EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Cannavale (Unstoppable) and comic Fortune Feimster (FUBAR) are the most recent additions to the forged of Amazon MGM’s untitled new comedy starring Will Ferrell.
Character particulars are below wraps. We have been first to report on the venture, hailing from writer-director Nicholas Stoller, who’s reunited with Farrell following their work on the Amazon MGM wedding ceremony comedy You’re Cordially Invited.
Within the new movie, Zac Efron co-stars as a younger convict contemporary out of jail who takes a actuality TV courtroom hostage, blaming the megalomaniac TV choose (Ferrell) for a previous ruling that he feels ruined his life. Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Michael Peña, Jimmy Tatro, Billy Eichner, and Regina Corridor can even characteristic within the ensemble, as beforehand introduced.
Producers on the venture embrace Stoller for his Stoller International Options, in addition to Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, and Alex Brown for Gloria Sanchez Productions.
Feimster just lately debuted the particular Crushing It on Netflix, the place she beforehand went together with her Critics Selection-nominated hours Good Fortune and Candy & Salty. She’s additionally a part of the forged of the streamer’s Arnold Schwarzenegger collection FUBAR, which returns for its secons season on June 12, and can quickly be heard voicing a job in Disney’s Zootopia 2.
A two-time Emmy winner, Cannavale has most just lately been seen starring in Amazon MGM’s inspirational wrestling pic Unstoppable, Ti West’s A24 slasher MaXXXine, and Invoice Burr’s Netflix comedy Outdated Dads. Subsequent up, he’ll be seen starring alongside Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, which premiered on the Berlin Movie Competition earlier this yr.
Cannavale is represented by CAA, Framework Leisure, and Schreck Rose Dapello. Feimster is repped by UTA and Levity Leisure Group.
