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The Other Guys
Release Date: August 6, 2010 (North America)
SubscribeGenres: Action, Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13
Production Phase: Released
Studio: Sony Pictures Production Company: Mosaic Media Group
Who's In It: Mark Wahlberg (TBA), Will Ferrell (TBA), Michael Keaton (TBA), Eva Mendes (TBA), Damon Wayans Jr. (TBA)
Who's Making It: Adam McKay (Director), Chris Henchy (Screenwriter), Adam McKay (Screenwriter),
Premise: Two of New York City's not-as-cool cops have the ambition to be action heroes, just not the skill to back it up.... More »
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
You can now add Andy Buckley (David Wallace in NBC's The Office) and Ben Schwartz (Mystery Team) to the cast of The Other Guys.
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and Steve Coogan have joined the cast. The first two will play so-called supercops who are the envy of the department that Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's character are a part of; Coogan will play the film's villain.
Filming starts tomorrow.
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Monday, September 14, 2009
Don't call it The B Team anymore because it's gone through a change of title. Call the film The Other Guys from now on.
Joining Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are new cast additions Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Damon Wayans Jr.
- The Hollywood Reporter. Comment on this Scoop (0)Tuesday, June 2, 2009
During his interview promoting Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell spoke with Collider about his next project, The B Team. Ferrell described the movie as "kind of our version of a buddy-cop comedy...we're basically desk cops who don't ever get in on the action and Wahlberg's character is like 'This isn't why we became cops.'" Oh, what the heck, here's Ferrell talking about it in his own words:
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are attached to star in the action-comedy The B Team for Sony Pictures. Sony moved quickly to outbid rival studios when the pitch for the movie was tossed around tinseltown this week.
The project is set up to reunite Ferrell with his Talladega Nights director Adam McKay who will helm the movie as well as co-write the screenplay with Land of the Lost writer Chris Henchy. There's no date for when the film will go into production except sometime after the script is done. One added complication to the film's delivery date is its title; 20th Century Fox has its A-Team movie in active development with an eye to have it rolling this summer and out in 2010. [Full story]
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