This is a funny DVD. The feature is really good. They made some interesting choices on some skits. I think Will Ferrel is a genius and this DVD proves it. There is one skit in the bonus featues that was in a dress rehersal and then got cut from the show. I think it is one of the funniest skits ive ever seen.
High Points
Celebrity Jeprody
The Professors
Robert Gouley
Harry Carrey
THe nude model
Guitar Devel
Blue Oyter Cult
then of course they have one cheer leader and one Roxbury.
It also has two of Will's interviews on Connan.
The outtakes are also really good.
Go buy it. 14.99
" I need more cowbell" thats my fav will moment
"Ive got a fever. And the only perscription is more Cow Bell!"
"Guys before im done with you, your going to be wearing gold plated diapers"
Thank you for making this thread because it gives me the chance to say once again that Will Ferrell is my own personal Jesus. He can do no wrong. Even in -- and it hurts me to say it because it hurts me to think that he was in it and also to think that I sat through the first half just to see him in it -- Boat Trip.
Quote from: Banky"Ive got a fever. And the only perscription is more Cow Bell!"
"Guys before im done with you, your going to be wearing gold plated diapers"
one of the greatest moments in pop culture history no doubt that skit is comedy at its best
Quote from: GhostboyThank you for making this thread because it gives me the chance to say once again that Will Ferrell is my own personal Jesus. He can do no wrong. Even in -- and it hurts me to say it because it hurts me to think that he was in it and also to think that I sat through the first half just to see him in it -- Boat Trip.
have you seen this DVD?
I have to discuss Gus Chiggins with somone.
I haven't, and it shames me to say that I didn't even know about it. It's now in my Amazon.com shopping cart. Just waiting for my next check so I can hit the purchase button...
im happy to enlighten you
is Neil Diamond: Storytellers on this dvd? If not, I'll save my money...
that and the Brasky skits are Ferrel's best.
I saw it free on TV about a month ago and there was just no way they could fit in his best in the time they had. But what they did show was great. They need a volume 2.
Quote from: SoNowThenis Neil Diamond: Storytellers on this dvd? If not, I'll save my money...
that and the Brasky skits are Ferrel's best.
there is some Niel Diamond on the outtakes
Unfortunatley theres no Bill Brasky
there definantly needs to be a volume 2
there needs to be a box set
Just got the DVD.
If you're a Ferrell fan, then you CANNOT turn this down.
First thing I did was played the extras and I was just crying. The back of the DVD says that its running time is 72 minutes but thats the SKETCHES. the extras are another 40 minutes. Definitely worth the money, even if your favourite sketch is missing, and one of mine is: the angry boss, Mr. Tarkanian. Overall its great.. well... its amazing.. no, its astonishing....
come to think of it.. its none of those.... this is a scrumtralescent Best Of.
It's so gosh darn great!
This is what you all need to do:
1. Get all your friends together
2. Order up some pizzas
3. Have your friends pick up the beer cause you supply the DVD, the TV and the house
4. Collect their money for the pizzas
5. Throw the disc in, hit play and laugh your drunken, pizza filled asses off
This is what we did last night. Highly recommend it. Good fun.
I'm ashamed, as Will Ferrell's number one fan, to say that I only now got around to buying this, a full month after being alerted to its existence.
Sweet Jesus Mary and Joseph, it's funny. Gus Chiggins...man. Man. I wish, howver, they'd used the Actors Studio skit with Kate Hudson as Drew Barrymore...that was my favorite. I think a volume two is definitely in order.
Ok guys ok, I'm gonna need you to be a pal and get off the shed.....Come on now, dad's not kidding..... If you don't get off the shed I will fight you! I will chain you to a pipe in the crawlspace!
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I wrote this next song after I killed a drifter to get an erection.
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:-)
Will Ferrell, Norm McDonald and Dennis Miller are SNL's greatest!
I got the Molly Shannon one. Plan to get this one soon. My least favorite Shannon character- Mary Catherine Gallagher- is also the most popular, unfortunately. I think she can be really funny and VERY occasionally annoying.
I plan to get the Will Ferrell one very soon. He was also great guesting on Strangers with Candy.
Will Ferrell Joining Bewitched & The Salesman
Source: Variety
New Line has purchased The Salesman, a pitch by The Simpsons veteran Dana Gould to be tailored as a vehicle for Will Ferrell. The Elf star will play a slacker stereo salesman who is an inveterate liar.
