Slow News Day: Reno-ers Down Under, Ferrell or Die, Chasing Chevy, Wet Hot Karaoke

ITEM: In a new interview with Moviehole, Tom Lennon only-half-jokingly explains his vision for a Reno 911!: Miami sequel, which would send the team to Australia to pull a horny koala off Steven Seagal’s face, among other things. He also reveals that he and Ben Garant are now writing the Mike Myers vehicle How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and are in the early stages of development on a Night at the Museum sequel too, but who gives a shit?

ITEM: With a million views so far, you’ve probably already seen Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s exclusive Internet short The Landlord, but just in case, here it is in all its youthful, foul-mouthed glory. So far, no word on where the hell this thing came from and how start-up video site Funny or Die managed to get a lock on it.

ITEM: Chevy Chase attempts to clear up every rumor he’s ever been attached to in a new Q&A with Time. Among the more interesting revelations: His long-term absence, peppered with phoned-in supporting roles, may be coming to a close now that his daughters have grown up, he only left SNL for a girl, and he claims the damaging gossip about his backstage gay-bashing is 100% fabricated, and that he has the testimony from Will Ferrell to prove it. A far less interesting revelation: he thinks Vegas Vacation was “just OK.”

ITEM: This weekend at a Michael Showalter-hosted magazine premiere party, Paul Rudd and David Wain belted out a no-holds-barred Boston karaoke classic to live accompaniment by champion weirdsters Of Montreal. Fortunately (or maybe not), someone captured it via shitty cell phone camera, and now here it be:

Rudd and Scott Want a New Brother

Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott will star in Big Brother, playing a pair of "perpetual aging frat boys" who are court-ordered to participate in the Big Brother program, where they will probably do a lot of inappropriate things with their assigned kids before finally learning a valuable life lesson. George Lucas in Love co-creator Timothy Dowling wrote the script for Girl Next Door director Luke Greenfield. The film is slated to begin filming in April.

Dowling has several other screenplays in various stages of development, including his long-struggling Outsourced project, which was originally set to be Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's follow-up to Wedding Crashers before that movie blew them up to a new pay grade. However, his Coxblocker script is currently moving forward with Scott and Topher Grace and Employee of the Month director Greg Coolidge (yikes). He also has Born to Rock in the works, a book adaptation about a young Republican Harvard student who goes on tour with his legendary punk-rocker dad.

The very busy Rudd will be on screens soon in Night at the Museum, the clam digger comedy Diggers, David Wain's religious comedy The Ten, Reno 911!: Miami, Amy Heckerling's I Could Never Be Your Woman, Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, and How I Met My Boyfriend's Dead Fiance with Jason Biggs.

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