{"id":533408,"date":"2026-03-19T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:11:12","slug":"marlon-wayans-keke-palmer-movie-ride-or-die-acquired-by-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533408\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlon Wayans, Keke Palmer Movie ‘Ride or Die’ Acquired by Lionsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Lionsgate<\/a> has acquired\u00a0Ride or Die<\/a>, a romantic buddy action-comedy with Marlon Wayans<\/a> and Keke Palmer<\/a> attached to star.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe feature project centers on robbery detective Martin Banks (Wayans), a consummate professional, and narcotics detective and unapologetic butt-kicker Tami Moore (Palmer). Sparks and bullets fly when these opposites are partnered to track down a billion-dollar cache of deadly opioids stolen from the vault of a multinational pharmaceutical company that threaten to flood the streets of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Lionsgate<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLionsgate<\/p>\n

\n\tWayans describes the film, which is being billed as the first romantic buddy-cop action comedy, as\u00a0When Harry Met Sally\u00a0with guns.<\/p>\n

\n\tWayans wrote the screenplay with Rick Alvarez. Pic will be produced by Wayans and Alvarez through their company Ugly Baby, and by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher through Moritz\u2019s Original Film. Palmer and her mother, Sharon Palmer, are also in talks to EP.<\/p>\n

\n\tScott O\u2019Brien is overseeing the project for Lionsgate. Robert Melnik negotiated the deals for the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tWayans most recently starred in\u00a0Him, produced by Jordan Peele, and upcoming stars alongside his fellow original castmates in the anticipated\u00a0Scary Movie, which he also wrote and produced with Alvarez. The actor is repped by 3 Arts, UTA, and Yorn, Levine. Alvarez is repped by 3 Arts, UTA, and Yorn, Levine.<\/p>\n

\n\tPalmer\u2019s latest movie, I Love Boosters, just had its world premiere at SXSW<\/a>. That Boots Riley-directed comedy comes out over Memorial Day weekend. Palmer also stars in Peacock\u2019s comedy series The Burbs, and was recently honored as the NAACP Image Awards\u2019 Entertainer of the Year. Coming out is MGM\u2019s\u00a0Spaceballs 2. She previously starred in\u00a0One of Them Days,\u00a0Nope\u00a0from\u00a0Jordan Peele,\u00a0Good Fortune\u00a0directed by\u00a0Aziz Ansari, and Amazon\u2019s\u00a0The Pickup alongside\u00a0Eddie Murphy and\u00a0Pete Davidson.\u00a0She\u00a0is a 2023 Emmy winner for NBC\u2019s\u00a0Password\u00a0with Jimmy Fallon\u00a0and hosts the award-winning podcast Baby, This Is Keke Palmer\u00a0for Wondery. Palmer is represented by 3 Arts and Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk.<\/p>\n

\n\tOriginal Film is now in production on\u00a0Highlander\u00a0with director Chad Stahelski, and on\u00a0Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The company also has the feature\u00a0Beach Read\u00a0for 20th Century, and a live-action\u00a0Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\u00a0for Paramount. In television, Season 5 of The Boys will premiere next week, and the company is in post-production on the spinoff show S.W.A.T. Exiles, with God of the Woods set to start this summer for Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Lionsgate has acquired\u00a0Ride or Die, a romantic buddy action-comedy with Marlon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,3360,14968,46991,206,239620],"class_list":["post-533408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-keke-palmer","tag-lionsgate","tag-marlon-wayans","tag-movies","tag-ride-or-die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}