Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson Sign Up for 'Central Intelligence'

If Dwayne Johnson is "franchise Viagra" for action flicks, then Kevin Hart is the king of comedy right now. Both have been racking up one hit after another over the last couple of years, and now we're going to get to see what this potentially amazing duo can when they join forces for Central Intelligence.

Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (We're the Millers) and once set to star Ed Helms, the film now will have Hart as a former high school sports superstar turned accountant, with Johnson as his former classmate who was a bullied loser back in the day. But now he's grown up to be a contract killer for the CIA, and ropes the accountant into helping him stop a plot to sell classified military secrets. This might have been funnier if the roles were reversed, honestly.

Ed Helms will exec-produce, with the Marshall providing the latest draft of the script. Filming will begin in the spring, so get ready for the Rock to crack plenty of jokes about Hart's height, or lack thereof.

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Peter Segal Hopeful of Live-Action 'Jonny Quest'; Rawson Marshall Thurber Lands 'Central Intelligence'

* We've heard next to nothing about a live-action movie based on 1960s animated adventure series Jonny Quest, not since 2008 when Peter Segal was attached to direct and Zac Efron circling the lead role and Dwayne Johnson as his bodyguard, Bannon. But the project isn't dead according to Segal, who hopes to make it his next project, telling Comingsoon " "I would love to make that my next movie...We just hired a writer to do another pass. We already have a very good script. Then we go through budgeting hell and trying to get it into shape." That script would presumably still be by writer Dan Mazeau. Segal's latest film Grudge Match hits theaters on Christmas Day.

* Coming off the improbable $270M success of We're the Millers, Rawson Thurber is looking to direct co-star Ed Helms in Central Intelligence, a spy comedy which originally had Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) in the director's chair. Thurber will produce and rewrite the script which has Helms as an accountant thrust into the spy world after reconnecting with a Facebook friend.

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