{"id":682834,"date":"2026-07-09T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682834\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:56:08","slug":"dave-franco-and-oshay-jackson-jr-make-a-stupid-midnight-run-in-the-idiots-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682834\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Franco and O&#8217;Shay Jackson Jr. make a stupid midnight run in the Idiots trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don\u2019t need to tell our genius readers that stupidity is making a comeback. Thankfully, that contagious brainlessness is finally returning to the screen. This month, we\u2019re blessed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new David Wain movie<\/a>, and next month, Idiots are driving into theaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest from longtime Jeremy Saulnier collaborator Macon Blair, the director behind the surprisingly good Toxic Avenger reboot, Idiots takes a Pineapple Express approach to Midnight Run. Appropriately starring Dave Franco and O\u2019Shay Jackson Jr., the movie follows a scumbag (Franco) and a God-fearing Christian (Davis) who hit rock bottom and take a job at a transportation service for drug-addicted rich kids. After picking up their rider (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/regretting-you-black-phone-box-office-halloween\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMr. October\u201d Mason Thames<\/a>), who\u2019s not only a prolific acid user but violently dangerous, the chase is on with a host of stupid characters on their tail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blair has been pushing the film uphill since 2017. Originally titled The Shitheads (a fantastic title), the film was originally set to star Luke Wilson and Tracy Morgan. Nearly a decade later, Franco joined as a producer and star, and the blessedly 98-minute-long comedy was off to the races. The movie also stars Toxie himself, Peter Dinklage, Kiernan Shipka, Blair\u2019s Lowdown co-star Killer Mike, and Nicholas Braun as the SoundCloud rapper Pricka Bush Da Werewoof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Idiots opens in theaters on August 28.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t need to tell our genius readers that stupidity is making a comeback. Thankfully, that contagious brainlessness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}