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Michael Cole · 02-25-2009, 04:50 PM

Sony Pictures Activates The B Team
Source: Variety
February 26, 2009

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired B Team, an Adam McKay-directed action comedy that will team Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops, with Chris Henchy and McKay writing the script.

The movie 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, reports Variety.

The comedy was pitched around town on Tuesday by Endeavor and CAA, and Sony co-president Matt Tolmach moved quickly. The trade says that 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.

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.

Which would you rather see-- an action comedy starring Will Ferrell and, uh, Mark Wahlberg, or Matt Damon back in spy mode? Both of them seem like sure money-making bets, and both of them are pitching themselves to studios this week, as laid out in an article in today's Variety.

There's no real doubt that either project will get picked up, but apparently Ferrell and director Adam McKay are making the rounds to sell the project, as well as Damon and Bourne Ultimatum writer George Nolfi, who will make his directorial debut on the project. The Ferrell and Wahlberg comedy is called The B-Team, and stars the two actors as cops who, presumably, are a notch or two below A-team. Damon's film is called The Adjustment Bureau, a sci-fi love story loosely based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.

The two projects have nothing to do with each other, really, other than they're both selling themselves right now and therefore got shoved into the same Variety article. But the Ferrell Wahlberg one is definitely the most intriguing-- who knew Wahlberg had real comedy chops? As much as I enjoy seeing badass spy Damon, it's Wahlberg's comedy debut that I'll definitely be looking forward to. source: cinemablend

pretty good news there. Would be interesting.

Last edited by Michael Cole; 02-26-2009 at 07:16 PM.

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