EXCLUSIVE: After Sony Pictures Entertainment worked with Kevin James in the hits Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Grown Ups, and then slotted The Zookeeper for a July 8, 2011 release, the studio's doing its best to keep the actor in a submission hold. Studio has made a deal for an untitled mix martial arts comedy vehicle for James to shoot next year. The script will be written by Allan Loeb, and James is producing with Todd Garner. James is attached to play a physics teacher whose school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martial arts fighter, ultimately leading to brawling in the UFC. The film is on a fast track, and production presidents Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad hope to get it into production next year. Jeff Sussman will be exec producer.
James has really proven himself after moving into features following his King of Queens series run, starting with Hitch and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Garner and James produced the SPE/MGM co-production The Zookeeper with Happy Madison's Sandler and Jack Giarraputo.
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