Here’s a casting combo we’re not sure many people would have seen coming: Ken Jeong, Hulk Hogan and David Hasselhoff will be sharing screen time in a new untitled comedy that focuses on celebrity death pools.
The decidedly morbid idea of betting on when certain people will die forms the basis for the film, in which Jeong plays a struggling nightclub owner who is facing serious threats from the loan shark to whom he owes big debts.
In order to pay the man off and emerge with his limbs intact, the businessman decides to make sure he wins a long-running death pool by killing his chosen celebrity: enter The Hoff, who will almost certainly be hassled here in complete contravention to that standard rule against doing so. And as to how Hogan fits into the film, that’s still unclear.
Hasselhoff will be co-starring and producing the movie, which comes from WWE Studios and Hyde Park Entertainment. Diary Of A Mad Black Woman director Darren Grant will call the shots soon from a script by Peter Hoare.
Jeong has several films either incoming or still in production, including voice work in** Penguins Of Madagascar **and a role in Ride Along 2. Hasselhoff was last seen in Keith Lemon: The Film (though many are trying to forget that) and has a small cameo in Joe Carnahan’s still-undated Stretch.