“Downsizing” tells the story of an Omaha man who joins the throngs of people undergoing a new process that reduces people to a tiny fraction of their size before moving to one of the many communities of small people that are sprouting up around the world.


Matt Damon to Star in Alexander Payne’s Satire ‘Downsizing’

The film will be produced by Payne and Mark Johnson and will begin production this spring. Taylor and Jim Burke are exec producing.

The film is expected to bow in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Variety