COPS is Getting Adapted Into Edgy Buddy Comedy Directed by Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer
It’s been over 7 years since Reno 911! did a masterful send up of the long running, real life, docu-series COPS.
Hopefully, this will make up for the 7 years of a comedic version of COPS not being around.
(via Deadline)
While the aftermath of the success of the first Zombieland was circuitous, especially leading up to a sequel, a Zombieland 2 seems to now have the wheels turning since Sony has lined up Dave Callaham as the writer and director Ruben Fleischer to return.
The short lived online series version of Zombieland may have been the wrong move for what could be a great franchise, but if they could get the principal cast (Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, and Abigail Breslin) all back, then there would be more hope for the sequel to make it to theaters within the next couple of years.
Citing creative differences, Edgar Wright has left his post as director of the upcoming Ant-Man movie from Marvel Studios. Of course, a search for his replacement has been immediately underway with the aforementioned names of Adam McKay, Ruben Fleischer, and Rawson Thurber being floated around.
Many of you probably know McKay’s filmography/Funny or Die over Fleischer’s or Thurber’s, but know that Fleischer and Thurber helmed Zombieland and Dodgeball, respectively. Wright leaving the project is sad, but we’ll be intrigued what any one of the three will do.