In the film, his compulsive lying leaves him living with his parents and engaged to two women because he can't bear to disappoint either one. As the lies catch up to him, the salesman meets a no-nonsense girl who gets him to change his ways.
Ferrell is also being courted to star alongside Nicole Kidman in Bewitched. He has met with Kidman and likely will play hapless hubby Darren Stevens, the ad executive who falls in love with the spell-casting witch whose wacky family turns his life upside-down. Nora Ephron is looking to direct the film.
I'm wanting to buy but can anyone tell me if these are on it:
Ferrell and Jim Carey in the kiddie pool lifeguard sketch? Truely hilarious!
Any Harry Caray?
Ted Turner stuff
his "Lover's" sketch with Rachel Dratch
his Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heavens Gate opening sketch
Roxxbury I am sure is on it
Thanks
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Any Harry Caray?
Yes, including his original audition in which he performed that character.
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his "Lover's" sketch with Rachel Dratch
Yes, including a second one in the outtakes.
The lifeguard skit is sadly missing, but the Carrey Roxburry skit is there. There REALLY needs to be a volume 2.
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Any Harry Caray?
Yes, including his original audition in which he performed that character.
And he does an impression of him on one of the Conan extras.
Bewitched: Will Ferrell has landed the role of Darrin in the Nora Ephron-directed film version of the classic sitcom according to The Washington Post.
the new Bachelor guy looks like Will Ferrell
also, i really want to get this dvd...but as mentioned before i can only be let down about what's not on there
good lord... lets not dwell on a few sketches... ITS A GOOD DVD! ITS WELL WORTH THE MONEY!
seriously
Universal Kicks Around Will Ferrell
Source: Variety
Doest this guy ever take a break? Will Ferrell will now also star in a Universal Pictures comedy about the competitive world of kids soccer. Ferrell will play a father who reluctantly becomes the coach of his 10-year-old's soccer team, then finds himself in a rivalry with his own father.
Starting production in late January, the untitled film will mark the feature directorial debut of Marco Schnabel, who has been second unit director on such Jay Roach-directed films as the Austin Powers trilogy and Meet the Parents.
Ferrell will do the film after he completes toplining the untitled Woody Allen project and then co-starring with Ed Harris in the drama Winter Passing. He'll do the soccer movie before starring opposite Nicole Kidman in the Columbia comedy Bewitched.
Ferrel can also New Line's upcoming Elf and he just joined the same studio's The Salesman. He's also completed toplining the DreamWorks comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which he co-wrote. He's also expected to topline A Confederacy of Dunces if that film completes its financing.
i'm interested to see him in a dramatic role. He always says he wanted to be like Bill Murray. I can see it. Imagine Will Farrell winning an oscar one day
I can see it. Look at where guys like Tom Hanks came from.
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Duvall Kicks Around Soccer Ball with Ferrell
Source: Variety
Robert Duvall is set to star alongside Will Ferrell in the untitled kid soccer film Universal Pictures has set up for a January start date.
Marco Schnabel is directing the film in which Duvall plays a type-A coach whose intensity left his son disillusioned toward a game he was becoming quite good at. Years later, his son reluctantly agrees to coach his own 10-year-old son's team. That sets him up mano a mano against his father, and there's nothing the father wants more than to give his son a coaching facial.
The comedy was written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, whose credits include The Santa Clause and Space Jam.
Quote from: MacGuffinThat sets him up mano a mano against his father, and there's nothing the father wants more than to give his son a coaching facial.
Funniest thing I've read all week.
hahahaa
Good interview (http://www.theonionavclub.com/3942/feature1.html) over at the Onion AV club. He talks a bit about Confederacy Of Dunces, which sounds like it's still in standstill.
Chris Farley deserves a vol. 2 before W.F.
did anyone buy the CF DVD? i wondered if there were any extras?
It's a Boy for Will Ferrell and Wife
LOS ANGELES - It's a boy for funnyman Will Ferrell and his wife.
Magnus Paulin Ferrell was born early Sunday in Los Angeles. He weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces, said the actor's spokesman, Matt Labov. The child is the couple's first.
Ferrell, 36, appeared on "Saturday Night Live" from 1995 to 2002, and had his first starring movie role in last year's Christmas comedy "Elf." He and Viveca Paulin have been married since 2000.
Will Ferrell Saves the Fly on the Wall
Source: Variety
Landscape Entertainment has set up at Universal the pitch Fly on the Wall (working title), written by Emperor's Club screenwriter Neil Tolkin.
