Zachary Levi To Return To The Spy Comedy Genre In Lonely Island-Produced ‘Spy Guys’
By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 25, 2019 10:30 am EST
Adam Sztykiel penned the script for the film, which is produced by John Rickard (Rampage and the Horrible Bosses films), and the Lonely Island team of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer.
But it’s Levi’s return to the spy comedy genre that piques my interest. Levi had his breakout role in the NBC action-comedy series Chuck, in which he starred as a computer geek who accidentally becomes an asset to the U.S. government. It was a silly, smart revamp of the Get Smart dynamic that allowed Levi to stretch his comedy chops and hone his charisma — something that he used to maximum effect in Tangled and, of course, Shazam! It will be exciting to see him return to the spy comedy genre but in a reversed role: this time he’s playing the efficient super spy instead of the dorky nerd. It would be worth it to see him make a nod to this:
