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Robin's world's greatest

License to wed: Awful

Robin Williams is making a new film.

Ordinarily that would fill us with dread. Hell, we've had to sit through Licence to Wed and RV, we know just how bad it can be.

But Williams may be about to rediscover the funny.

The reason we're excited? Bob Goldthwait has written and will direct new film, World's Greatest Dad.

You probably remember Bob as Bobcat, the screeching one in the Police Academy films. However, he's out those days behind him – well, his throat probably couldn't take it – and turned into a very decent filmmaker.

His last film was Sleeping Dogs, which you can still find on DVD, and it is probably the best romantic comedy ever made about bestiality. Sort of. It's actually surprisingly sweet and honest and stuff. The dog incident is just a plot device. But we digress...

Well, sort of. World's Greatest Dad actually has a pretty twisted central story of its own. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Williams will play Lance, a high school poetry teacher who covers his son's freak death – in a, er, self-pleasuring accident – with a faked suicide note.

When the note is published, it becomes a sensation, so Lance revives his writing career with a faked journal.

Yep, really good taste, Bob. Bring it on!

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