If there were a temple dedicated to Christopher Walken, then I would probably worship there every Sunday. This guy is a Hall of Famer. The man is just deadly in hard drama… but as of late he’s been using his hard edge persona to do comedy… and doing it well. In that spirit, he’s signed up to be in the new Ping Pong comedy “Balls of Fury” (Oh man I like the title!
The good folks over at Cinemablend give us the following:
Walken has signed on to star in Balls of Fury, a film about the national sport of China: Ping Pong. Typecast forever as the singing, dancing, cooking face of pure evil, Chris Walken will of course play the villain.
Chris’s character is named Fang, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that he has a brother named Scar. It’s only natural. Opposite Walken is a guy named Dan Fogler as a disgraced ex-player recruited by the CIA to play a table tennis tournament in the evil Fang’s lair.
He’s playing a villain named FANG!!!! I’m in love with this movie already. It looks like the Ping Pong version of Dodgeball.
The only concern I have about this is that Walken seems to be doing a LOT of comedy of late. I think he needs to get back to his harder dramatic roles for a while before the novelty of seeing him in comedy wears off.
