EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed Compulsive Liar , a comedy package from Academy Award-nominated The Big Sick writers Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani . The Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Eternals star is attached to headline with 21 Laps and Gaumont producing.

While details for Compulsive Liar are being kept under wraps, we understand the project is based on the Quebec, Canadian comedy Menteur, which was written by Émile Gaudreault, Éric K. Boulianne, and Sébastien Ravary, directed by Gaudreault, and produced by Film Mytho Inc. Menteur follows Simon who is an inveterate liar. His family and colleagues organize an intervention, which turns into a confrontation and Simon denies everything. The next day, he wakes up in a world where all his lies have com

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