Starring Ice Cube and Charlie Day, FIST FIGHT marked Keen’s feature directorial debut. Keen has directed segments of IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, THE GOLDBERGS, and the Kathy Bates Netflix series DISJOINTED. He will direct from a script by Jordan Dunn and Michael Kvamme with Ferrell starring as a member of a professional eSports team, competing in a sport where players usually retire in their 20s due to slowing hand-eye coordination.
Keen will also produce the film alongside Mosaic.
Repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Keen is also attached to direct Michael Keaton in the Boom! Studios comic film adaptation IMAGINE AGENTS.
Ferrell most recently starred with John C. Reilly in “Holmes & Watson.” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.