Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Owen Wilson Up For Role In Hess Comedy

Deadline reports that Owen Wilson will join an as yet untitled action comedy.


Previously titled "Loomis Fargo"-- Based on the real life 1997 theft of an armored car in North Carolina, Jim Carrey would star as the ex-military leader of a band of Southern armored car guards who pull off a huge heist of $17 million.

"Up All Night" creator Emily Spivey wrote the original draft of the script which numerous writers have taken a crack at it including Danny McBride and Jody Hill.

Jared Hess ("Napoleon Dynamite") is directing the project while Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn are producing the film.

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