Despite the resounding critical drubbing that their first effort received, Tammy pair Melissa McCarthy and co-writer/director/husband Ben Falcone are trying again with Michelle Darnell. They’ve now hired X-Men: Days Of Future Past’s Peter Dinklage to co-star alongside McCarthy in the comedy.
Falcone will once more handle the directing chores for the film, which he co-wrote with McCarthy and Steve Mallory based on an idea by the actresses. McCarthy will play the title character, a former big shot businesswoman whose career and reputation are damaged when she’s sent to prison for insider trading.
Upon her release, she attempts to rebrand herself as a loveable heroine. But not everyone she cheated and hurt is ready to forgive her. According to Variety, Dinklage has scored the role of a man who is her main antagonist, a part that has apparently been the subject of an extensive casting search among performers of both sexes, with people such as Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm and even Oprah Winfrey considered.
Universal is backing this one, and the film hits here on May 6 next year. Dinklage, who returns in his iconic TV role as Tyrion Lannister for season five of Game Of Thrones in April, will also be seen this year in Adam Sandler’s action comedy Pixels. The video game combat pic will arrive in the UK on August 14.