{"id":1855,"date":"2009-08-02T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2009-08-02T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:06:44","slug":"movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/08\/02\/movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie News: Will Ferrell Leaving Comedy?, &#8220;Alien&#8221; Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; The Risky Biz Blog reports that Will Ferrell is expected to depart sci-fi comedy production &#8220;Neighborhood Watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=\\will ferrell&#038;iid=5516020\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/6\/4\/e\/b\/Chelsea_FC_v_9df2.jpg?adImageId=2074316&#038;imageId=5516020\" width=\"320\" height=\"463\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Chelsea FC v Inter Milan\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script>According to the story, director David Dobkin has walked away from the project.  Ferrell, who had been tapped to star, has not formally left but is expected to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>The film project, which follows an urban man who moves to the suburbs and joins the neighborhood watch, only to uncover an alien plot, has been the subject of industry gossip for a while.  Dobkin&#8217;s exit marks the second time the helmer&#8217;s chair has been vacant&#8211;previously, Shawn Levy had been tapped to direct (he later dropped to a mere producer role, allowing &#8220;Wedding Crashers&#8221; director Dobkin to takeover).<\/p>\n<p>The well-regarded script was penned by Jared Stern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; A prequel to 1979&#8217;s &#8220;Alien&#8221; has been confirmed.  Ridley Scott returns to direct a script from Jon Spaihts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Movie News: Will Ferrell Leaving Comedy?, &quot;Alien&quot; Prequel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-- The Risky Biz Blog reports that Will Ferrell is expected to depart sci-fi comedy production &quot;Neighborhood Watch.&quot; According to the story, director\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/08\/02\/movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Movie News: Will Ferrell Leaving Comedy?, &quot;Alien&quot; Prequel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"-- The Risky Biz Blog reports that Will Ferrell is expected to depart sci-fi comedy production &quot;Neighborhood Watch.&quot; According to the story, director\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/08\/02\/movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-08-02T22:23:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-08-03T01:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/6\/4\/e\/b\/Chelsea_FC_v_9df2.jpg?adImageId=2074316&imageId=5516020\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/08\/02\/movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/08\/02\/movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel\/\",\"name\":\"Movie News: Will Ferrell Leaving Comedy?, \\\"Alien\\\" Prequel\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-02T22:23:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-08-03T01:06:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"-- The Risky Biz Blog reports that Will Ferrell is expected to depart sci-fi comedy production \\\"Neighborhood Watch.\\\" According to the story, director\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/08\/02\/movie-news-will-ferrell-leaving-comedy-alien-prequel\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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