Hot cannes package: chris hemsworth, tiffany haddish team for buddy action comedy ‘down under cover’

EXCLUSIVE: In what will quickly become one of the hot film packages on the Croisette, Deadline hears that _Avengers: Endgame_‘s Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with _Girls Trip_‘s Tiffany

Haddish on _Down Under Cover_, a two-hander buddy cop action comedy that is being mounted in the spirit of films like _48 Hours, Rush Hour_ and _The Heat_. Script is by Peter Hoare. The

package will be introduced at Cannes by CAA (brokering domestic) and FilmNation, which will handle international sales. Those two have done well making star-driven content available to the

international buying community, with successful recent packages including _355_ — the global spy thriller that sold out to the walls last Cannes, including a $20M Universal U.S. deal for the

Simon Kinberg-directed film that will star Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong’o — the George Miller-directed _3000 Years Of Longing_, and

_Knives Out_, the contained whodunit that Rian Johnson directed with Daniel Craig leading the ensemble cast. In _Down Under Cover_, Hemsworth will play a detective who goes undercover to

crack a series of baffling casino heists in which the prime suspects are a troupe of Australian male erotic dancers. He’s forced to take the partner no one else will — Haddish’s character, a

lone wolf who does things only one way: hers. Together they have to work as an unlikely duo to solve the crime of their careers. Along with the requisite beefcake physique and Aussie

accent, Hemsworth has comic chops he has shown flashes of in films from _Ghostbusters_ to _Thor: Ragnarok_ and_ Avengers: Endgame_. Now he gets the chance to accentuate those skills

alongside Haddish, who established herself as a breakout talent in _Girls Trip_ and _Night School_. She just starred with Elisabeth Moss and Melissa McCarthy in the Andrea Berloff-directed

drama _The Kitchen_, and teamed with Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek in the Miguel Arteta-directed comedy _Limited Partners_. WATCH ON DEADLINE _Down Under Cover_ is being produced by Thematic

Entertainment, the production shingle hatched by Hemsworth, John Finemore, James Hoppe and Ben Grayson. Haddish is producing alongside them.  She’s repped by UTA Artists First and Del Shaw

Moonves. Hoare is Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Hemsworth is repped by CAA, Fourward, and Greenburg Glusker.