Bauer Martinez Studios hashired Brian Levant to direct the comedy Ex Games and is introducing the picture to buyers at AFM.

The company swooped on WillFetters' screenplay about three men with failed marriages who plot to marry offtheir wives to avoid paying alimony, only for one of them to discover that heis still in love.

Philippe Martinez willproduce for Bauer Martinez Studios' Lucky 50 Productions along with UndergroundFilms' Nicholas Osborne and Trevor Engelson. Shooting is set to begin inCharleston, South Carolina, in February 2007.

'There's a fine linebetween comedy and pain and this is one of the funniest scripts I've read inyears,' said Levant, whose credits include The Flintstones and Are We There Yet'. 'I have been happily married for more than 30years but all of my brothers have gone through horrific divorces so I canpartly relate.'