EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Benjamin Bratt (Poker Face) is the latest addition to the forged of Balls Up, Amazon MGM Studios‘ upcoming motion comedy from director Peter Farrelly and Skydance.
Particulars as to Bratt’s position are beneath wraps. As beforehand introduced, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser, Molly Shannon and Eva De Dominici may also star.
Balls Up follows two American advertising executives who’re fired for blowing a shopper sponsorship alternative and resolve to make use of their free tickets to a significant soccer match. Their drunken debauchery leads them to be hunted by each individual throughout the nation.
Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese (Deadpool & Wolverine) wrote the script. Producers embody Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger, Andrew Muscato, Wernick and Reese.
The challenge marks the fourth collaboration for Amazon MGM and Skydance, on the heels of the critically acclaimed sports activities advertising drama Air, The Tomorrow Battle starring Chris Pratt, and With out Regret starring Michael B. Jordan. It additionally reunites Farrelly with Amazon MGM on the heels of the acclaimed comedy Ricky Stanicky, starring Zac Efron, John Cena, Jermaine Fowler and Andrew Santino, which debuted on Prime Video in March.
Beforehand seen in movies like Piñero, Steven Soderbergh’s Site visitors, Miss Congeniality, and Curtis Hanson’s The River Wild reverse Meryl Streep, Bratt has most just lately appeared in Netflix’s Mom of the Bride, in addition to the hit sequence Poker Face and Loot on Peacock and Apple TV+, respectively. Subsequent up, the actor might be seen starring alongside Julianna Margulies, Minnie Driver, Brian d’Arcy James and Patrick Wilson in Edward Burns’ movie Millers in Marriage.
Bratt is represented by Circle Administration + Manufacturing, CAA, and Myman Greenspan Fox.
