Longtime Late Night with Seth Meyers staff writer Mike Scollins is headed to the big screen.
Greenwich Entertainment announced today that it has acquired the North American rights to Brian, the coming-of-age comedy that marks Scollins’ feature screenwriting debut. The film is slated for a 2027 theatrical release.
Scollins celebrated the news on Instagram, writing, “Can’t wait for everyone to see this movie!!! I wish IG let me tag more people!!”
The deal follows a successful festival debut for Brian, which premiered at SXSW in March to enthusiastic reviews. The film currently boasts a 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Not bad for a writer whose jokes are regularly torn apart by his boss on national television.
Scollins, who has written for Late Night since 2016, is a frequent target of Meyers’ recurring “Surprise Inspection” segment. He’s also known to viewers for “The Scollywood Minute” and his ill-fated decision to once wear a tank top to a work meeting.
For Brian, Scollins teamed up with his Late Night bosses in a different capacity. Meyers and Late Night showrunner Mike Shoemaker served as executive producers through their Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions banner, alongside the company’s Jason Carden. Scollins also executive produced the film, which marks actor Will Ropp’s feature directorial debut.
The comedy stars Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends, American Born Chinese) as a high school student struggling with an anxiety disorder who decides to run for class president in hopes of getting closer to a teacher he has a crush on. Natalie Morales plays the teacher, William H. Macy portrays Brian’s therapist, and Randall Park and Edi Patterson play his parents. Actor Will Ropp directed the film, marking his feature directorial debut.
Scollins isn’t the first Late Night writer to make the leap to feature films. Fellow staffer Seth Reiss co-wrote the Writers Guild Award-nominated 2022 film The Menu with Last Week Tonight writer Will Tracy, and went on to pen 2025’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.
Meyers, for his part, has been a supporter of Scollins’ movie ambitions from the start—even if admitting it was painful.
“Mike Scollins wrote a movie,” the Late Night host wrote on Instagram when the project was first announced last year. “It kills me to say, but it’s really good.”
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