duedate-RDJ-Galifianakis(Zach Galifianakis sporting Todd Phillips’ “I’m here for the gangbang” hairstyle from Old School)

Courtesy of /Film, this is the first picture from Due Date,Todd Phillips’ follow-up to The Hangover starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.

…buddy-comedy story has been described as kinda Hangover meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland [story editors on King of the Hill] (with rewrites by Adam Sztykiel [Made of Honor]) has Galifianakis as a wannabe actor who becomes the companion to an expectant father / businessman (Downey) as they dash cross-country to (hopefully) arrive in time for the childbirth.

I’d watch Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. paint a house (preferably mine), and everyone’s impressed at what Todd Phillips did with The Hangover — which started as a script by the guys who wrote Ghost of Girlfriends Past that one studio wanted to call What Happens in Vegas — but a script by two guys from King of the Hill and the writer of Made of Honor does not inspire confidence.  Look, Todd, we know you’re tough, but we’d feel better if you’d quit showing up to sword fights with a broken bottle.  Here, take this stun gun and chloroform I had in my van next to the lube.