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Todd Phillips’ “War Dogs Goes for a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ of Arms Dealing in First Trailer

March 25, 2016

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With the Hangover franchise presumably in the rear view mirror, writer/director Todd Phillips has lately been working on a much more intriguing project, War Dogs.

Based on the true story (written in an Rolling Stone by Guy Lawson) article of the young, enterprising American gun runners David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, it looks like Jonah Hill gets to live up his character in the Wolf of Wall Street (replace stocks with guns) and team up with Miles Teller in what seems like one of the many batshit crazy stories to come out of Afghanistan.

Watch the trailer here, then look for War Dogs in theaters August 19th.

Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, and Andrew Lazar Are Developing “Ghost Army”About a Specialized WWII Hoax Unit

June 16, 2015

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(via Deadline)

There was a unit filled art school/ad agency/etc. types tasked by the U.S. military to fool the Germans into thinking that they had more troops than they actually had and hopefully this feature adaptation will work out way better than Monuments Men.

Already, Todd Phillips of The Hangover franchise fame, is working on a more current war comedy in Arms and The Dudes that focuses on arms dealers helping U.S. forces in Afghanistan. His next project will have him team up once again with Hangover star Bradley Cooper along with Andrew Lazar, who Cooper worked with on American Sniper, on what has to be one of the more incredulous stories out of WWII.

This ‘Ghost Army’ unit employed dummies, inflatable tanks, and more to fool German forces into how mighty the Americans were when advancing through Europe.

No talent is attached to star yet, but this could have the potential to be this decade’s fun WWII comedy.

Crime Comedy Continues to Trend with “Frauds” from Caspe/Ozeri/Tarses and “Arms and Dudes” Starring Jonah Hill

December 7, 2014

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A wave in comedy that has been slowly building towards breaking across both TV and film has been crime themed comedy.

Already in the works, Johnny Depp has the high profile thievery comedy in Mortdecai and Zach Galifianakis is starring in Masterminds, previously titled Loomis Fargo, featuring a robbery by a more rag tag bunch. It might be a stretch, but you can this year’s unexpectedly funny revenge flick John Wick in there too.

Announced this week, Happy Endings’ David Caspe, Gil Ozeri along with producer Jamie Tarses are putting together a family crime comedy at Fox called “Frauds”. It will follow low level criminals trying to work up their way to ponzi schemes (via THR).

Todd Phillips has just cast Jonah Hill and gotten crime comedy feature “Arms and the Dudes” moving forward at Warner Bros. Hill will be part of a duo that were stoners that end up dealing arms for the U.S. government (via THR). Even though The Interview hasn’t made it to theaters and Arms and Dudes has to roll into production, we think the two would definitely make a good pairing.

Perahps, out of this trend, we’ll finally get the this decade’s Snatch.

Steve Conrad and Todd Phillips to Direct Revived John Belushi Biopic

October 22, 2013

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Steve Conrad and Todd Phillips to Direct Revived John Belushi Biopic

Comedy biopics seem to be a precarious thing to make. Just off all the attempts at a Richard Pryor biopic should be discouraging at the very least.

With that said, we hope that Todd Phillips and Steve Conrad who has written the upcoming Secret Life of Walter Mitty as well as Weather Man will pull this John Belushi biopic together and make something that could be really great.