{"id":113361,"date":"2016-12-07T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113361"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:10:57","slug":"will-ferrell-to-star-as-professional-esports-player-in-upcoming-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113361-will-ferrell-to-star-as-professional-esports-player-in-upcoming-comedy","title":{"rendered":"Will Ferrell to star as professional eSports player in upcoming comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Ferrell will star as a professional eSports player in as yet untitled <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legendary_Entertainment\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary Studios<\/a><\/strong> comedy, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/news\/will-ferrell-esports-comedy-legendary-1201934988\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the film is still in early production. it is heavily hinted that Ferrell will star as the leader of a fictional eSports team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the film he plays an anomaly in a sport where players usually retire in their 20s due to slowing hand-eye coordination.<\/p>\n<p>MGOs Evil Geniuses and Fnatic are already in discussion to have a presence in the film&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrell is currently in the process of wrapping up current film &#8220;Homes and Watson&#8221; in which he stars alongside John C. Reilly.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/111467-ster-kinekor-and-nu-metro-movie-ticket-prices-in-south-africa-this-december.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ster-Kinekor and Nu Metro movie ticket prices in South Africa this December<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Ferrell will star as a professional eSports player in as yet untitled Legendary comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":113363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,1611,6402,23699],"class_list":["post-113361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-esports","tag-movies","tag-will-ferrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}