Elizabeth Banks Producing A Capella Comedy

Universal Pictures has acquired the distribution rights to a new project from Gold Circle Films called Pitch Perfect, Variety reports.

Little is known about the plot, except that it is a comedy based on a novel by Mickey Rapkin and is set in the world of college a capella.

Pitch Perfect will be scripted by 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon and directed by Avenue Q director Jason Moore. Elizabeth Banks and husband Max Handelman will produce the film via their Brownstone Productions company.

No release date for the film has been set thus far.

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