Even though Melissa McCarthy was just recently confirmed as one of the new Ghostbusters in director Paul Feig's all-female reboot alongside Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, she's got another comedy that will get off the ground before then. Michelle Darnell is another comedy set up at Universal Pictures with McCarthy in the lead as a character the actress created herself. In what sounds like a spiritual sequel to the forthcoming comedy Get Hard, the film is said to follow a titan of industry sent to prison after she’s convicted of insider trading. Once released, she aims to be rebranded as America's next sweetheart.
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