His exec-produced show
Hung is doing well on HBO, but it's been five years since
Alexander Payne had a feature in theatres. (It really doesn't seem that long since
Sideways.) He was going to return with an adaptation of the novel
Downsizing, an ambitious project in which a man purposely shrinks himself to be like a little person in order to have an easier life. Crazy tale, but there was a great cast attached: Paul Giamatti,