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Key & Peele developing film around "substitute teacher" character Mr. Garvey

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Between them, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have a growing movie resume, but the success of their comedy show Key and Peele is bringing them new opportunities on the big screen. Key and Peele are producing the new Police Academy reboot, and seem to have a great degree of creative control on that film. They’re also working on a film with Judd Apatow. And now, as the fourth season of Key and Peele premieres they’re working with Paramount on a Substitute Teacher movie, bringing the show’s Mr. Garvey character to the big screen.

EW talked to the duo, and Key said of the Mr. Garvey movie,

"We’re in negotiations at Paramount to make a Substitute Teacher movie. Two of our writers are penning it. Well, they’re not penning it as we speak — it’s getting there."

How to make that into a movie? Obviously that’s just one comic idea, but if the writers expand the idea of the guy who persistently misunderstands the culture around him into a bigger idea, there could be a lot of ground to cover.

They also talked about the new Police Academy movie they’re producing. Peele explained,

"We were brought on to take the creative lead with it. We got two of our friends, Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen [The Mindy Project] — brilliant, funny men. They’re going to be penning the script. When we start working with the script and seeing it, we’ll make the decision [of whether or not to be in the film]. Is Key and Peele a distraction from Police Academy? We’ll figure it out. Either way, we’ll make the best call for the movie."

The Judd Apatow movie is starting over with a new idea, with Key saying “There was an idea with Judd, [but] we’re not doing that idea anymore. Now we’re going to start from ground zero and start all over again.” And Peele is developing a horror film with Darko Entertainment that he wants to direct.
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Here are the sketches where the character "Mr. Garvey" comes from:

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As a waiter named Aaron, this skit has made me hate this show with a fiery passion...I cannot tell you how many customers I've had call me A-A-Ron and then asked if I had seen this Fucking thing.
 
ChaosXVI said:
As a waiter named Aaron, this skit has made me hate this show with a fiery passion...I cannot tell you how many customers I've had call me A-A-Ron and then asked if I had seen this Fucking thing.
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That sucks. We hired an Aaron in QA recently, and he is also now called A-a-ron.

I'd feel bad about calling him that if I wasn't a redhead and South Park didn't exist.
 
Man, all this hate for Key and Peele, I fucking love these guys.

Dude, they should've made a movie about the Valet guys.

AIN'T NOBODY GONNA MESS WITH THE BATMANS.
 
Not sure what they could do to keep the skit's premise in mind while expanding on the substitute-teacher topic. Riding the fad didn't always work for SNL, as Night at the Roxbury can show.
 
Run Ronnie Run, as a good non SNL movie, too.
 
ChaosXVI said:
As a waiter named Aaron, this skit has made me hate this show with a fiery passion...I cannot tell you how many customers I've had call me A-A-Ron and then asked if I had seen this Fucking thing.
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Could you explain (not a native english speaker here) how come people pronounce it Erin and not Aron? It always bugs me XD
 
ChaosXVI said:
As a waiter named Aaron, this skit has made me hate this show with a fiery passion...I cannot tell you how many customers I've had call me A-A-Ron and then asked if I had seen this Fucking thing.
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Well you gotta just tell them to PUT THE PUSSY ON THE CHAINWAX
 
It has a chance, but we all know the Right Answer is a big-budget Theatrical Magic Negro Battle---that skit was peak madness in the best possible way for them thus far
 
I'm rarely a big fan of these things being turned into movies...

unless it's called Night at the Roxbury. That movie was fantastic.
 
Slayven said:
Has a movie based on a sketch comedy character ever been good?
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It's funny. It says so right on the box. It has to be true.
 
Key and Peele are black but this strikes me as a little racist (towards black people). Am I being too sensitive here?

Edit: Going back to the reason Chapelle quit his show, I could very easily see this being part of what made him leave. The whole "wrong kind of laugh" deal. Could easily see people I grew up watching this kinda thing and be "huh huh black kid has a kid already and black people have funny names hurhur"
 
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