LOUIS CK WRITES WITH CHRIS ROCK

Comedian Louis C.K. star of HBO’s Lucky Louie teamed up with fellow comic Chris Rock to write the screenplay for I Think I Love My Wife. Loosely based on the French film Chloe In the Afternoon about a happily married Parisian man who’s old acquaintance can not be forgot, the two comedians wrote from their own personal take on love and marriage.

Louis talks about how he came to collaborate with Rock.

“Since we’re both comedians we just sort of shared that sense of humor when we do it for each other. But as far as the idea for this movie, this is just something Chris saw this Chloe In The Afternoon and it just struck him. We only used a seed of that story and he asked me to watch. I actually watched it with my wife and we both thought the idea of Chris being in a movie like this is really fascinating. So Chris and I sat down and wrote it together in New York.”

In the French version director Eric Rohmer takes on the temptations of the other woman which is what married with children comedians Louis and Chris also set out to do.

“I mean to me this movie isn’t about infidelity, this movie is about testing one’s ability to stay with the toughest thing in the world which is a marriage with kids. And a test of that, that’s hard and that’ll always be hard.”

Louis C.K. and Rock have worked together before. His writing on the Chris Rock Show earned him three Emmy nominations where he created the comedy sketch Pootie Tang which later became a feature film directed by Louis starring Chris Rock.