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Jake Johnson & Damon Wayans Jr. Join Awesomely-Lazy Titled ‘Let’s Be Cops’

Wookie Johnson — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:45:22 +0000

Damon Wayans Jr. has decided to further follow in his dad’s footsteps by playing a comedian we’re also supposed to find believable as an action hero. He’ll join New Girl’s Jake Johnson in Let’s Be Cops. The plot details revolve around two guys who decide to be cops. What happens from there? Hijinks, dummy.

The film will be directed by The Girl Next Door’s Luke Greenfield from a script he wrote with Nick Thomas. Casting is still underway for the other roles, including a mobster who the guys unwittingly mess with while impersonating police officers. We’ll let you know when Ray Liotta is cast in that role. (Deadline)

New Fox Comedy Trailers: ‘Napoleon Dynamite’, ‘New Girl’ And Others

Geoffrey Golden — Mon, 16 May 2011 23:05:01 +0000

Check out the trailers for "Napoleon Dynamite," "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," "New Girl" and "Allen Gregory." They're all Fox-y.

Fanboy Fave Aubrey Plaza Signs Up For Film About Time-Travel Meme

Penn Collins — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:07:25 +0000

Aubrey Plaza, not one to be pigeonholed, will be starring in a movie without “Hand Job” in the title. She, Jake Johnson, and Mark Duplass fill out the leading cast of Safety Not Guaranteed, a film based on a classified ad-turned internet meme in which a man (presumably serious) solicited a time-travel companion with the caveat that the companion’s safety would not be guaranteed during the journey.

Johnson describes the premise as such in this correspondence with Playlist:

“It’s the story of my character who is a writer for a magazine in Seattle that decides go….and get an interview with this guy and make fun of him a little bit. And I bring one of my interns, whose Aubrey, and it’s kind of her story, meeting this guy and this guy’s effect on us and it turns into its own little world,” Johnson explained. “And Mark plays the guy the guy from the classified ad.”

Thankfully, Johnson is an actor and not the screenwriter.

The film is written and directed by Colin Tervorrow and begins production next month. Next step: interview the actual time-traveller next week and ask him if the movie is any good or not.