5,6,7,8…A24’s ‘Dicks The Musical’ Trailer Has Some Singin’, Some Dancin’, and Some Megan Thee Stallion
A24 is ready to kick up its heels and burst into song.
The independent studio, known more for high concept and edgy fare like Everything, Everywhere All at Once, which won an Oscar for Best Picture last year, and horror films like Pearl and X, is branching out into movie musicals for the first time with Dicks: The Musical.
Dicks: The Musical features Megan Thee Stallion as the rapping “lady boss” of two, well, dickish New York City businessmen who realize they are long-lost twins and try to reunite their parents.
In the trailer, screenwriters Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp play Craig Tiddle and Trevor Brock, who upon starting to work at the same job (under Stallion’s leadership) realize they each own one half of a heart-shaped locket that indicates they are brothers.
Between this discovery and their boss’s assertion that the pair look like twins, the newfound brothers try to trick their divorced parents (played by Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally) into getting back together, a la The Parent Trap – but R-rated.
Larry Charles (Borat) directs and the movie is produced by Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping, along with Charles and Kori Adelson. Jackson and Sharp wrote the original songs for the film with Karl Saint Lucy. The film is based on Jackson and Sharp’s two-man show (F*cking Identical Twins) from Upright Citizens Brigade in 2014. Bowen Yang also stars – as God.
The film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival beginning September 7th and hits theaters September 29th. A24 received waivers for production on some projects during the SAG-AFTRA strike.