The comedy is being developed as a potential starring vehicle for Will Ferrell. It centers on a down-on-his-luck lawyer whose life starts to take a turn for the better after he innocently saves the life of a fly.
Ferrell is currently filming the soccer comedy Kicking & Screaming for Universal.
I realize this is unrelated to the SNL DVD, but I fucking LOVE the extras on Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Oh god I was dying at the alternate takes he does of stuff.
Quote from: MyxomatosisI realize this is unrelated to the SNL DVD, but I fucking LOVE the extras on Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
Oh no you're right that was disgustingly unrelated. Don't post stuff like that in here. Find a Kevin Smith thread, at the very least.
Anyone want to discuss Gus Chiggins again? This old prospector would've been a HILARIOUS recurring character. Businesses/Corporations having to hire an old prospector for reasons unknown. It would've been great.
My favorite things are:
Fake Commercial
Devil trying to play guitar
Robert Goulet: Coconut Bangers Ball, it's a wrap!
The Conan episode when he's Robert Goulet the whole time.
I think they need a Vol. 2, they are still missing a bunch of really good skits and Commercials.
I'll say it again, just to make myself feel better:
Neil Diamond
Quote from: SoNowThenI'll say it again, just to make myself feel better:
Neil Diamond
"Leave me out of this Niel"
"NO! I will leave you IN!"
^
Oh man, you have no idea....
I used to just break into laughing fits in public places because of this skit running through my head.
"This next song I wrote after I killed a drifter to get an erection"
Quote from: SoNowThen"This next song I wrote after I killed a drifter to get an erection"
Jimmy Fallon: Hey, it's Neil Diamond!
Will Ferrell as Neil Diamond: You bet your balls it's Neil Diamond.
Fan: Yeah, Will!
Will Ferrell as Neil Diamond: Yeah...
Neil!
i love his James Lipton...."Bernard Pivoh-oh-oh-oh-oh"
Quote from: El Duderinoi love his James Lipton...."Bernard Pivoh-oh-oh-oh-oh"
"... Match Game... that show was delightful... no, no it was brilliant... no, no, no, no, there is no word to describe its perfection... so i'm forced to make one up, and i'm going to do so right now...
Scrumtrulescent. Match Game was absolutely scrumtrulescent."
Will Ferrell is Stranger Than Fiction
Source: Variety Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Will Ferrell is in talks to star in the comedy Stranger Than Fiction, which Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) will direct for Senator International. Variety says major studios such as Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. are aggressively pursuing the project, which has not yet landed at a studio.
The film, written by Zach Helm, revolves around an IRS auditor whose life is interrupted by the sound of a personal narrator who knows his every thought, feeling and action, including when and where he will die.
Ferrell this September starts shooting Columbia's Bewitched opposite Nicole Kidman. His 2005 projects include the Woody Allen film Melinda and Melinda at Fox Searchlight and Universal's "Kicking and Screaming, with Robert Duvall.
Seems like this is the best place to put this. It's a little sketch Ferrell did as Dubya. Don't remember if it's been posted yet.
http://kintera.sitestream.com/ferrell_qt_hi.mov
This DVD is missing some good sketches like some of the fake commercials and Robert Goulet with Jay-Z as well as others I can't remember right now. The Blue Oyster Cult sketch is not quite as funny as I remember it, but I have seen it many times, so perhaps it isn't fair. But I still find the two "lovahs" to be hilarious.
Does anyone else loathe the Spartan cheerleaders sketches?
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Does anyone else loathe the Spartan cheerleaders sketches?
Me!...
WHAT?!?! i fucking ADORE the cheerleaders sketches!!!
Don't know if this has been posted yet...
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September 7th.
consider my money spent
Septembre's looking better and better and I'm looking poorer and poorer.
Can't wait!
Quote from: ewardWHAT?!?! i fucking ADORE the cheerleaders sketches!!!
Best I've seen is the one with David Duchovny.
the only time I liked one of those was when Will Ferrell said, "My name is Craig/ I did drugs once"
This may be in the wrong thread, but someone, please, for the love of god, someone, tell me: can it be true? A Confederacy of Dunces movie? And with Will Ferrell? I will rent my asshole to prison inmates if it will help the financing.
Quote from: subversiveproductionsThis may be in the wrong thread, but someone, please, for the love of god, someone, tell me: can it be true? A Confederacy of Dunces movie? And with Will Ferrell? I will rent my asshole to prison inmates if it will help the financing.
