Faking It In “LET’S BE COPS” Trailer and Poster Released!
“Let’s Be Cops” is the ultimate
buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police
officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly minted “heroes” get
tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put
their fake badges on the line.
Faking it real time, these fake cops
have just found some real trouble.
Starring Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson, The idea for the movie was born when
director/co-writer Luke Greenfield decided to spend Halloween in a police
officer’s uniform – a choice that had unexpected consequences.
“My costume designer at the time got
me a real LAPD uniform and my buddy and I walked around Los Angeles,”
Greenfield remembers. “The sense of power and authority was incredible. I was
single at the time, and it became quite easy to talk to women on the street.”
With co-writer and executive producer Nicholas Thomas, Greenfield
developed the pitch that was to become LET’S BE COPS. “We came up with the idea
quite quickly,” says Thomas. “We pitched the project to 20th Century Fox, and
it sold.”
“The two lead characters have no
money and their self-worth is gone,” says Greenfield. “Then, all of a sudden,
they are street heroes. Their fun masquerade escalates to the point where it
starts getting dangerous and they mess with the wrong people.”
The two writers created the two
principal characters somewhat in their own images. “Justin is me,” says
Greenfield. “He’s passionate about what he creates in the videogame world, as I
am about my motion picture projects. Only he’s afraid to be direct and
authoritative. Ryan is sort of based on Nick Thomas. He is more outspoken and
braver, and more likely to get us both into hot water.”
The first thing the filmmakers did after
getting the production green light was cast the lead characters, Justin and
Ryan. They chose two comic actors who were actually close pals.
“Damon and Jake are close friends, big fans of
one another’s work and had been dying to do a film together,” Greenfield
adds. “Casting them was incredible luck,
because throughout production they were always off in a corner, laughing and
joking just like their characters. The characters audiences will see on screen
are very close to who Damon and Jake really are. It was fantastic.”
Rated R16 by the local censors
board, “Let’s Be Cops” opens November 5 in cinemas nationwide from 20th
Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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