Mark Wahlberg And Jonah Hill Teaming For Buddy Action Comedy ‘Good Time Gang’
Now thatJonah Hillhas seriously slimmed down and is rocking one of the two lead roles in21 Jump Street, opposite Channing Tatum, it doesn’t seem all that strange that he would be set to star oppositeMark Wahlbergin a comedic action buddy picture. Think of him as a younger, shorter Will Ferrell, andGood Time Gangas a less comedic companion piece toThe Other Guys.
Good Time Gang, written byMax Landis(who seems to have a script put into development at least once a week) is already earning comparisons toLethal Weapon, although the description of the two lead roles as “a bumbling pair of antiheroes” doesn’t quite conjure up the Murtaugh/Riggs partnership. More details to be found after the break.
TheLA TimessaysGood Time Gangis about “two party-happy mercenaries who decide to take on a more serious case involving a terrorist, only to find their mission complicated when they discover one of them is related to the target.” RCR Pictures is reportedly assembling this as an indie, and there is no director at this point.
Before this one and 21 Jump Street are in front of audiences, we’ll see the new range of Jonah Hill inThe SitterandMoneyball, opening in August and September, respectively. Mark Wahlberg is finishing up Ted now, and has possible future projects inBroken City,The Silver Linings PlaybookandThe Fighter 2, none of which are officially greenlit at this point. He probably won’t be inUncharted, though, now that David O. Russell has moved on toThe Silver Linings Playbookand a dozen other projects.
(And sssh, no one tell Thomas Jane that producers are making buddy action pictures withtwo white leads.)
