EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg (The Family Plan) and Paul Walter Hauser (The Instigators) are set to team on Balls Up, an action comedy that Peter Farrelly will direct for Amazon MGM Studios.
Hailing from Skydance, the film follows two American marketing executives who are fired for blowing a client sponsorship opportunity and decide to use their free tickets to a major soccer match.
Their drunken debauchery leads them to be hunted by every person across the country. Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese (Deadpool & Wolverine) wrote the script.
Producers include Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Andrew Muscato, as well as Wernick and Reese. The project marks the fourth collaboration for Amazon MGM and Skydance and reunites Farrelly with the former on the heels of the acclaimed comedy Ricky Stanicky, starring Zac Efron, John Cena, Jermaine Fowler and Andrew Santino, which debuted on Prime Video March 7.
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