Will Ferrell Set To Develop and Star in Golf Comedy Series with Rian Johnson Producing

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Will Ferrell and producing partner Jessica Elbaum’s Gloria Sanchez Productions is teaming up with Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street to develop a comedy TV series which will take place in the professional golf world and will star Ferrell in the leading role.

The project, which is shaping up to become one of the biggest TV comedy packages to hit the marketplace in awhile, “revolves around a professional golfer who becomes the face of a controversial new league competing with the PGA.”

While fictional, the story would inevitably draw parallels to the controversial LIV Golf startup. It also evokes one of Ferrell’s signature movies, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The series is in a similar tone, and Deadline reports it will bring Ferrell back to the sports arena he also explored in Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro.

This sounds like a funny series, and a perfect project for Ferrell! Will you check it out when it hits TV?

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