Two projects are in development between CBS and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company. One based on Ben Schwartz and Laura Moses’s upcoming book Things You Should Know About Dating, You F*ing Idiot was just picked up by CBS, while the other comedy is being developed for Isla Fisher.
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Described as Galaxy Quest meets Ocean’s Eleven, the film finds Ferrell playing a washed-up TV star who reunites with the actor (Momoa) who played his son, who has since become a huge star.
A whistleblower’s harrowing journey into an undercover FBI operation in 1980’s Cook County, Illinois, sending him toe-to-toe with corrupt judges, hustling defense attorneys, and Chicago mobsters; and ultimately resulting in the largest number of convictions of government officials in the history of the United States.
Centers on a member of a professional eSports team, and an anomaly in a sport where players usually retire in their 20s due to slowing hand-eye coordination.
Chronicles the career of Dick Cheney as Halliburton CEO and his rise to become vice president of the United States.
Two FBI agents go deep undercover as a married couple on a reality show about rich Los Angeles housewives.
Logline: Two FBI agents go deep undercover as a married couple on a reality show about rich Los Angeles housewives.
Story is based on embattled medical company Theranos and its 32 year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Story is based on embattled medical company Theranos and its 32 year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are set to team up with Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures for The Hustlers at Scores based on the New York Magazine of the same name by Jessica Pressler.
McKay is attached to produce and direct the adaptation of Mark Weid’s Irredeemable for 20th Century Fox, with Tommy Wirkola penning the script.
The Plutonian is considered the world’s greatest superhero until he begins heartlessly slaughtering the population of Earth – at least those who defy him. His former allies, the superhero group The Paradigm, attempt to find a way to stop his rampage.
Famous George W. Bush impersonator Will Ferrell is looking to take on a different Commander in Chief: President Ronald Reagan. Ferrell is attached to play the lead in Reagan, which tells the story of his second term in office when he starts to show signs of dementia.
When Ronald Reagan falls into dementia at the start of his second term, an ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander in chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are teaming up again for Paramount Pictures’ Daddy’s Home. The first film bowed over the holiday season and racked up $240 million worldwide gross.
Sequel to the hit comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.
Universal has acquired a pitch from Neighbors co-writer Brenden O’Brien, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay in a seven-figure deal. The story centers around an escaped convict who attempts to stop his girlfriend from getting married.
An escaped convict teams up with an unlikely partner to stop his girlfriend from getting married.
Comedy inspired by the classic books by Arthur Conan Doyle.
In the vein of Tropic Thunder meets Starship Troopers, this is a comedic romp that follows two bumbling US Marines that find themselves forced to team up with terrorists in order to battle an even greater evil.
Logline: After blowing their daughter’s college fund, and desperate for cash, a married couple team with their neighbors to open an illegal casino in the suburbs in an attempt to raise the money back.
Universal taps the duo for rewrites of Lauryn Kahn’s Black List- and Hit List-placing script.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
A group of friends reunite after 20 years to finish a treasure hunt they began as teens.
Logline: When a hapless janitor in Supervillain City’s Bad Guy Museum accidentally ends up in a dangerous mechanized suit, the easygoing, nonconfrontational head of the henchmen’s Union of Evil has to become a hero in order to save the janitor, and the city.
Ferrell and Adam McKay will produce the animated adaptation of the 1980s TV show alongside Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller.
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Logline: Centers on a mild mannered insurance courier who gets caught up in a conspiracy to steal the Crown Jewels in London.
Three best friends take a trip to Spain and the trip turns into a quest through the EDM scene to find a hot DJ.
Logline: Two hapless but earnest friends decide to give purpose to their lives by protecting America’s borders from illegal immigrants. In the process they find themselves accidentally stranded in Mexico without identification and must sneak back into the USA.
