Harrison Ford and Ed Helms set to headline aquatic comedy called The Miserable Adventures of Burt Squire Aboard the Horn High Yo
Harrison Ford and Ed Helms are set to work together on a new movie titled The Miserable Adventures of Burt Squire Aboard the Horn High Yo.
According to a studio synopsis from STXfilms, the film starring Ford, 78, and Helms, 46, is ‘inspired by a true story’ of a ‘family man … in the midst of a midlife crisis who embarks on what he hopes will be a dream sailing vacation, but ends up shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean with Ford’s charming but unhinged sea captain.’
STXfilms’s Adam Fogelson said in a statement that the combination in the aquatic film makes for comedy gold.
Dynamic duo: Harrison Ford, 78, and Ed Helms, 46, are set to work together on a new movie titled The Miserable Adventures of Burt Squire Aboard the Horn High Yo
‘There’s no one better than Ed Helms to play an everyday guy who gets saddled with every comedic misfortune life could throw his way,’ Fogelson said, ‘and Harrison is going to create yet another memorable and iconic character as an unhinged sea captain.’
Fogelson added: ‘Instead of a road-trip comedy, we can’t wait to see these unlikely buddies in this seafaring comedy.’
Ford in recent years has appeared in Amazon’s The Call of the Wild, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker and Blade Runner 2049, with upcoming projects including an Indiana Jones movie and a TV project called The Staircase.
Helms, best known for his dry brand of comedy in The Office TV show and The Hangover films, has been seen recently on the Netflix action comedy Coffee and Kareem with Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Little Gardenhigh.
Ford in recent years has appeared in Amazon’s The Call of the Wild, Star Wars: Episode IX
Helms was seen with his Hangover costar Zach Galifianakis earlier this year in LA