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When The Kitchen Sink made the 2010 Black List, little did writer Oren Uziel know that it would soon sell to a Sony Pictures executive that wanted to set out and make his own movies. Now there's more good news for this sci-fi/horror/comedy as Superbad star Jonah Hill wants to make The Kitchen Sink his feature film debut as a director.

Hill is now in contract negotiations to make the film for producer Matt Tolmach, the guy I mentioned up above that used to work for Sony. When Tolmach left his day job he grabbed the rights to Uziel's Black Listed script and started developing it. "I know from experience how quickly scripts either get bought or not, and it often has no bearing on whether they're good or not," Tolmach told Mike Fleming at Deadline. "This one is like the talented kid passed over in the first round of the draft."

The Kitchen Sink sounds like a mash-up of The Breakfast Club and several horror and sci-fi tropes. It's about regular high schoolers who are on the run for their lives from zombies, who then wind up being chased by vampires -- and then a bright light comes down from the sky and suddenly aliens are added to the mayhem. The teens decide that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they make an alliance with the zombies and the vampires to fight the extraterrestrials. I admit, part of me would like to see how the writer pulled this one off.

So, what now? Hill is going to be starring in the movie version of 21 Jump Street real soon, so don't expect The Kitchen Sink to be anywhere close to happening until later this year. Plus, I'm sure that it would give confidence to Columbia Pictures (where Tolmach has his development deal) if him and Hill can attach another star to their monster mash-up project.