Columbia Pictures has set an untitled comedy that will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner.
Etan Cohen (”Tropic Thunder”) is writing the script, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce.
The comedy is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales. Though the thrust is different, the Baron Cohen-Ferrell pairing is the second major studio project featuring the supersleuth, as Warner Bros. is prepping the Anthony Peckham-scripted drama “Sherlock Holmes” with director Guy Ritchie.
The Col project reteams Baron Cohen and Ferrell, who played rival racecar drivers in Columbia’s 2006 hit comedy “Talladega Nights,” which Apatow and Miller also produced.
“Just the idea of Sacha and Will as Sherlock Holmes and Watson makes us laugh,” said Col co-prexy Matt Tolmach. “Sacha and Will are two of the funniest and most talented guys on the planet, and having them take on these two iconic characters is frankly hilarious.”
Thanks to laziness I never really wrote out my New Year’s Resolutions for this year. To make up for that, here’s the resolutions of various celebrities.
Courtesy Paul Scheer, here’s a link to the adult trailer to Will Ferrell’s upcoming movie “Semi-Pro”. Looks predictably fantastic. Enjoying that Will Arnett has apparently been added to the crew that rotates in Ferrell’s movies. Interesting though that the trailer has a pretty sophisticate age verification system. Usually with these things you just have to enter a birthdate that makes you older then 18, i.e. 1/1/1979 or something like that. For this trailer though you have to enter your name, date of birth and zip code as it appears on your driver’s license or you can’t watch. I tried entering fake info but it wouldnt let me in. Interesting, never seen anything like it.
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