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McG has teamed up with Kevin Hart to produce a high-concept comedy in the works on Netflix. And this comes with some big names in screenwriting and production.
Hart is set to star in the untitled project, with McG directing the film, bringing him back to the genre that launched his career with Charlie’s Angels more than 25 years ago.
The project is produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Emily Morris of 21 Laps, the banner behind the Netflix series. Strange thingsas well as Ryan Reynolds’ maximum effort. Levy and Reynolds have collaborated frequently on films such as… Deadpool Wolverine, Free Man And Netflix Adam ProjectWhich was directed by Levy and starred Reynolds. In this case, they work together exactly as producers.
Hart also produces through his Hartbeat banner, alongside the company’s Luke Kelly-Clyne and Bryan Smiley.
The record concerns two rival spies who meet in a Lamaze class where their wives become fast friends. As their double lives collide in unexpectedly funny and dangerous ways, the two men are forced to reluctantly become best friends and partners on the road to fatherhood.
Adam and Aaron Nee, writers of the Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum romantic comedy Lost city Which also worked on the next one Masters of the universeare the screenwriters with Jonathan Tropper. The latter is part of Levy’s repertoire, having worked on it This is where I leave you and Adam Project.
The screenplay is based on a short story by Sean Lewis.
Both Hart and McG have strong relationships with Netflix. Hart is the subject of Netflix Roast Kevin Hartwhich will premiere on May 10 and features competitive comedy sequences Funny in Arabic With the company. It is also the top lines 72 hoursa comedy directed by Tim Story that will premiere on July 24.
McG’s last five films have been for Netflix. The director has spent a decade or so focusing on making films in the teen scene, whether it be horror comedies or horror films The babysitter And a sequel The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Or YA sci-fi movies like Edge of the world and The ugly ones. He also directed the body-swapping family comedy Switch familyWhich starred Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms.
The director began his distinguished career with action comedies, which he became famous for directing Charlie’s Angels Movies in the early 2000s. As he drove Terminator: Salvation and We are Marshalland previously worked in the espionage vs. espionage genre with This means warWhich starred Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, and Reese Witherspoon.
McG is repped by WME and Sloane Offer. Hart is repped by WME and 3 Arts Entertainment.
