Danny McBride is a big bully. We know this for certain because when Empire visited the set of Land Of The Lost, McBride stole our lunch money and threatened us with a punch in the giblets if we told our mum. Kidding! (In the interest of avoiding a libel claim, we must make it clear that he did neither of those things.) But what better way to introduce the fact that McBride has just sold a new comedy project on the subject of bullies to production company Mandate?
The idea, currently and unsurprisingly titled Bullies, follows two brothers who have intimidated and harassed people all their lives, but who finally get their comeuppance. While McBride supplied the initial spark, the actual script will be penned by Yes Man writers Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul.
There’s no word yet on whether McBride will star as one of the brothers, though you’ve got to figure he’ll have the first stab at a lead role given that he kicked the whole thing off. He’ll also be overseeing the development of the script with his Rough House production partners David Gordon Green (who recently directed McBride in Your Highness), Jody Hill and Matt Reilly.
Since it’s early days, we have no idea when this one will start shooting, assuming it makes it out of the long trudge to the screen, but with McBride attached, we’re already interested.
He'll next be heard, rather than seen, in Despicable Me and aside from the second series of his HBO Show Eastbound & Down, he'll appear in Green's Your Highness, now due in 2011.