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Downey Jr. Starring Opposite 'Hangover's Zach Galifianakis in 'Due Date'

Phillips may be on a role...

BY: Brad Brevet | July 24th 2009 at 6:54 PM

Entertainment Weekly is reporting exclusively that Robert Downey Jr. has signed on to star opposite Zach Galifianakis in Todd Phillips' follow-up to The Hangover for Warner Bros. called Due Date.

The film centers on an expectant dad (Downey Jr.) and his unlikely travel companion (Galifianakis) race cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child. EW's Nicole Sperling adds, "Think Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Downey in the straight-man Steve Martin role."

Due Date was written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, with a revision by Adam Sztykiel and a release date of June 4, 2010 has already been slotted.

The film will be the go-between for Phillips who is expected to direct The Hangover 2 for a May 27, 2011. Certainly it appears Todd Phillips is on a role and landing Downey in his next film ups the expectation that much more.

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So let me get this straight: It's a road trip buddy comedy by Todd Phillips starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis?

I think I'm gonna track down Phillips and just hand him my ten dollars now.

- Trevor
( July 24th, 2009 | 10:11 pm )
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I'm only commenting on this because it's raining outside and I'm bored. I don't like Comedies because I rarely find them funny. I didn't think the Hangover was all that it started off okay, but then got kind of goofy towards the end. I didn't laugh out loud once. So not really looking forward to the Hangover part 2. I normally like RDJ, but not looking forward to this because as I said I don't really like Comedies.

Some Comedies I did like

Office Space
The Original Friday
Pineapple Express
Mean Girls
Some Like It Hot
I guess Legally Blonde and The Devil Wears Prada are comedies, I liked them a lot but didn't really laugh a lot.

I don't know about this film

- beautifulm
( July 24th, 2009 | 10:35 pm )
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That's gonna be the highest grossing movie of next year

- Nick
( July 25th, 2009 | 1:28 am )
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This sounds great since I am a huge Downey Jr. fan.

I believe you meant to say that Phillips is "on a roll" rather than "on a role." It is a pretty common mistake.

- Kevin
( July 25th, 2009 | 6:22 am )
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this movie is recording in las cruces nm all this month traffic is hectic hope its a good movie !!!!!

- capone1216
( October 7th, 2009 | 6:07 pm )
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