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Getty ImagesScreenwriter Etan Cohen, best known for Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3, has closed a deal to make his directorial debut with Get Hard, a Warner Bros. comedy that has Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart attached to star.
Hard centers on an investment banker who, after being wrongly sentenced to prison, asks the guy who washes his car to help him prepare to do hard time.
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Ian Roberts and Jay Martel wrote the script. Ferrell and Adam McKay are producing via their Gary Sanchez Productions, while Sarah Schechter is overseeing for the studio.
Cohen is repped by CAA, Mosaic and Lichter Grossman.
