Film Music Reporter

Jon Brion has been chosen to provide the original score for the upcoming action cop comedy The Other Guys starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie is directed by Adam McKay, who used Brion on his last movie Step Brothers back in 2008. Ferrell and Wahlberg play two mismatched New York City detectives, who seize an opportunity to step up like the city’s top cops whom they idolize. The movie marks Brion’s first film scoring project in almost 2 years when scored both Step Brothers and Synecdoche, New York. Sony Pictures will release The Other Guys on August 6.