One of the memorable events from this weekend’s Emmy Awards ceremony was the surprise appearance of 30 Rock actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, who was severely injured in a road accident in June last year. He’s well on the road to recovery and is now lining up his first job since the incident – Morgan is in talks to join the Ice Cube/Charlie Day comedy film **Fist Fight{
The New Line comedy has a script from Van Robichaux and Evan Susser, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Richie Keen planning to direct. The basic concept finds Day as a mild-mannered English teacher who must man up when a colleague at his school who thinks he’s trying to get him fired challenges him to a good old-fashioned punch-up. Unless he somehow gets out of it, or manages to learn some amazing ability, we’d suggest this ends with a Charlie Day pancake.
Morgan, who is playing the school’s gym coach, joins other recent hires including Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris and** 22 Jump Street**’s Jillian Bell. The comedian was last seen in Chris Rock’s Top Five, and also had a role in the long-delayed, controversially released Accidental Love, AKA David O. Russell comedy Nailed. Fist Fight will mark his return to cinemas.