Key and Peele’s ‘Substitute Teacher’ sketch becoming movie courtesy of Paramount

Mr. Garvey

Catching up on the news I didn’t get around to talking about this week: Paramount is bringing the Key and Peele sketch ‘Substitute Teacher’ to the big screen. And while I’m stoked that K&P are getting their due, I’m not sure about the viability of a movie based off of Mr. Garvey.

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Key and Peele are bringing their act to the big screen. Paramount Pictures has picked up Substitute Teacher, based on a sketch from the duo’s popular Comedy Central sketch show.

Keegan-Michael Key will reprise his role as Mr. Garvey, an inner city teacher who thinks his white, middle-class students are messing with him. Get all the latest details on the Substitute Teacher movie after the jump. 

We first got wind of a possible Substitute Teacher movie last year, when it was revealed that Key and partner Jordan Peele were in negotiations with Paramount. At the time we wondered how a brief sketch could be expanded into a full-length feature. Today we have new details to shed some light on that front.

Deadline reports the Substitute Teacher movie will pit Mr. Garvey against a rival teacher played by Peele. In contrast to Mr. Garvey, who distrusts his kids, the other teacher is determined to win them over. Unlike Key, Peele does not play a recurring character in the Substitute Teacher sketches.

Key and Peele co-producers Rich Talarico and Alex Rubens will write the script. Key and Peele will produce along with 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine, plus Principato Young Entertainment’s Peter Principato, Paul Young, and Joel Zadak. No director or other stars have been announced.

Like, half of what is so great about sketch comedy in general is the quick hit nature of the bits. Sure Mr. Garvey (maybe!) can work across multiple sketches. But one continuous full-length flick? I don’t know. How about you? I mean, I hope I’m wrong.