Hollywood Ink: Idiot-ic Paul Rudd Needs a Few Leading Ladies

· Paul Rudd has agreed to star in the ensemble comedy My Idiot Brother, to be directed by Jesse Peretz and co-written with his sister Evgenia Peretz and her husband David Schisgall. Family affair! In more ways than one: Rudd will play the title character, an "idealist dealing with his overbearing mother who crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters." Laughs, catharsis and a hell of a female cast follow; Amy Adams has to turn up here somewhere along the line, right? [THR]

What do Brad Pitt, Dustin Lance Black, Steven Zaillian, Gong Li and Frederick Wiseman have in common? They've all got projects in the news as Hollywood Ink continues after the jump.

· Brad Pitt's production company Plan B has joined with Indian media giant Reliance to option the acclaimed new novel The Imperfectionists. The Tom Rachman book focuses on the staff of an English-language newspaper in Rome; because if there's anything American moviegoers are obsessed with these days, it's editors and journalists putting out a newspaper. Not knocking the book! Or journalists! Just saying. I mean, come on, we're about as glamorous as tree bark. [Deadline]

· More Pitt: He and director Bennett Miller are getting yet another rewrite on Moneyball, the Michael Lewis adaptation that reportedly begins filming next month. For old times' sake Sony brought in Steven Zaillian -- who contributed the original rewrite that Steven Soderbergh reportedly went nuts on and that Aaron Sorkin dropped in to clean up himself. If it weren't for MGM, this might be the innermost circle of development hell. [Deadline]

· Gong Li and Andy Lau are set to star in a Chinese remake of Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt's 2000 hit What Women Want. There are a thousand satirical political statements this film could make; I imagine it will make exactly none of them. [THR]

· Dustin Lance Black is expected to follow up his directorial debut What's Wrong With Virginia with the graphic-novel adaptation 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man. It's pretty much what it sounds like: A boy grows and grows until he's three-story-tall man, which causes a little angst. His experience is recounted through -- wait for it -- the three stories of his mother, wife and daughter. Clever, etc. [THR]

· High-five to Frederick Wiseman, the workplace-verite trailblazer whose latest documentary, Boxing Gym, will be jointly released this fall by his own Zipporah Films and mTuckman media. The doc follows the comings, goings and community around an Austin, Texas, gym; it premiered last month at Cannes and opens Stateside in October. [Zipporah Films]