Cooper And Reynolds To Be Buddy Cops

The buddy cop genre was really birthed with Lethal Weapon back in 1987 and to this day it remains the definitive movie in the genre, however news arrives today from Risky Business that a new contender is entering the ring as Bradly Cooper and Ryan Reynolds are set to team up in a Sheldon Turner scripted action comedy.

Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are signing up for take-your-dads-to-work day.

The busy actors are attached to star in an untitled original action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner (“Up in the Air”), who snagged north of seven figures for the gig. The story follows two friends, who are also San Francisco cops, whose fathers were once partners on the police force. The older generation is forced out of retirement to help their sons crack a case, with typically antagonistic results.

The actioner is meant to have an updated “Lethal Weapon” flavor that plays into edgier R-rated territory.

This sounds more comedy-centric than Lethal Weapon although inevitably that film is listed as the movie they are aiming to replciate, the addition of the dads could go either way, making things either very silly or if cast well and scripted smartly, a cool twist to the genre.