After working with John C. Reilly in the forthcoming “Cedar Rapids,” Ed Helms is getting ready to star alongside the other “Step Brother” Will Ferrell.
Both actors are now on board the comedy “Daddy’s Home” written by the shit hot scribe Etan Cohen. The writer has been on a tear lately turning in scripts for “Tropic Thunder” and “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” and earned studio attention by penning buzz worthy scripts for “Men In Black 3” and the gestating Will Ferrell/Sacha Baron Cohen “Sherlock Holmes” project (though kinda have a hunch after the success of Guy Ritchie’s films their comedy version isn’t gonna happen anytime soon). Anyway, his latest to get approval from both stars and suits is pretty straight forward: “a woman marries a wild guy (Ferrell), but tires of his man-child ways after they have kids, divorces him, and marries a bland but stable spouse (Helms). When Ferrell comes back into her life to bond with their kids, he turns the new household upside down.” Basically, its like Cohen took the Frank “The Tank” storyline of “Old School” and spun it into its own film. Not a bad idea, really.
While it seemed like Ferrell was briefly flirting with something more restrained when it was announced he was going to be remaking the French rom-com “I Do: How To Get Married And Stay Single,” with this and “The Other Guys” coming out this summer, it looks like the man-child we love to hate and hate to love is here to stay for a while just yet. No word on production schedules just yet, but we would imagine this will only go in front of cameras once “The Office” (which is thoroughly jumping-the-shark/sucking this season) wraps.
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