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Production gets underway tomorrow on the Columbia Pictures comedy “The Other Guys,” and the studio has set Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson are joining the Adam McKay-directed comedy as super cops.
Steve Coogan has been set to play the villain.
They join Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, who play the title characters, and also Eva Mendes and Michael Keaton.
The film is set for Aug. 6, 2010 release.
Johnson and Jackson will play an elite and cocky cop tandem whose exploits are the envy of the department, and the second-tier cops played by Ferrell and Wahlberg.
Scripted by Chris Henchy and McKay, the film is a co-production between Gary Sanchez Productions and Mosaic.
Johnson is the lead voice in the upcoming Sony animated pic “Planet 51,” and next stars in the Fox comedy “Tooth Fairy.”
Jackson just wrapped “Iron Man 2.”
Coogan is coming off “Night At the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” and is filming “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief."
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