In a highly competitive bidding war involving several studios and streamers, Netflix has landed an exciting action comedy film with Jason Momoa (Aquaman, A Minecraft Movie) and Andy Samberg (SNL, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) set to star.
The currently untitled film is set in Momoa’s native Hawaii, though further details as to the plot are under wraps. Samberg’s Party Over Here and Momoa’s On The Roam will produce. The script will be written by a pair of highly decorated SNL alums – 11x Emmy nominee Rob Klein and eight-time nominee John Solomon. A director has not yet been selected.
Momoa’s upcoming slate includes Amazon’s action comedy The Wrecking Crew, where he stars opposite Dave Bautista, as well as Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, where he fulfills his longtime ambition to play intergalactic alien Lobo. On August 1st, he unveils Chief of War, the Apple historical epic he co-created with Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, in which he also stars.
Then, there’s Animal Friends, a live-action/animated road trip action comedy, where he stars alongside Ryan Reynolds, Aubrey Plaza, and Vince Vaughn, which opens October 10th. Next up, Momoa will reprise his role as Duncan Idaho in Dune 3, which rolls cameras in July.
Samberg will next be seen starring alongside Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Jay Roach’s The Roses, a remake of the classic 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses that Searchlight releases August 29. This past fall, he returned to Studio 8H for SNL‘s 50th season, portraying Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff opposite Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris.
He also starred in three new The Lonely Island digital shorts, and performed alongside Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny and Eddie Vedder in a musical medley for SNL50: The Homecoming Concert. He starred opposite Kate Winslet in the recent war correspondent drama Lee and launched a new podcast with Seth Meyers, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers Podcast, last spring.
via: Deadline
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