Bowen Yang, Megan Thee Stallion to Star in A24 Musical

A24 has greenlit “F*cking Comparable Twins,” an R-rated musical comedy that locations a subversive spin on “The Guardian Entice.”

Comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp are adapting the movie from their two-gentleman stage clearly present, which premiered at Manhattan’s Upright Residents Brigade in 2014. Along with writing the script, Jackson and Sharp will co-star because the eponymous equivalent twins. They are going to be joined by a star-studded ensemble contains Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang and Megan Thee Stallion. It isn’t very clear who these actors will play.

Showcasing authentic tracks by Jackson, Sharp and composer Karl Saint Lucy, “F*cking Similar Twins” takes inspiration from Hallie and Annie’s mischievous exploits in “The Dad or mum Entice” and follows two enterprise adversaries who discover they’re equivalent twin brothers. They decide to vary websites in purchase to reunite their divorced mother and pa and switch right into a family members yet again.

Larry Charles, who previously directed “Borat” and labored as a staff creator on “Seinfeld” for a lot of seasons, is directing “F*cking Similar Twins,” which is at present in manufacturing.

Chernin Enjoyment, one explicit of the backers of 2017’s hit song-and-dance spectacle “The Most interesting Showman,” is making and co-financing the film with A24. The job has been within the will work for a while twentieth Century initially obtained the authorized rights to change the section current right into a film again once more in 2016, however it by no means obtained off the ground.

A24 will handle the worldwide launch of the film. “F*cking Equal Twins” marks the first musical for A24, the agency powering indie favorites like “Girl Hen,” “Minari” and “Uncut Gems.”

Marius de Vries, whose credit incorporate “La La Land,” “Moulin Rouge” and “CODA,” has boarded the enterprise as govt music producer. Fiora Cutler will present because the movie’s new music supervisor, overseeing solid musical route with de Vries.

Yang, a breakout star on “Saturday Night time time Live,” shall be witnessed subsequent in “Fireplace Island,” which is a contemporary contemplate on “Delight and Prejudice,” as correctly as Billy Eichner’s intimate comedy “Bros.” Yang is represented by UTA, 3 Arts Leisure, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

Megan Thee Stallion, the Grammy-successful artist guiding “Savage” and creator of “sizzling feminine summer season,” will make her performing debut in “F*cking Comparable Twins.”

Lane, most acknowledged for his musical do the job in “The Producers,” “Guys and Dolls,” “A Amusing Situation Occurred on the Strategy to the Discussion board” and “The Lion King,” last appeared in Hulu’s whodunit “Solely Murders within the Constructing” and HBO’s time interval piece “The Gilded Age.” He’s represented by ICM Companions, Nameless Materials and Slate PR.

Mullally, only acknowledged for collaborating in Karen Walker on “Will and Grace,” simply currently starred in director James Ponsoldt’s drama “Summering,” which premiered at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Pageant. She is represented by UTA and attorneys Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum, Morris, Bernstein, Trattner & Klein.

Jackson and Sharp are represented by UTA, Kirsten Ames Administration, and lawyer Melissa Fox. Charles is represented by UTA and lawyer Jared Levine at Morris Yorn. de Vries is represented by UTA and attorneys Coach Shepherd Phillips Melin Haynes & Collins Prolonged. Saint Lucy is represented by UTA. Cutler is represented by UTA.