Mid-way down thread:
http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?p=66898#66898
Earlier tonight, I was watching the Best of Will Ferrell Vol. 2, and one of the funniest sketches I've seen him do has to be Wake Up and Smile. Will Ferrell and Nancy Walls co-host a morning talk show. David Alan Grier (host that week) does the weather. The teleprompter goes out and they just go INSANE. The cheesy music, the ineptness, the cuts to fake commercials for Dumongela spread and sitcoms where Jim Breuer just can't get the pots back on the shelf. And the ending is priceless. Transcript here (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/95/95hsmile.phtml) (commercials omitted), but definitely worth seeing if you can get it.
I know the one you are talking about....that sketch is fucking brilliant, and yes the ending is hilarious.
One of my favorite Will Ferrell sketches is one they never showed, they were doing an E! behind the scenes look at SNL and they were showing sketches in rehearsal that didn't make it to the actual show. This one had Ferrell as a bearologist and a woman is in his lab. For some reason, he says to the bear in the cage (clearly a guy in a suit), "Kill her!" So the bear runs up to her, grabs a gun off the table and shoots her! It's fucking hilarious.
I like the sketch with Will Ferrell as the asshole boss who stabs one of his employees with his own trident.
Quote from: RaviI like the sketch with Will Ferrell as the asshole boss who stabs one of his employees with his own trident.
Seriously, thats like his most underrated sketch, based on all the people I rave about that to.
Mr. Tarkanian was hilarious.
how many WF skits end with him eating flesh (an arm maybe) and blood all over his face? i'm almost positive there's more than one.
another thread still alive
BULLSHIT
Ferrell Hits the Beach
Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck have been hired by Columbia Pictures to pen the script to Bronze God, a potential comedic starring vehicle for funnyman Will Ferrell. Jimmy Miller and Julie Darmody will be producing the project through Miller's Gold/Miller production shingle.
Initially set up as a pitch, Bronze is an true underdog story about a professional lifeguard who gets to live out his lifelong dream when he secures one of the wildcard entries in a professional beach volleyball tournament.
At Columbia, the studio for which Ferrell recently shot Bewitched, Jonathan Kadin and Matt Tolmach will oversee the project's development and production.
Bronze God will be the first feature assignment for Gregory and Huyck, whose credits include Frasier and The Larry Sanders Show. In addition, the pair is developing Back to Reality, a single-camera series for ABC that will be shot to look like a reality series.
How many True Underdog stories do we need?
Busy little bee, isn't he?
A Confederacy of Dunces (2005) (in production) .... Ignatius J. Reilly
Joan of Bark: The Dog that Saved France (2006) (announced)
Talladega Nights (2006) (announced) .... Ricky Bobby
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2005) (announced) .... Music Shop Dude
The Producers (2005) (pre-production) .... Franz Liebkind
Curious George (2006) (filming) (voice) .... The Man in the Yellow Hat
Bewitched (2005) (post-production) .... Jack Wyatt/Darrin Stephens
Kicking & Screaming (2005) (post-production) .... Phil Weston
The Wedding Crashers (2005) (post-production) .... Chaz
The Wendell Baker Story (2004) (post-production)
Winter Passing (2004) (completed) .... Corbit
hollywood executive: QUICK! He's hot now! Let's put him in 10 movies a year till we wear him out like Ben Stiller and he's not funny anymore!
anyone heard much about the Wendell Baker story?
i think i read somewhere that the early screenings didn't go too well.
Ferrell Going Back in Time for Universal's 'Lost'
After playing an elf and an anchorman on the big screen, Will Ferrell is venturing into "Land of the Lost" for Universal.
The "Saturday Night Live" alumnus is attached to star in a "Land of the Lost" comedy feature based on the 1974-77 television series of the same name.
Universal acquired the feature rights from Sid and Marty Krofft, executive producers of the original NBC series, who will produce the feature for the studio. Jimmy Miller and Julie Wixson-Darmody also will produce via the Mosaic Media Group banner.
Adam McKay, a former "SNL" writer who directed Ferrell in "Anchorman," is attached to direct, with Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas signing on to adapt the screenplay.
The series revolved around forest ranger Rick Marshall and his children, Will and Holly, who are caught in a time vortex while rafting on the Colorado River and transported to a mysterious world populated by dinosaurs. The feature film will be an update of the series, which is due out on DVD this month.
Ferrell, currently onscreen in Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda," will next be seen in Universal's comedy "Kicking & Screaming" and will star opposite Nicole Kidman in this summer's "Bewitched." He is playing Franz Liebkind in the film version of Mel Brooks' Broadway hit "The Producers" to be released domestically by Universal on Dec. 21.
