Jason Bateman’s BAD WORDS Red Band Trailer

Here we have the first red band trailer for Jason Bateman‘s directorial debut, Bad Words.  The film stars Bateman as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old man who weasels his way into a children’s spelling bee. The role looks to be something of a departure for Bateman, who normally plays the soft nice guy.  In this one, it appears that he’s going full on dickhead, and I couldn’t be more excited to witness it.

The film also stars Rohan Chand, Kathryn Hahn, Ben Falcone, Philip Baker Hall, and Allison Janney, and is set to hit theaters sometime next March.  Hit the jump for the trailer and synopsis.

Jason Bateman (Identity Thief) makes his feature directorial debut with the subversive comedy Bad Words. Mr. Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. Contest officials, outraged parents, and overly ambitious 8th graders are no match for Guy, as he ruthlessly crushes their dreams of victory and fame. As a reporter (Kathryn Hahn of We’re the Millers) attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward 10-year-old Chaitanya (Rohan Chand of Homeland), who is completely unfazed by Guy’s take-no-prisoners approach to life.