Black and Ferrell in CHiPs film?
The talk of the CHiP's film, that's the film based on the TV series about the motorcycle cops - Californian Highway Patrol, has turned quiet. Now it looks like this film might be pipped to the post by a comedy version starring Jack Black and Will Ferrell, much in the vein of Starsky and Hutch.
The word from The Greatest Jack Black Site in the World through Digg:
Jack...Black and Will Ferrell have sold an untitled comedy pitch to New Line Cinema that centers on Los Angeles motorcycle cops, reports Variety......Will Ferrell will portray a cop who moves to Los Angeles because there's no crime in Irvine. He partners with Black, who's the youngest in a long line of cops but is unsuited to join the family business.
If they race ahead with this they just might beat the "slightly more serious" version of the film, however I still question the appetite or quality of a film of the TV series. This is pure nostalgia and not really a great piece of drama, just a very popular Saturday afternoon show, and I was a fan too, but it can't make a film, surely? However sounds like the Black-Ferrell film is going to be using the idea as a base and nothing more, perhaps these two comic giants could produce something really exceptional?
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