EXCLUSIVE: More big names are joining the large ensemble cast 
of Netflix’s limited series Wet Hot American Summer. I hear Chris Pine, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig and Jason Schwartzman have been tapped for guest starring/recurring roles in the eight-part series from Michael Showalter and David Wain.
They join some 20 returning cast members from the movie, including Wiig’s SNL co-star Amy Poehler, Showalter, Elizabeth Banks, H. Jon Benjamin, Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Judah Friedlander, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni, A.D. Miles, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon and Kevin Sussman, as well as another dozen of newcomers including Michaela Watkins, Hamm’s Mad Men co-star John Slattery, Josh Charles, Randall Park, Jayma Mays, Lake Bell, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Richard Schiff.
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I hear Hamm will play a secret spy, Wiig is playing a snobby counselor at the preppy rival camp Camp Tigerclaw, Schwartzman is the boy’s camp head counselor while Pine’s character is described as mysterious. Netflix declined comment. The 2001 cult film was set on the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981; the series is set on the first day. Neflix just released a first teaser for the project, set to debut in the summer.
Showalter and Wain — who wrote the movie — created the limited series, with Wain reprising directing duties and Showalter serving as showrunner. The two are executive producing alongside the film’s producer Howard Bernstein, Jonathan Stern and Peter Principato.
Pine, repped by CAA, John Carrabino Management and attorney Michael Gendler, co-stars in Into thTe Woods and was in Sundance for Z For Zachariah. He next will be seen in Finest Hours. Bridesmaids star Wiig has just been confirmed as one of the leads of the Ghostbusters reboot.
So gosh darn excited about this!
When the premier date is announced the first thing I’m going to do is request that day off from work!
Ms. Wiig is dangerously overexposed right now.
Some truth there. The modus seems to be whatever they offer me I’ll take it. On the one hand. On the other smartly handled she may be the celebrity paradigm of the future. Her career does seem to be on fire but sideways as opposed to onward and upward. Very special persona, amazing and unique talent, a beautiful woman, she would benefit from real specialized attention from a power perch player. But she obviously follows her own muse and that’s cool too and no doubt part of what makes her tick in so many different entertaining ways. Anybody who’s successful in casting her in whatever part knows exactly what they’re doing because she picks up the slack in any shortcomings that they fear their material may have. You get the impression that, in terms of her career, she operates by instinct also interesting. As an aside David Wain is no dummy when it comes to casting. Look at most of these cast members then; then look at them today.
She is 41 years old, after all. Make hay while the sun shjines.
All true, but appearing in the failed Spoils of Babylon and everything else tied into SNL graduates isn’t wise. She frequently revisits SNL and it feels like she’s lost and not left that show behind. She’s taking everything and after a few years will star in a sitcom, but it’s not special to see her anymore and she does feel too omnipresent with every comedy announcement and indie flick featuring her.
If most of the cast from the movie is coming back for the series, is Bradley Cooper coming back too? And having sex in the tool shed again???? LOL