Danny McBride To Lead Jody Hill’s Action Comedy, ‘L.A.P.I.’

Danny McBride will once again reunite with film school buddy Jody Hill on the silver screen for Mandate Pictures’ upcoming action comedy, “L.A.P.I.”

The film is the first project under McBride, Hill and their fellow buddy David Gordon Green’s Rough House banner and will center on a beaten down, hardboiled P.I. to be played by McBride. Not much more is known about the project but it’s sure to explore their signature absurdest, super-awkward hit-or-miss style of comedy.

Writers Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan, who had two scripts on 2009’s Black List, pitched the story and Hill presumably co-scripting, as his written everything his directed thus far (they’re also apparently writing a remake of “Brewster’s Millions,” for WB, which would make this the third re-do now). But again, details are sparse, so that’s an educated guess.

McBride, Hill and writing partner Ben Best broke out in 2005 with their martial-arts-comedy “Foot Fist Way” subsequently joining fellow North Carolina film school friend Gordon Green in Hollywood. McBride And Gordon Green recently finished work on medieval-stoner-comedy “Your Highness” which shot in the U.K. and hit theaters October 1 while McBride (who also stars in that film, alongside James Franco), Hill and Best have been working on HBO’s “Eastbound And Down.”