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Tom Segura To Star In & Produce R-Rated Comedy ‘El Tigre'
EXCLUSIVE: Top comic Tom Segura has for weeks been teasing a new film project on his podcasts — and now, we know what it is. He's found his first feature starring vehicle in El Tigre, an R-rated comedy from emerging director Tyler Cornack (Mermaid) that goes into production in New Mexico this summer.
The news comes as Segura kicks his work in film and television into high gear. Just a week ago, Netflix ordered a second season of Bad Thoughts, his new series for the streamer, where he places a lens on his some of his most dark and twisted cinematic fantasies.
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El Tigre follows Jeff (Segura) and his friends as they head down to Mexico, only to discover the hard way that Jeff is a dead ringer for the infamous cartel leader El Tigre who's gone missing. After being captured by rivals and then rescued by El Tigre's forces, Jeff has to pretend to be their ruthless leader until he can find his friends and a way home.
'From the moment I read this script I knew I had to play this part,' Segura said. 'As a fellow business owner, I've always found it inspiring how productive and efficient cartel leaders can be. This whole team is so excited to make a great comedy and I'm so thrilled to be a part of it.'
Greenlighted for production by Double Down Pictures, the production company led by Will Meldman in partnership with his real estate mogul father, Mike Meldman, El Tigre was scripted by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley. Mosaic, founded by Jimmy Miller, is producing alongside Segura and his YMH Studios partner Ryan P. Hall, Will Meldman and Eddie Glaeser for Double Down Pictures, as well as M. Riley and Molly Mandel for Mosaic. Segura came to partner with Cornack here after being wowed by his work on Mermaid, a critically acclaimed comedic thriller, starring his friend and fellow comic Johnny Pemberton, which Utopia acquired on the heels of its SXSW world premiere. We were first to report on the project in April 2024.
In his own statement to Deadline, producer WIll Meldman said, 'We're excited to support Tom's first feature film because audiences are hungry for the R-rated comedies of the 90s-2000s that aren't getting made by the studios anymore. This nod to Kevin Kline's DAVE and Pacino's SCARFACE feels like the perfect twisted marriage, and with Tyler's fresh directorial vision combined with Tom's proven comedic appeal, we knew this was exactly the kind of project we wanted to back.'
On Bad Thoughts, which premiered in May, Segura transforms into a whole assortment of characters, both real and fictional — among them, actor and martial artist Steven Seagal, secretive operative Agent Six, and country music superstar turned kidnapper Rex Henley. He created the series, setting it up at Netflix after self-financing a pilot, and also serves as its writer, director and exec producer. As an actor, Segura has also been seen in series like Workholics and The Cabin with Bert Kreischer, along with films like Instant Family, where he starred opposite Mark Wahlberg. To date, he's released five comedy specials — all at Netflix — having most recently unveiled Tom Segura: Sledgehammer in July 2023. He is represented by Mosaic and WME.
Cornack was both the writer and director of Mermaid, in which a drug addicted Florida man finds a wounded mermaid at his lowest point, stopping at nothing to protect her when word spreads about his secret. His other directing credits include Tiny Cinema, Butt Boy, and The Pocketeers. He is repped by Underground and Cohen & Gardner.
Best known as two of the creators and executive producers of Amazon's adult animated comedy Fairfax, Buchsbaum & Riley are with WME.
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