The Lonely Island Movie in the Works Produced by Judd Apatow

If you dug comedy troupe The Lonely Island's music videos "Dick in a Box", "Like a Boss", "Lazy Sunday" then today is your lucky day. Universal has picked up an untitled project from the trio comprised of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer which should combine their musical and comedic skills in a feature film.

THR reports the that all three members will star in the film with Taccone and Schaffer co-directing. Judd Apatow is on board to produce and the story is said to take place "in the music world", which should leave the door open to the guys reprising characters from their previous hits. The trio have had much greater success making music than making movies. They collaborated on the 2007 comedy Hot Rod, which nobody saw and was pretty terrible. Schaffer directed that one and also went on to helm the equally unfunny The Watch with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. Taccone last directed box office dud-turned-cult favorite MacGruber.

Samberg currently stars in the Fox sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine and chances are production on The Lonely Island movie wouldn't begin until next year at the earliest.

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