Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista's buddy comedy is officially happening, Deadline reports.
Jonathan Tropper is on screenwriting duties – he also penned the script for Shawn Levy's upcoming movie The Adam Project, which stars Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Zoe Saldana.
The project doesn't have a director yet, although Bautista threw Atomic Blonde helmer David Leitch's name into the mix in his original Twitter pitch: "Just going to throw this out into the atmosphere and see what happens," he tweeted earlier this year. "Here we go… Me and Momoa in a Lethal Weapon type buddy cop movie directed by David Leitch. Ok! There it is. Now we wait."
Momoa responded a few days later on The Late Late Show, telling host James Corden: "I’m not on Twitter, but he literally texted me about four days ago going, 'We need to do a buddy cop film.' We love each other. We obviously met on See, we're on Dune together, and so I said, 'Absolutely.'"
The pair co-starred in Dune (although they didn't share any scenes together) and season 2 of the Apple TV Plus show See. Both actors are busy with their respective superhero franchises – Momoa is currently filming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, while Bautista has Guardians of the Galaxy 3 in the works, so filming for this movie isn't expected to take place until 2023.
