Prepare for musical comedy earworms that aren’t secure for work. “Dicks: The Musical,” indie distributor A24’s first-ever musical comedy, is coming to theaters Sept. 29 — and its first trailer previews hilariously absurd performances from Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang, Megan Thee Stallion and inventive duo Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who additionally wrote the script and ebook.
Larry Charles of “Seinfeld” and “Borat” fame directs.
As introduced Thursday, “Dicks” — renamed from authentic title “F***ing Equivalent Twins” — will make its World Premiere because the opening night time movie of Midnight Insanity on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The official synopsis of the discharge reads: “Two self-obsessed businessmen (writers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp) uncover they’re long-lost similar twins and are available collectively to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced mother and father, on this riotously humorous and wicked musical from comedy icon Larry Charles (“Seinfeld,” “Borat”) additionally starring Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang as God.”
The trailer teases that the twins’ “Mother or father Journey”-inspired plot hiccups, nonetheless, when Lane’s father character — as apparently flamboyant as Mullally’s mom is eccentric — reveals that he’s homosexual. It additionally teases numerous different gags together with Megan Thee Stallion as “a girl boss” and Yang as a golden deity.
Primarily based on the musical stage play “F*cking Equivalent Twins: The Musical,” “Dicks” additionally options music by Karl Saint Lucy and an authentic rating by Marius de Vries and Karl Saint Lucy for what the trailer jokes are “hit songs” like “Homosexual Outdated Life,” “All Love Is Love,” “Out-Alpha the Alpha” and “The Sewer Tune.”
Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping, the crew behind “The Biggest Showman,” produces. Additionally hooked up as producers are Kori Adelson and Jeffrey Pinto-Lobo, Adam Feil as co-producer and Jeremy Reitz and James Spetner as government producers.
Watch the primary trailer within the video above.
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