Veteran television actor Ed O’Neill, Peacemaker’s Danielle Brooks, and John Higgins, part of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy group, have joined Cameron Diaz in Bad Day , an action comedy Jake Szymanski is directing for Netflix.
Written by Laura Solon, the original script centers on a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.
The project has been described as a comedic version of Falling Down , the 1993 drama directed by Joel Schumacher that starred Michael Douglas as a man who hits his breaking point while trying to get to his daughter’s birthday.
O’Neill is playing the mom’s curmudgeonly father-in-law who seems intent on making everyone’s life miserable.
Brooks is a grumpy NYPD detective trying to track down the mom,