Susan Stroman, Mel Brook’s collaborator on the musical stage version of his 1967 movie The Producers, directed this 2005 film version of their Tony-winning Broadway triumph. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick reprise their stage roles, but Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman are imported to add some Hollywood sales clout – Ferrell as Franz Liebkind, and Thurman as the ultra-shapely Ulla.