The Kroffts are behind such TV projects as "Lidsville, "The Bay City Rollers Show," "The Brady Bunch Hour," "Donny and Marie," "Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters" and "H.R. Pufnstuf," which Universal also made into a feature film.
Henchy has written for numerous television series, including "Spin City" and "Entourage," and was the creator of the series "Battery Park" and "I'm With Her." McNicholas formerly was a head writer on "SNL" and is writing the feature film "The Party," with Jay Roach attached to direct.
McKay, who co-wrote "Anchorman" with Ferrell and did a rewrite on "Bewitched," is directing the action-comedy feature "Talladega Nights," which he will co-write with Ferrell.
Quote from: onomataviva...there's a Nascar craze now?
Crew of four on fast track to Ferrell film Source: Hollywood Reporter
Sacha Baron Cohen, John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan and Gary Cole have signed on to star in the untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy for Columbia Pictures.
Ferrell ("Bewitched") plays Ricky Bobby, a world-class race car driver and fan favorite. Cohen, hot off the success of his HBO comedy series "Da Ali G Show," will play Jean Girard, who comes to the U.S. to conquer NASCAR and defeat Ferrell.
Reilly, who is filming Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," will play Cal Naughton, Ferrell's boyhood friend who together with Ferrell forms "Thunder & Lightning," the most feared racing duo in NASCAR.
Duncan will play Lucius Washington, a crew chief whose main job is to harness Ferrell's go-for-broke attitude and keep him from crashing. Cole will play Reese Bobby, Ferrell's estranged father who re-enters his life to help him return to the top of the racing world.
Adam McKay is directing from a script he wrote with Ferrell. Production is scheduled to begin next month, with a summer 2006 release date scheduled.
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Sacha Baron Cohen, John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan and Gary Cole have signed on to star in the untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy for Columbia Pictures.
that combo right there warrants a major
whatthefuck?!
awesome. man i caught a few minutes of anchorman on tv today and its really funny. its amazing to me though how they saved the movie by losing that crazy storyline about terrorists and just ended it with the bears. like, thats amazing.
Quote from: HedwigQuote from: MacGuffin
Sacha Baron Cohen, John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan and Gary Cole have signed on to star in the untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy for Columbia Pictures.
that combo right there warrants a major whatthefuck?!
On one hand it has SBC, JCR, MCD, and Will Ferrell. OTOH, NASCAR.
I'm torn.
Just mentioning Nascar is enough to bore me to tears, but the idea of John C. and Will Ferrell on a TEAM together - a team of any sort - is just beautiful.
Quote from: GhostboyJust mentioning Nascar is enough to bore me to tears,
Maybe it will be played as a satire....:crosing fingers:...probably not though
:cry:
Satire? Most definitely, This is Adam "Whale's Vagina" McKay were talking about. I don't even think it'll be counted as "satire," I belive his type of comedy is known as "doofus" according to Lorne Michaels. None the less, this should be funny
Ferrell & Reilly Reteaming on Step Brothers
Source: Variety
Variety reports that Columbia Pictures is developing another star vehicle for Will Ferrell and his Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-star John C. Reilly.
The studio has made a preemptive deal for Step Brothers, a comedy Adam McKay will direct from a script he'll write with Ferrell. Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce.
Ferrell and Reilly will play coddled guys who live with their respective single parents. Their folks fall in love and marry, making the guys stepbrothers.
The studio is targeting a summer 2007 start date and a tentative budget that will be slightly less than that for "Talladega Nights," which required the NASCAR setting.
Step Brothers will be the third script for Ferrell and McKay, who before "Talladega" wrote Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. They began collaborating on "Saturday Night Live," where McKay was head writer.
Sanchez's 'P.E.' plays for HBO
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's recently launched Gary Sanchez Prods. is expanding into television with "P.E.," a single-camera comedy for HBO.
After a bidding frenzy among a number of broadcast and cable networks, the project landed at HBO in what sources described as one of the pay cable network's richest development deals, with sizable penalties attached to it.
Jody Hill, Ben Best and Danny McBride will write "P.E.," which centers on a guy who, after flaming out as a major league baseball pitcher, returns to his small Southern hometown to teach physical education at the middle school he once attended and has to make amends with all the people he turned his back on.
Hill, Best and McBride wrote and starred in the indie kung fu comedy "The Foot Fist Way," which Hill directed. When the movie screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the trio was signed by CAA, the agency that also represents Ferrell.
