Dave Bautista is showing some real-life nerve these days after recently enjoying action-centric roles in Guardians Of The Galaxy, Blade Runner 2049, and Spectre.
As relayed via THR, Bautista is starring in My Spy, a new family friendly action-comedy with Peter Segal signing on to direct. Segal is himself no stranger to action-comedy, having helmed the Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway-starring Get Smart a decade ago. His credits also include 50 First Dates, Anger Management, and Tommy Boy. Further the new comedy will give Bautista a chance to enter the “Kindergarten Cop” stage of his career.
The logline reads, “My Spy will tell the story of a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious nine-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.”
The film is set-up at STXfilms as part of a “custom created” series of projects, which are essentially high-concepts designed from the ground up around the stars they’re partnered with in order to create new “signature roles” for the talent. This will be Segal’s follow-up to his latest film, Second Act, which is due out in November and stars Jennifer Lopez. Meanwhile, it will a chance for Bautista to take a starring role in an all-ages movie after previously stealing scenes in the Guardians films and this summer’s Avengers: Infinity War.
We’ve seen that Bautista has the comedy and action chops. It’ll be great to see how he gets on flexing them in his own movie.