Will Ferrell to Show Both Sides in '2-Face'

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Will Ferrell to Show Both Sides in '2-Face'

Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 11:40PM

Will Ferrell - whose Step Brothers is in theaters next weekend - is about to battle someone even closer in an upcoming comedy: Himself. He'll play a guy with dual personalities in the completely-unrelated-to-Batman 2-Face. The script, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has been sitting around at Sony for a while, and comes from Hancock co-writer Vince Gilligan.
As you'd expect, since this is a comedy, and it ought to be very broad, considering the subject matter. Here's the drill: Half of Ferrell is a soft bleeding-heart liberal and the other half is a loud, obnoxious racist. There should be plenty of laughs but probably a fair number of gags that don't fly. Eventually, this kind of shtick tends to wear on you.

And I'm not sure I buy Ferrell as a racist. He's almost too affable for that. But I think Michael Richards could pull it off.

There isn't a director line up yet, although the producer attached to the project opens all sorts of strange possibilities: The Chronicles of Narnia producer Mark Johnson and Mosaic Media are pairing up to see this one to fruition. We don't have a release date or even a production date, which gives us time to think of Will Ferrell shouting the N-word as innocent bystanders. I mean, really? What are they going to do with this? Did I miss something and racism became funny again?

If so, that's great news for one reason and one reason only: Disney might get off their high horse and give us a quality DVD version of Song of the South. Other than that, racism still blows. Knowing that, if Ferrell isn't making a bunch of insensitive jokes, why make him racist? Why not just have him be conservative and liberal? At least that kind of makes sense.

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I can see it now..."2-Sided", starring John Cusack and Andrew Dice Clay, coming soon to a theatre near you (for about a week)!

Friday, July 18, 2008 |

JMK

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