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Exclusive: Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx Set for Buddy-Cop Movie Streets on Fire

Lethal Weapon Meets Serpico Meets a Bad Cast / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | February 25, 2010 | Comments (10)

Has anyone realized that there hasn’t been a major buddy cop film (save for Rush Hour 3) since Hot Fuzz basically came in and blew up all the buddy-cop conventions? It took three years for anyone to gain the courage to return to the subgenre, and it’s Kevin Smith’s Cop Out, which is not exactly an exciting return.

The buddy cop genre may be making a comeback, however. Ashton Kutcher, via his Katalyst Films shingle, is producing Streets on Fire, a buddy cop action-comedy drama (which one?) with designs to star. His partner? Jamie Foxx. (Maybe they hit it off on the set of Valentine’s Day.) Let’s see here: One black, one white partner. Check. One by the books, one freewheeling partner? Check. And one with facial hair, one without? Check. Ladies and gentlemen: The buddy-cop trifecta!

The script, which was on the 2009 Black List, comes from Justin Britt-Gibson, a 27-year-old freelance journalist slash screenwriter who once wrote quite an impressive piece on race relations for the Washington Post. And while I’m sure the script must have been decent if it made the Black List, the logline is typical of buddy cop movies: It’s about a straight arrow Chicago cop with anger issues (Foxx) who teams up with a brash and cocky one (Kutcher), and the two “become anything other than friends.” They stumble into a gang of killers intercepting the city’s drugs, and reluctantly agree to work together on the case, only to find out that the vicious gang is actually made up of dirty cops.

So, Lethal Weapon meets Serpico?

Well, who better to honor the tradition of those two fine movies than Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx. Amiright?

(Source: The Indomitable and Dashing Hollywood Cog)


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Comments

I'll give it a shot. I kind of miss the genre, which is probably why I gave Rush Hour 3 a chance at all.

Hot Fuzz was everything I wanted a buddy cop movie to be, but now I'm really feeling the dearth.

Posted by: Snath at February 25, 2010 11:38 AM

I will not sully my brain with anything that has Ashton Kutcher in it, full stop.

Posted by: Jerce at February 25, 2010 11:41 AM

In a way, I actually appreciate Ashton Kutcher. His involvement in any project gives me an easy-to-read sign to avoid it at all costs. If he were a disease, he'd be leprosy.

Posted by: Gozer at February 25, 2010 11:44 AM

That '70s Show didn't suffer for Kutcher's involvement. Anything after that, though...

Posted by: Rykker at February 25, 2010 11:53 AM

"That '70s Show didn't suffer for Kutcher's involvement."

No, it suffered from being a really shitty TV show.

Posted by: I Love Beets at February 25, 2010 12:03 PM

Cripes. One of the most talentless, pretending-to-be-suave-but-seriously-creepy pseudo-rap stars around, and the screechiest, most annoying pretty-boys around? together in a movie? HELL NO.

Posted by: figgy at February 25, 2010 12:13 PM

most annoying pretty-boys around

See, I don't get it figgy; I can agree with the annoying part, but pretty? Really? I don't understand you girls sometimes. I'm self confident enough to call a guy good looking, someone like, oh, say, The Statham, or maybe geep, but Kutcher? I just don't see it.

Posted by: Xtreme at February 25, 2010 12:17 PM

I don't find him attractive at ALL, but I can see why some chicks fawn over him. He's got this stupid-cute-boy thing going on and a nice, dopey smile and the heavy eyebrows. He's a pretty-boy. I hate him but he's really not bad-looking if that's your type.

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Posted by: Jim at February 26, 2010 1:21 AM

When I first saw this, I thought they were remaking "Streets of Fire.", which I've always liked as an oddball but cool action flick (sorta like a Dr. Pepper of action movies).

Thank god I misread...though Ashton Kutcher probably has about the range of Michael Pare.

Posted by: Jacktrade at February 26, 2010 11:55 AM





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