Los Angeles (E! Online) - Will Ferrell is used to getting sidesplitting
laughs. Now he'll be splitting personalities.
The Semi-Pro star has signed on to star in Two Face, a high-concept
comedy-drama for Sony Pictures Entertainment, per Variety.
Ferrell plays a fervent racist who inadvertantly develops a more liberal
personality after falling victim to a prank.
Vince Gilligan (The X-Files, Hancock) penned the screenplay, which the
41-year-old comic actor had been eyeing as a potential starring vehicle
for the last three years.
Ferrell hits theaters next week in the comedy Step Brothers, which
reunites him with his Talladega Nights costar John C. Reilly. He
recently wrapped shooting on a big-screen version of Sid and Marty
Krofft's classic Saturday morning series Land of the Lost.
Next up, Ferrell will reteam with another Talladega Nights pal, Sacha
Baron Cohen, playing Dr. Watson to the latter's Sherlock Holmes in
Columbia's comedy send-up of the classic detective duo produced by Judd
Apatow.
In other casting news, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall
are singing the blues in Crazy Heart, a music-themed drama about a
down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country crooner (Bridges) whose budding
relationship with a female reporter (Gyllenhaal) helps him get his life
together and revive his ailing career.
Legendary songwriter-producer T-Bone Burnett will compose original tunes
for the film and soundtrack to be performed by Bridges, an accomplished
pianist (see The Fabulous Baker Boys).
The 58-year-old Oscar nominee most recently played the villain in Iron
Man and next appears in the comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate
People. Gyllenhaal costars as Batman's love interest, Rachel Dawes, in
The Dark Night, unspooling today.
No word on Duvall's role, but the actor-director will produce the film
through his production company, Butchers Run Films.
Filming gets under way next month in Santa Fe, N.M.
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