Deadline is reporting that Will Ferrell is teaming with Netflix for a feature film based upon the streaming service’s documentary The Legend of Cocaine Island.
Ferrell – who recently wrapped another Netflix comedy in Eurovision – is set to produce and star in the film, which will see him as a small business owner and family man who learns of a legend of a buried stash of $2 million worth of cocaine hidden in the Caribbean, and sets out to retrive the loot with the held of a band of colorful misfits.
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The Legend of Cocaine Island has been scripted by Peter Steinfeld, and Ferrell will produce the film with Jessica Elbaum of Gloria Sanchez and David Permut (Hacksaw Ridge). Theo Love, the director of the documentary, will executive produce.
Ferrell will next be seen alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the Force Majeure remake Downhill, and you can watch the first trailer here.
Originally published December 22, 2019. Updated December 23, 2019.
