Heidi Gardner and Bobby Ray join Will Ferrell and Zac Efron in new movie
The 'Saturday Night Live' star and the pro golfer will join an ensemble cast including Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jimmy Tatro, Michael Peña and Fortune Feimster in the comedy feature 'Judgment Day' from director Nicholas Stoller, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Bill Camp, Billy Eichner, Tyler Lofton, Rachel Hilson, Rory Scovel, Bobby Cannavale and Regina Hall will also co-star.
The new comedy from Amazon MGM Studios tells the story of a young convict (Efron) fresh out of prison as he takes a reality TV courtroom hostage because he blames the megalomaniac judge (Ferrell) for a past ruling that he believes has ruined his life.
No details of Gardner's or Ray's roles have been released.
The movie will reunite Ferrell with Stoller, after they previously worked together on 'You're Cordially Invited' with Reese Witherspoon.
Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum and Alex Brown will produce for Gloria Sanchez Productions and Stoller will produce for Stoller Global Solutions.
Stoller recently spoke about the upcoming film, calling it a 'crazy movie'.
He told Collider: ''Judgment Day' is about a TV judge, played by Will Ferrell. I don't know if we're allowed to talk about who the other guy is, but we're pretty close to knowing who the other guys are. Basically, he's a TV judge—kind of a blowhard, kind of a jerk. You find all this out over the course of the movie, but the backstory is he ruled against this guy years ago, and it caused this guy's life to spiral, and he ended up in jail. He gets out of jail, and he takes the judge's show hostage live on air in order to put the judge on the stand, is basically what it's about. It's a crazy movie.
'I'm kind of just like, 'I hope I can pull it off.' But it's a bit like with 'You're Cordially Invited'; I think Will Ferrell is this amazing actor, in addition to being a great comedian. Doing comedy is acting, but doing an earnest, emotional scene, he hasn't … And in this movie, he has a bunch of pretty earnest, emotional scenes that really pull my heartstrings. He has all these other gears that he's done stuff in, but it's been fun to do that in this one, too. I want it to be a tense kind of action movie, but it'll be like all my movies. With 'You're Cordially Invited', people are like, 'It's a rom-com,' and I'm like, 'Well, it's more of a com-rom.' It's more comedic than rom-com-y."
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