Brandon Routh Is Out Of Order In New Comedy

You know that old sitcom chestnut about the teenager who asks out two girls, and then tries to keep both dates at once? That fabled buffoon has nothing on John Slater, the lawyer played by Brandon Routh in the upcoming comedy Out Of Order.

Slater is a big-shot lawyer…well, he wishes he was. His stalled career and the dumpy firm he works for have turned off his snobby supermodel girlfriend, who figures she can do better. John wants to prove he can, and manages to finally land a position at one of the biggest firms in the city. There’s just one problem…he kinda hasn’t quit his old job yet. His boss had a heart attack and it was the man’s dying wish that John take this one last case. Well, no problem — he’ll just take both cases at once. But OF COURSE they’re the same case, on opposing sides of the courtroom.

So John has to invent Jack Slater, a different persona, to keep up the charade. There is no trailer yet, and very few screenshots, so our question is: how does this guy play two lawyers at the same time in the same room?

Out Of Order was directed by Guy Jacobson (Priority Films) and co-written by Jacobson and Megan Freels Johnston. “Out of Order was born from my years in Big Law,” said Jacobson. “It’s a return to the kind of physical, character-driven comedy we don’t see enough of today, part My Cousin Vinny, part Mrs. Doubtfire, with a dash of Office Space and a sprinkle of A Fish Called Wanda. I wanted to make something gloriously ridiculous but grounded in real emotion.”

This has a pretty stacked cast for something relatively indie: in addition to Routh, cast members include the likes of Brooke Shields, Sam Huntington, Luis Guzmán, Michael Potts, Sandra Bernhard, Tao Okamoto, Krysta Rodriguez, and Asher Grodman. Out of Order debuted at the Chelsea Film Festival on Opening Night; a distribution deal has yet to be announced.