A couple of weeks ago it was announced that with their biopic of The Three Stooges getting delayed, The Farrelly Brothers were rushing the movie Hall Pass into production, with Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis set to star.
Now comes news (via THR) that the Marley & Me actor has an on-screen wife in the form of Jenna Fischer, best known as the US Office’s Pam Beesly. The basic premise of Hall Pass is that Wilson and Sudeikis are married men who get a free pass from their wives for a week, allowing them total freedom to go wild and engage in extramarital encounters. While the guys discover it’s more difficult to be debaucherous in their hometown than they expected, further complications arise when their wives also start using their ‘hall pass’ powers.
Fischer will play Wilson’s wife in the movie, although as yet there’s nobody signed up as a spouse for Sudeikis.
Hall Pass certainly has an interesting premise, presumably with the men realising the double standard of wanting freedom for themselves, while getting all jealous and angsty when their wives demand the same thing. We’ll just have to wait and see whether the Farrelly’s can keep their gross-out instincts in check to produce something that’s both funny and worthwhile – after all, a comedy about guilt-free adultery isn’t your usual comedy fare.
Filming on Hall Pass starts next month in Atlanta.