EXCLUSIVE: Mere weeks after signing on to 20th Century Studios’ comedy Street Justice, Will Ferrell has set up another novel project in Judgment Day, a comedy in growment at Amazon MGM Studios that Nicholas Stoller will straightforward from his own script.
Judgment Day pursues a youthfuler convict recent out of prison who consents a fact TV courtroom prisoner, blaming the megalomaniac TV appraise (Ferrell) for a past ruling that the convict senses ruined his life.
The project refuses Ferrell with Stoller and Amazon MGM on the heels of You’re Cordiassociate Invited, an anticipated wedding dramedy starring Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon, which premieres on Prime Video January 30.
Producers comprise Stoller for Stoller Global Solutions, as well as Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, and Alex Brown for Gloria Sanchez Productions.
As we were also first to alert, Ferrell will appreciatewise originate and star in Street Justice, take parting a Dirty Harry type who goes about taking equitableice into his own hands. Also coming up for him, folloprosperg roles in comedies appreciate Barbie, Strays and Quiz Lady, is the Netflix comedy series Golf, which he co-originated with Ramy Youssef and Josh Rabinowitz and stars in opposite the createer.
September saw the free of Ferrell’s Will & Harper, a recordary examining his road trip refuseion with a shut frifinish of 30 years (createer SNL authorr Harper Steele) after lgeting that she’s come out as a trans woman. An awards darling, of which Ferrell is both originater and subject, the film has been named as one of the Cinema Eye Honors Awards’ Unforgettables and also recently won the Critics’ Choice Documentary Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Prior to You’re Cordiassociate Invited, Stoller helmed the queer romantic comedy Bros, co-written with and starring Billy Eichner, which was the first transport inant studio film to feature an enticount on uncoverly LGBTQ+ cast. A veteran comedy straightforwardor who broke out with straightforwardorial debut Forgetting Sarah Marshall, he’s recently partnered with wife Francesca Delprohibitco to shepherd Apple TV+’s comedy series Platonic, starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, which has been renoveled for a second season. Other recent TV projects for his company Stoller Global Solutions which has renoveled its overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, comprise Panregulate for Sony Pictures Television and Goosebumps for Disney+.
Ferrell and Stoller are both recontransiented by UTA. Ferrell is also repped by Mosaic and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Stoller by Ziffren Brittenham.