Ben Stiller Won't Direct 'Severance' Season 3, Plans World War II Survival Movie: 'You Only Have So Much Time' Ethan ShanfeldAugust 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM Ben Stiller is stepping away from the director's chair for "Severance" Season 3, he revealed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
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Ethan ShanfeldAugust 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Ben Stiller is stepping away from the director's chair for "Severance" Season 3, he revealed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
The executive producer and primary director of the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama is currently planning its hotly anticipated third season. But, for the first time, he won't be helming any episodes.
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Instead, Stiller will shoot a World War II survival movie in the spring, which "tells the true story of a downed airman in occupied France and how he got involved with the French Resistance." Plus, he has production on the upcoming "Meet the Parents" sequel "Focker-in-Law," and he recently finished a documentary about his parents, "Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost." He's expected to lead a music industry dramedy in development at HBO titled "The Band." And per the L.A. Times, he also wants to make a movie based on Rachel Maddow's podcast "Bag Man," about the bribery scandal plaguing Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew.
"These things take time to come together," Stiller told the publication, "and the older you get, the more you realize that you only have so much time."
"Severance" premiered its second season in January amid a massive, global press tour. With 27 Emmy nominations, the workplace thriller became the most-nominated series of the year. When Stiller and series star Adam Scott sat down with Variety for an Emmys cover story in May, the "Severance" writers' room was underway in Los Angeles, with Stiller flying to the West Coast every 10 days or so to work on the series.
In his interview with the L.A. Times, Stiller also talked about a recent dinner he had with Al Pacino, who he says is a big fan of "Severance."
"I'd love to work with him," Stiller said. Might he show up in "Severance"? Said Stiller: "That's not the first time that's been spoken of … I mean, you never know."
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