The Shitheads with Dave Franco, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Mason Thames gets retitled and secures a summer release date
The Shitheads
Macon Blair comes off of Legendary’s The Toxic Avenger remake to an indie film with the irreverent title The Shitheads. Blair has been kicking The Shitheads around for a while with a 2017 version of the comedy starring Luke Wilson and Tracy Morgan. The final product stars Dave Franco (Day Shift, Now You See Me 2, The Disaster Artist), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Straight Outta Compton, Cocaine Bear), Mason Thames (How to Train Your Dragon, The Black Phone 2) and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, The Toxic Avenger, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).
Idiots
Unsurprisingly, The Shitheads has gotten a more marquee-friendly title for mass release, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Much like how David O’Russell once had a big studio film titled American Bullshit get changed to American Hustle, Blair’s The Shitheads is now simply titled Idiots.
Idiots “follows cynical degenerate Mark (Franco) and bumbling idealist Davis (Jackson) as they’ve both hit rock bottom. Paired for a job by a shady transport service, their task seems simple: transport Sheridan, a wealthy troubled teen, to rehab. But Sheridan has other plans and what starts as a simple road trip becomes an unhinged odyssey of drug-fueled disasters, near-death experiences, and criminal encounters. Out of their minds and in way over their heads, Mark and Davis find the courage to face their failures and realize that it’s not the destination that matters, it’s the shitheads you meet along the way.”
THR also reports that the film has secured a release date for late summer on August 28.
What’s being said about Idiots?
Our Chris Bumbray got to screen the film at Sundance and had a less-than-stellar reaction to it, only giving it 5/10. He stated, “Simply put, The Shitheads is all over the place, being a stoner comedy one moment and a violent thriller the next. Blair did something similar in his previous I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, but he had stars Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood to ground it. He doesn’t have the same luck in The Shitheads. Both Franco and Jackson are good (and Thames makes for a convincing sociopath), but they come off as caricatures rather than real people, and that keeps Blair’s film from feeling as well thought out as his previous work.
While some may appreciate The Shitheads for its big tonal swings, as a movie it feels consistently unsatisfying, even if it undeniably has its moments. It’s not a terrible movie, but it’s a frustrating one in how it comes “close” to working at times but never quite comes together as a whole.”
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