One of the memorable events from this weekend’s Emmy Awards ceremony was the surprise appearance of 30 Rock actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, who was severely injured in a road accident in June last year. He’s well on the road to recovery and is now lining up his first job since the incident – Morgan is in talks to join the Ice Cube/Charlie Day comedy film Fist Fight.
The New Line comedy has a script from Van Robichaux and Evan Susser, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Richie Keen planning to direct. The basic concept finds Day as a mild-mannered English teacher who must man up when a colleague at his school who thinks he’s trying to get him fired challenges him to a good old-fashioned punch-up. Unless he somehow gets out of it, or manages to learn some amazing ability, we’d suggest this ends with a Charlie Day pancake.
Morgan, who is playing the school’s gym coach, joins other recent hires including Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris and 22 Jump Street’s Jillian Bell. The comedian was last seen in Chris Rock’s Top Five, and also had a role in the long-delayed, controversially released Accidental Love, AKA David O. Russell comedy Nailed. Fist Fight will mark his return to cinemas.
from Empire News
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