Some thoughts of Danny Mcbride
Danny Mcbride
McBride confirmed he?s taken the role and had just been to tour the ?massive sets? that are being built for the movie. Ferrell can change this into a spoof, but some things just have to remain. 3
Variety reported today that McBride will star in Your Highness for David Gordon Green, director of Pineapple Express and college friend. McBride wrote the screenplay with Ben Best, who also co-wrote Foot Fist Way and played a role in the movie. See, it?s all just an interconnected bunch of funny guys over here. 2
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That wouldn’t be the case, except that Danny McBride is fascinating to watch playing the bullying antihero. He parlayed this performance into major roles in two upcoming comedies, Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder. You’ll see more of him. 6
That’s pretty big praise for a 30-year-old actor heretofore seen only in small roles in All the Real Girls, Hot Rod, and The Heartbreak Kid. But Danny McBride is already a cult hero to comedy insiders for his Ferrell-icious performance as a strip-mall tae kwon do instructor in a low-budget indie called The Foot Fist Way, which debuted at Sundance last year. It made the rounds to Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, and Ferrell himself, who helped secure a spring ‘08 release for the film as an executive producer. McBride will also costar in three of next year’s biggest studio comedies (Drillbit Taylor, Pineapple Express, and Tropic Thunder) and has shot a pilot for HBO (also produced by Ferrell) about a pro baseball player reduced to teaching PE at a middle school. 1
It was really cool to work with Ben in The Heartbreak Kid as an actor, and then see him come onto Tropic Thunder as a director. He is the lead in that as well, but he is also directing this huge epic. It has been pretty incredible to see him wear all those hats at once. 5
Keep in mind, this is a documentary about the movie being shot within the movie Tropic Thunder, and not a documentary about the movie you’ll actually be going to see on August 13. The more confused you are, the easier it will be to trick you into reading more Cinematical. Hear that (does a little Jedi mind stuff) you will read Cinematical. Oh yes, you will. 7
Shot a few years ago in North Carolina with a cast of mostly non-actors, the movie, about taekwondo instructor Fred Simmons and his personal crises, came to Sundance and then started making its way through Hollywood via bootlegs. Some movies do that - they become buzz films in the industry and you’re nobody if you haven’t seen the film or, even better, own a burned DVD someone at a studio or an agency made for you. Championed by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the film finally got itself a distribution deal and will be hitting theaters this weekend. And the buzz was right - this is a damn good movie. 4
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