In yet more new movie trailer news, IGN has debuted the red-band trailer for Your Highness, the medieval stoner epic from David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and Ben Best (basically the creative team from Eastbound and Down).  It stars James Franco and Natalie Portman, whose graduation from earnest-but-slightly-pretentious smartypants who cares about important world issues to just-because-I-care-about-world-issues-doesn’t mean I can’t act like one of the guys continues.  I’d suggest enjoying this phase as much as we can before the eventual transition to “suburban yuppie.”  Trust me, man, I know these college chicks.

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The Black List is a list of Hollywood’s best unproduced scripts as voted on by executives.  The projects are interesting not because most executives aren’t complete idiots, but because projects tend to be better when they start with an actual script, instead of some half-assed pitch like, “Hey, what about guinea-pig secret agents?”  Anyway, here’s an update on two:

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer signed on to direct 30 Minutes or Less, a script by Matthew Sullivan and Michael Diliberti.  I wasn’t a huge fan of Zombieland, but I thought the visual style was very cool, and I was hoping his next project wouldn’t be stock characters in a stock premise again.  Now THR reports that Aziz Ansari in a story that… “revolves around a junior high history teacher (Ansari) and a pizza-delivery man who are forced to rob a bank when one of them is strapped to a bomb vest.”  ThePlaylist has more details on the plot, though they warn it’s “spoilery”.  Meanwhile, Danny McBride is in talks to co-star as Ansari’s straitlaced University classics professor.  Ha, just kidding, he’ll play a “white trash goon.”  In honor of that, here’s a Tweet from KF*ckingP: “Doing free pap smears today on Miami Beach to raise money for Haiti. Let’s get our troops home!”  There’s so much right with that.

Rob Corddry will sculpt your butter for Obama.  In Butter, a script by Jason Micalleff ,Rob Corddry will stir Jim Carrey’s vanilla, stepping into a role he turned down, of a former butter-sculpting champion whose wife (Jennifer Garner) is the heir apparent to win this year’s title, only to be thwarted by a young black girl.  The whole thing is said to be a satire of the 2008 Iowa democratic caucus (the black girl is Obama, Jennifer Garner is Hillary).  Box-office toilet poison Kate Hudson is also signed to star, presumably as a stand in for Sarah Palin, the chick that ruins everything for everyone.  [via LATimesblog]

If you’ve been going through Danny McBride withdrawals for these last three weeks that he hasn’t been in a movie, you’re in luck, because now Kf-ckingP is set to star in The Chadster.  So kiss my ass and suck my dic– *please turn over to side two*

[from Pajiba]  The Chadster at one time had The Hangover’s Todd Phillips attached to both produce and direct. Phillips has fallen off as director, but he’s still producing the comedy, which is moving ahead with [Eastbound & Down writer Shawn] Harwell as scribe.
The studio wedding comedy, set up at Warner Brothers and produced by Phillips’ Green Hat Films, is about a best man who has his position threatened when an eccentric, long-lost childhood friend shows up at the wedding and causes trouble.
Danny McBride is currently attached to play the eccentric childhood friend.

Like my headline, I think Kenny Powers: Wedding Crasher is the guiding premise.  With Todd Phillips directing, that’d probably be awesome.  With someone else… who knows.  It’s like Judd Apatow: when he directs, you get stuff like Knocked Up.  When he only produces, you might get Superbad, you might get Drillbit Taylor.  Either way, for Kenny Powers’ buddy, I think they should hire this guy:

(thanks to BDarbs for the tip)

Danny McBride will star in Hench, based on (what else) a graphic novel about “a football player who suffers a career-ending injury and needs a job. He signs on as henchman to a successful villain.”  McBride will co-write with Eastbound & Down co-writer Shawn Harwell.  So, pretty much Eastbound & Down the movie then. I’m okay with that.  Danny McBride may not be athletic, but the man can sure swear. [Variety]

Columbia pictures bought the rights to the story of that dude who surrendered himself to Somali pirates in exchange for his crew’s freedom.  Sounds good, but… wasn’t this already a South Park episode?  [THR]

20th Century Fox hired Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Starship Troopers) to direct The Surrogate (not to be confused with The Surrogates). “Based on the 2004 book by Kathryn Mackel, the story centers on a couple desperate to have a child who find themselves in an unbearable position when they find out the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane.”  Uh… don’t all pregnant chicks go insane?  Anyway, Fox and Verhoeven is a good relationship, because no one can do trash like Paul Verhoeven.  I ordered a “Verhoeven” at a Dutch brothel once.  Once.  [THR]

BOOM! Studios (which is disappointingly unaffliated with Michael Bay) is doing a comic book called “Die Hard: Year One” about the adventures of John McClane before he yippie kai yayed Hans Gruber’s foreign ass off the Nakatomi Towers.  Let’s hope it stays a comic book.  Though I can already see the Fox execs moving their leg around like a dog when you rub its tummy. [ComicsContinuum via /Film]

After the jump, you can watch a new clip from Will Ferrell and Danny McBride’s wholesome family comedy, Land of the Lost.  I dislike things that are wholesome and family oriented as much as I like things that are booze related and pornographic, but if you’re into that whole “not swearing” bullshit, I suppose you could do worse than this.  I mean what’s the competition?  Paul Blart?  Night at the Museum?  It’s over, give this thing the Oscar.  Best Lame Shit for Fags, the trophy could say.
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