|  Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller are teaming up for "Hardy Men," a buddy action comedy based on the fictional teen sleuths known as the Hardy Boys. The long-in-development project sees the Hardy Boys grown up but not speaking to each other, having been estranged for many years. They are forced to overcome sibling rivalry when they reunite to solve a mystery. Shawn Levy is attached to direct the film for 20th Century Fox, which is hoping for a shoot in 2008. The project is out to writers. Stiller and Levy are stars on the Fox lot thanks to their collaboration on the holiday hit "Night at the Museum," which has earned more than $460 million at the worldwide box office to date. "The Hardy Boys" was a long-running book series that began in 1927 and was written by various ghost writers under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon. The series focused on two teenage brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur detectives who often assisted their father, a private detective, in solving crimes. Cruise and Stiller previously teamed up to shoot a behind-the-scenes spoof of "Mission: Impossible II" for the MTV Movie Awards.
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Since both of them are on my must not see movie list, there is no way in heck I would go to see this. That is my excuse, what will be anyone’s excuse who actually does go to see it? I mean the two of them together doing this story is worse than all Razzie noms put together. Whoever greenlit this movie should be fired before they can say Hardy.
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Ben Stiller will executive produce and direct a half-hour comedy for CBS that will star his wife, Christine Taylor. Variety says CBS has given a pilot commitment to the project, which will be loosely based on Taylor’s life.
Stiller won’t be a series regular, but he is expected to make guest appearances on the show should it get picked up to series.
Ajay Sahgal (It’s a Shame About Ray) will write the pilot and serve as executive producer. CBS sister studio CBS Paramount Network Television will produce.
The project is about an actress married to a movie star who contends with her family members and their involvement in her life. Stiller and Taylor have two kids, but the character will not be a mom.
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Since King of Queens will be done by the time this show might see air, wonder if he will cast his dad too?
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