Here’s a comic team-up we're looking forward to: Warner Bros. has just snapped up the rights to a film package that includes Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as its leads, and with Jay Roach directing.
The film was shopped around Hollywood by powerhouse agency CAA on Friday, and Warners’ executives won the chance to make it after, we assume, fighting off other studio bods with those giant cotton-bud style staffs from Gladiators. As for a title? No one’s letting that little nugget slip yet. But we do know the script, penned by The Other Guys co-writer Chris Henchy and Shawn Harwell, who has written some truly inspired lunacy for Danny McBride and Ben Best’s series Eastbound & Down, follows two rival presidential candidates.
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, the film is being aimed at a 2012 release, which just so happens to be the year of the next US presidential election. The only problem we can see with this strategy is that most of the real-life candidates are going to be funnier than anything committed to celluloid.
Roach is no stranger to political filmmaking, having directed acclaimed HBO TV docudrama recount. Ferrell meanwhile does a killer impersonation of George W Bush. As for Galifianakis, is it too much to hope that this collaboration results in a Between Two Ferns with Ferrell?