‘Fifty First Dates’ Director Tackling Dave Bautista Action-Comedy for STX (Exclusive)

Peter Segal, the director of the Get Smart movie and films such as Fifty First Dates, has been tapped to helm My Spy, STXfilms’ action-comedy starring Dave Bautista.The move keeps Segal in the fold of STXfilms, a division of Robert Simonds’ global media company STX Entertainment, as the filmmaker is already prepping Second Act, a comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, for a Nov.

21 release.My Spy will tell the story of a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.Jon and Erich Hoeber wrote the script….

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