Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are set to re-team with their Step Brothers and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby helmer Adam McKay for a new comedy, Border Guards, Deadline reports.
Jesse Armstrong (“Peep Show”) is supplying the screenplay for the Sony Pictures comedy, which follows Ferrell and Reilly as two friends who decided that it’s in America’s best interest that they go to work patrolling the US Mexico border. They wind up getting trapped in Mexico, however, and have to sneak their way back to the states.
Ferrell recently starred in McKay’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues with Reilly also appearing in a cameo role.
Ferrell and McKay will also produce alongside Kevin Messick with Michael De Luca and Jonathan Kadin overseeing for Sony Pictures.
