Everyone knows the black guy\'s supposed to go firstTropic Thunder (opening in August) is Ben Stiller’s first directing project since Zoolander, and that’s not even the best part.  The black guy in the picture is Robert Downey Jr. 

[In the film] Robert Downey Jr. plays Kirk Lazarus, a very serious Oscar-winning actor cast in the most expensive Vietnam war epic ever filmed. Problem is, Lazarus’s character, Sgt. Osiris, was originally written as black. So Lazarus decides to dye his skin and play Osiris, um, authentically.

Downey plays one of a team of self-indulgent stars cast in the modern equivalent of Apocalypse Now. Stiller plays an action hero who has just adopted a baby from Asia but worries that ”all the good ones are gone.” [Jack] Black portrays a comedian known for performing multiple roles in a single film — his latest is called The Fatties: Fart 2. But when the film’s director (Steve Coogan) and writer (Nick Nolte) get fed up with their prima donna cast, they drop them into the jungle to fend for themselves. The actors think they’re doing some sort of full-immersion filmmaking, but the danger they’re in is very real. [EW]

Wow, I think I just ejaculated in shorts a little there – this just became my most anticipated movie of the year. Giggle party!