Rock That Body Cast: Scarlett Johansson & More. Posted on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2.
Angie Han. We’ve seen Scarlett Johansson do everything from arthouse sci- fi to indie rom- com to big- budget action over the past few years, but her latest new project, Rock That Body, takes her into still new territory: the R- rated comedy. Luckily, she’ll have some experienced comedy vets on hand to help her out. Kate Mc. Kinnon (Ghostbusters), Jillian Bell (2. Jump Street), and Ilana Glazer (Broad City) have just joined Johansson and Zo. Downs and Lucia Aniello. Downs (who also plays Trey on Broad City) will co- star, and Aniello will direct.
Aniello and Downs’ Rock That Body script landed on the Black List last year, back when it was titled Move That Body. The story revolves around five friends who rent a beach house in Miami for a wild bachelorette weekend, and accidentally end up killing a male stripper. Character details have not been revealed, but we’re guessing Johansson, Kravitz, Mc. Kinnon, Bell, and Glazer play the friends and Downs will be the stripper.
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Sony scooped up the project last summer after a fierce bidding war, and according to THR, the studio sees Rock That Body as a “complement” to their other high- profile female- driven comedy, the Ghostbusters reboot coming out next month. That seems a little reductive — is it really so crazy to have more than one female- driven comedy simmering at a time, that we need to justify it by comparing it to a completely unrelated project?
She was last seen on the big screen in The Night Before, which also starred Bell. Bell is also part of the Comedy Central family thanks to Workaholics and Idiotsitter, and her big- screen credits include 2. Jump Street and Goosebumps. Coming up next for Bell are The Angry Birds Movie and Office Christmas Party, both of which also feature Mc.
Kinnon. And Mc. Kinnon, as you already know, is a Saturday Night Live alum who stars in the Ghostbusters reboot. There’s no doubt that Glazer, Bell, and Mc. Kinnon will bring the funny, but it should be interesting to see how they bounce off of Johansson and Kravitz, who are relatively less experienced with comedy. Both have some lighter material on their resume, but are better known for dramas and blockbusters.
Buy Rock that Body: Read Digital Music Reviews - Amazon.com. Demi Moore is set to join the Rock That Body cast opposite Starring alongside Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Illana Glazer, Kate McKinnon and Zoe Kravitz.