After seeing a tape of the movie, Ferrell and McKay made it Gary Sanchez's first acquisition under the company's first-look deal with Paramount Vantage.
Ferrell and McKay then teamed with Hill, Best and McBride for "P.E.," which all three will executive produce. Gary Sanchez's head of production Chris Henchy, who most recently served as a writer on HBO's comedy "Entourage," will oversee the project for the company.
In addition to its busy slate on the film side, Gary Sanchez Prods. plans to be active in television. The company will take a selective approach, developing a couple of TV projects a year, sources said.
Ferrell and McKay are coming off the summer blockbuster "Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby," which the two wrote, McKay directed and Ferrell starred in.
ZOIGAS! BOIGAS! I just got bit by the... love bat... and it's driving me MAAAAD!!!
Universal OK's 'Land of the Lost'
Will Ferrell comedy to cost $100 million
Source: Variety
Universal is pushing the button on "Land of the Lost" for a March start.
Decision to greenlight the Will Ferrell project surprised observers, who are aware that U had a rough ride with its $160 million comedy "Evan Almighty." Studio sources suggest the budget of "Land of the Lost," described as an event comedy, was recalibrated from $125 million to $100 million in order to earn its start date.
Brad Silberling will helm the bigscreen adaptation of Sid & Marty Krofft's children's skein of the same name. Jimmy Miller is producing along with the Kroffts; Julie Wixson-Darmody and Daniel Lupi exec produce.
Decision to move ahead effectively removes Ferrell from availability for other pre-strike projects on the cusp, such as "Himelfarb" for Warner Bros. The comedian has been attached to "Land of the Lost" for several years. Miller reps Ferrell and the Kroffts, who have long tried to get a bigscreen adaptation of their show made.
Adaptation by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas revolves around a disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide who find themselves in a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people and reptilian Sleestaks.
Donna Langley spearheaded the effort to obtain rights from the Kroffts, who also produced and created smallscreen skeins such as "H.R. Pufnstuf," "Lidsville" and "Donny and Marie."
Ferrell, Wahlberg join 'The B Team'
Adam McKay to direct comedy for Sony
Source: Variety
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired "The B Team," a spec pitch package for an Adam McKay-directed action comedy that will team Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops, with Chris Henchy and McKay writing the script.
Pic will be a co-production between Gary Sanchez Productions and Mosaic. Sony has not set a release date on the film, but it is expected to go into production as quickly as the filmmakers can get it ready.
The comedy was pitched around town on Tuesday by Endeavor and CAA, and Sony co-president Matt Tolmach moved quickly. Tolmach was comfortable committing to a film without a finished script, because Columbia worked in exactly the same fashion on "Talladega Nights" and "Step Brothers," both of which were set up with a pitch and the collaborative track record of McKay and Ferrell.
"Talladega Nights," which cost around $72 million, grossed $148 million domestically in 2006, and "Step Brothers," which cost around $65 million, grossed $100 million for Columbia Pictures in 2008.
The newcomer to this equation is Henchy, but he has ties to all the participants. He co-wrote "Land of the Lost," the Universal summer comedy that stars Ferrell. Henchy works for McKay and Ferrell's Gary Sanchez Productions, where he is co-executive producer of the GSP-produced HBO sitcom "East Bound & Down." Henchy previously spent several seasons as co-executive producer of "Entourage," the HBO series on which Wahlberg is executive producer with Doug Ellin and Stephen Levinson.
"We have a great relationship with the team at Sony from 'Talledega Nights' and 'Step Brothers' and we couldn't be more excited about doing our next one with them," said McKay. " Also I feel like we've put the physical altercation I had with Matt Tolmach on 'Step Brothers' behind us, and it's time to get back to the business called show."
Sony intends to register the title "The B Team," a challenge considering that 20th Century Fox is mobilizing a movie based on the TV series "The A Team," with Joe Carnahan directing.
A McKay-Ferrell comedy is a departure for Wahlberg, who stars next in the Peter Jackson-directed drama "The Lovely Bones."
"The B Team" is one of two star-studded packages that studio toppers eyeballed this week. The other is "The Adjustment Bureau," a sci-fi drama mobilized by Media Rights Capital as a re-team between Matt Damon and his "The Bourne Ultimatum" writer George Nolfi, who'll direct. A deal hadn't been made for the film by late Wednesday.
I don't know.....this seems just strange but consider me slightly intrigued. The McKay/ferrel team always makes me laugh.