Saturday Evening Dwell and Elf actor Will Ferrell is ready to star in a brand new comedy for twentieth Century Studios titled Road Justice. He can even produce the movie, which has Ferrell enjoying a Soiled Harry kind who goes about taking justice into his personal fingers.
The movie is predicated on an unique thought by Dave Callaham, and it will likely be directed by Peter Atencio, a comedy veteran at present in publish on Legendary’s forthcoming live-action/animation hybrid Animal Pals.
Callaham, the author behind Shang-Chi and the Oscar-nominated Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, penned the script on spec — promoting it in a big seven-figure deal, in response to our sources — and can function govt producer.
Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum will produce for Gloria Sanchez Productions, with David Koplan additionally aboard to provide.
Coming off of roles in comedies just like the Oscar-winning Barbie, Strays and Emmy-winning TV film Quiz Girl, Ferrell will subsequent be seen starring reverse Reese Witherspoon in Nick Stoller’s wedding ceremony comedy You’re Cordially Invited, which debuts on Prime Video on January 30.
Additionally upcoming is the Netflix comedy sequence Golf, which he co-created with Ramy Youssef and Josh Rabinowitz and stars in reverse the previous. Netflix doc Will & Harper, of which he’s producer and co-subject, has been nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award and 4 Critics’ Alternative Documentary Awards since its September debut.
by way of: Deadline
