Taking one for the team

The only thing better than Mark Wahlberg movie news is, well, more Mark Wahlberg movie news. The delicious, delectable and damn fine Wahlberg is set to team up with Will Ferrell in an action comedy. According to Variety, the Wahlberg-Ferrell project is being pitched to studios this week but with both stars on board, no doubt it will be green-lit in a matter of seconds. The film would be called The B-Team and the two actors play cops who, presumably, are a notch or two below A-team. This is intriguing. Why, you ask? Marky Mark has never done a comedy before. He starred as an obsessively anti-petroleum firefighter in indie flick I Heart Huckabees which was a semi-comedy (more weird absurdism than comedy) but I don’t think that counts as past experience. Usually Wahlberg is majorly in to the action, blockbuster, drama and occasionally independent roles so doing a mainstream comedy with Ferrell is a big step out for him, one which I think will pay off. Man, I can’t wait to see this. The B-Team doesn’t have a release date or director yet so it’s a fair way off.