When Andy Samberg left the cast of Saturday Night time Reside in 2012, he took the convey’s extremely common “Digital Shorts” franchise with him. Now, it seems like Samberg and his Lonely Island crew — Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — will get an opportunity to convey their distinctive brand of hip hop comedy to the big display in a brand new movie produced via Judd Apatow.

Variety is reporting that Common Pictures is developing an untitled film on the way to superstar the three members of The Lonely Island. Schaffer and Taccone are set to co-direct and Apatow will function an govt producer.

Not like the rest of SNL’s content, The Lonely Island’s digital shorts live on the staff’s YouTube channel, which boasts greater than 5.8 million subscribers. Their most popular video, “I Simply Had Intercourse” that includes Akon, has been considered just about 220 million times. They first burst onto the scene with “Lazy Sunday” on SNL all of the way again in 2005 and have due to the fact that put out three albums, Incredibad, Turtleneck & Chain and The Wack Album.

No phrase yet on the inevitable Justin Timberlake cameo within the upcoming movie:

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