Ben Stiller is set to star alongside Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris and Andy Roddick for pickleball comedy.

After their collaboration on Nutcrackers, Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Rivulet Films will reteam for the pickleball comedy The Dink.

Jake Johnson has nabbed the leading role as he plays a washed-up tennis pro who, to save a club in crisis and win his father’s respect, does the one thing he swore he’d never do: play pickleball. The cast includes Mary Steenburgen and Ed Harris, while Stiller and former tennis champion Andy Roddick will have key supporting roles.

This year, pickleball was named the fastest-growing sport in America for the third consecutive year, and an estimated 36 million people have picked up the game as its popularity has continued to grow. The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in Los Angeles in November

Stiller and Rivulet’s most recent collaboration, Nutcrackers directed by David Gordon Green, just opened the Toronto International Film Festival where it sold for eight figures to Hulu in a competitive situation.

Source: Press Release