This week, Paramount confirmed that they had secured a project that will see the Canadian playing the long arm of the law once again, in a buddy comedy about the first interracial police partnership. Set in the late 1940s, and with Kevin Hart also attached, it was pitched to the studio by (Get Him To The Greek producer) Rodney Rothman and looks to be aiming to relocate the classic buddy comedy into a time when racial issues were even more prominent.
Narrative-wise, it sees the duo (presumably while learning to overcome their prejudices) going undercover in the jazz scene to bust a marijuana ring (surprise surprise, Seth) and the film has already acquired Rogen and his associate Evan Goldberg as producers. The script will be penned by Rothman and I for one wouldn't be overly surprised to see more of the Apatow comedy crew attached in the coming months.
Source: THR
