Fist Fight delivers everything you expect to the point where it is predictable and unimaginative — but you watch it anyway because it has some talented, funny people in it. It feels like the kind of comedy that Hollywood made because they felt like this is exactly what the audiences wanted.
FIST FIGHT
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
On the last day of the year, mild-mannered high school English teacher is trying his best to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. But things go from bad to worse when he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, who challenges him to an old-fashioned throw down after school.
Chanel Celaya is the latest to join the Charlie Day/Ice Cube-led comedy Fist Fight. Christina Hendricks, Dean Norris, Jillian Bell, and Tracy Morgan make up the cast of the schoolyard brawl pic.
Hendricks joins the schoolyard comedy, which already boasts Charlie Day, Ice Cube and the return of Tracy Morgan after being injured in a car accident over a year ago.
After over a year in recovery and a spectacular reception at the Emmys last night, Morgan has made significant progress and is ready to start taking on gigs again.
Produced by New Line, the schoolyard comedy follows an amiable English teacher (Day) who’s challenged to an after-school fight by one of his fellow teachers (Cube), who thinks that the other is trying to get him canned.
The film tells the story of an amiable English teacher (Day) challenged to an after-school fight by one of his fellow educators (Cube), who’s adamant that the other is trying to get him canned.
New Line Cinema and 21 Laps Entertainment are developing schoolyard comedy Fist Fight, with Charlie Day attached to star. Originally pitched by Max Greenfield of New Girl fame, the film tells the story of two high school teachers who face off against each other in a legendary fist-fight.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to revolve around an epic fistfight between two high school teachers set against the backdrop of the broken-down school system.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to revolve around an epic fist fight between two high school teachers set against the backdrop of the broken-down school system.
