Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have greenlighted their first movie, and it has nothing to do with substitute teachers with anger management issues. In fact, it has nothing to do with any of the projects they said they were working on in their Entertainment Weekly interview last month, a skillful bit of misdirection that is making us feel a little silly in hindsight.
Instead, the project is called Keanu and will star Key and Peele as two guys who pose as drug dealers to retrieve their eponymous stolen cat, a premise that still allows for plenty of goofy wigs and funny mispronunciations of peoples’ names. New Line President of Production Richard Brenner tells Deadline that he pushed the duo towards a “broad comedy” with a “larger footprint” than their initial concept, industry shorthand for “is there any way we can make this dumber and more expensive?” Keanu was co-written by Alex Rubens, a writer on Key & Peele who also wrote the Community episode “Cooperative Polygraphy.”