EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired remake rights to the Danish film and TV series Klovn. The studio has set Danny McBride to write and star in Clown, a film he will produce through his Rough House banner along with Todd Phillips and his Green Hat Films. The film follows the basic premise of the Mikkel Nørgaard-directed film, a concept created by Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, who’ll also be producers on the project. The logline: two men and a 13-year old boy embark on an R-rated vacation.
In the original film that followed the TV series, Casper and Frank plan a canoeing trip deemed “Tour de Pussy” in which they plan to party hard and have as much sex as possible. Then, Frank discovers his girlfriend is pregnant and wants to get rid of the baby. She’ll only relent if he can prove he’ll be a worthy father. Frank’s answer is to take her 11-year old son on the canoe trip, but he and his buddy don’t change any of their plans for debauchery. The film was widely compared to The Hangover, and sounds like a perfect premise for Phillips, but at this point, he’s only producing and not attached to direct. In the remake, the kid will be 13 years old.
McBride will start work immediately. His HBO series Eastbound & Down airs its finale this Sunday. McBride played a brief but notable character in the Phillips-directed Due Date, in which he played a wheelchair-bound Iraq vet who tunes up Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis’s characters after they try to cash a check at Western Union. McBride and Phillips are repped by CAA, with McBride lawyered by Steve Warren and Phillps by Warren Dern.
Drafthouse Films are releasing the movie in the US!
didn’t Hollywood get the Memo?? Danny McBride is not funny anymore
McBride is still funny. He’s always been funny. Even when the projects stink, McBride delivers big laughs.
and delivers box office gold……..
oh wait……
uhmmmm…
never mind.
I’m confused. Is this really the set-up?:
yeah Frank discovers that she is pregnant, and SHE wants to get of it, because frank keeps fucking up, and she could not imagine him being much of a father
I have seen both the original and the TV show upon which it is based. There is no way this will work as a Danny McBride feature.
The television show is basically a Danish remake of Curb your Enthusiasm, with a well known Comedian playing himself as a terrible husband and both the movie and show are filled with cameos of famous Danish personalities playing off colour versions of themselves. That is where most of the humour comes from. Also, much of the comedy of the movie involves making fun of the young boy’s penis size (including child full frontal). It’s funny and cute but pretty much only in the context of the dark, Danish sense of humour and McBride and Phillips will just make it seem perverse, desperate and unfunny. I was McBride to find something that works for him but I really, really hope that he and Phillips leave Clown alone. It is just not going to work for them. Jerry Seinfeld on the other hand, might really have something with it.
…Because all his other movies have made so much money.
Another gutter-minded film- the life of the baby hangs in the balance- hillareous!
I know this is comedy and shouldn’t take it so seriously but you have an entire generation of young men taught to believe that real men act like Sandler, Sheen, Vaughn, McBride, Rogen, et al. Apparently a man’s only goal in life is to get laid, smoke out and act like a retarded twelve-year-old.
agree. this sounds truly awful.
Score another one for the schlub club!
there’s no doubt this sounds terrible, but it’s just possible, humor me for a minute, that we should start holding their parents accountable (specifically their fathers) rather than Danny McBride and Charlie Sheen. maybe institute a mandatory class in high school covering the basics about life so kids can learn everything they’re supposed to be but not learning at home?
Sick!
DANNY MCBRIDE IS THE MAN! YOU’RE FUCKING OUT!!!
The Danish film kicks ass – can’t wait to see this.