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Rashida Jones, Will McCormack Adapt ‘The Invite’, Discuss Quincy Documentary.

7/14/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack wrote and produced the comedy “The Invite.”
The story follows an unhappy married couple who host an upstairs couple for dinner and adapts the 2020 Spanish film “The People Upstairs.”
Rashida Jones and Will McCormack call partnership an “open relationship” and act out scenes while writing.
Rashida Jones says documentary about father Quincy Jones shows his honesty and a near-death moment filmed at age 82.

History

Historical Context

In March 1996, director Mike Nichols released The Birdcage, a remake of the 1978 film La Cage aux Folles, itself based on a 1973 play. The comedy topped the box office for three weeks and grossed $185 million worldwide, showing Hollywood’s profit in foreign-script adaptations. That precedent underlies today’s Rashida Jones-produced remake “The Invite,” adapting Spain’s 2020 comedy The People Upstairs.

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Story summary

Rashida Jones and Will McCormack wrote and produced the comedy “The Invite.”
The story follows an unhappy married couple who host an upstairs couple for dinner and adapts the 2020 Spanish film “The People Upstairs.”
Rashida Jones and Will McCormack call partnership an “open relationship” and act out scenes while writing.
Rashida Jones says documentary about father Quincy Jones shows his honesty and a near-death moment filmed at age 82.

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