Gervais, Rock announce buddy cop film

At the Live Earth concert on Saturday, Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais announced their upcoming buddy cop film Badge Buddies. That's right, Badge Buddies. Well at least it’s forthright.

Gervais summarized the plot, saying that he stars as a cop whose old partner retires, making him switch to a partner who is an ex-gang member. Chris Rock commented on this saying, “I wouldn’t call it a buddy cop flick because we’re not really buddies.” You've never actually seen a buddy cop movie, have you, Rock? “It’s kind of Rush Hour meets Shakespeare in Love,” he adds. Nevermind, where could they go wrong creating a wisecracking kung-fu/historically inaccurate biopic? Oh, right.

The ethnically mismatched comedy will be shot sometime in 2008 and, to add more mismatch to the mix, Gervais may be playing as a homosexual. According to Rock and Gervais, there’s also a twist at the end that they don’t wish to give away yet. Could it be that the cops learn that, despite their backgrounds, they’re not so different after all? That would sure be unexpected.

Then again, there was a certain glimmer in the eyes of the funnymen that suggested, perhaps, that the whole thing is a gag.

Regardless, with any luck the possible film will make boatloads of money along the lines of Gervais’ last paycheck, Night at the Museum, and allow him to return to casually creating another groundbreaking comedy series. It could also allow Rock to return to… umm, creating edgy 90s-era stand-up and voicing animals for Dreamworks’ CGI films.

Related links:
Youtube recording of the announcement
Ricky Gervais' website
Chris Rock's website

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