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Disney and Tim Allen Working on Brothers

August 27, 2007 08:40:22 GMT

Walt Disney Pictures has optioned a comedy pitch titled "Brothers" for Tim Allen to pen and possibly star in.
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Good relationship between Walt Disney Pictures and appears to keep moving on well. Set to repeat the successes they both struck through last year's "" and recently-released "", the two are reportedly teaming up again for a new comedy titled simply "Brothers (2008)."

Variety said the funnyman has been attached to topline the project for the studio while also being set to pen its screenplay alongside Matt Carroll, who just sold the script for "" to Columbia Pictures. Story is said to center on a racially mixed pair of adopted brothers who are framed for a crime and forced to team up.

Allen, former member of The Comedy Store, recently wrapped filming "" for Sony Pictures Classics and signed on to play the titular character in indie comedy "." As for Disney, the company has just forged deals with Latin beauty to produce a not-yet-titled romantic comedy that Hayek will star in as well.



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