Your reputation precedes you Mr McKay and Ferrell! It’s not what you know in Hollywood it’s who you know. These two have pitched an idea to a few studios and Sony was quick to find a gun on which to jump and greenlit the McKay and Ferrel movie B-Team with an unfinished script and is already gearing up for production.
The comedy was pitched around town on Tuesday by Endeavor and CAA, and Sony co-president Matt Tolmach moved quickly. The trade says that Tolmach was comfortable committing to a film without a finished script, because Columbia worked in exactly the same fashion on “Talladega Nights” and Step Brothers, both of which were set up with a pitch and the collaborative track record of McKay and Ferrell.
You have to have a lot of faith in these guys. Either that or they are the masters of the sales pitch.
There isn’t even a finished script yet, and Sony is all ready to pat them on the ass on the way out the door with a big stamp of approval.
All we know about the movie so far is that it is about Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as second string cops. That’s it. Maybe this will be the realization of the cop show that Wahlberg was a fictional star of in the movie Boogie Nights (Brock Landers and Chest Rockwell?) after trying to create “serial porn”. But perhaps without the porn.
Speculation exists that Sony shouldn’t fall in love with the title “The B-Team” with the big screen adaptation of the “A-Team” in production and declaring copyright on the name could prove to be difficult.
