{"id":16555,"date":"2012-04-18T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=16555"},"modified":"2012-04-18T12:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:47:55","slug":"cho-joins-universal-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/04\/cho-joins-universal-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Joins Universal Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16558\" title=\"Cho041812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cho041812.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek XI<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>John Cho <\/strong>and<strong> Clark Duke<\/strong> (<em>Hot Tub Time Machine<\/em>) has joined <em>The Identity Thief<\/em>, a Universal comedy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Identity Thief<\/em> is the story of a family man (<strong>Jason Bateman<\/strong>) who &#8220;gets a life-lesson in stepping up when his identity is stolen by a mess of a woman (<strong>Melissa McCarthy<\/strong>).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Cho will play a &#8220;rising investment exec who is starting his own firm&#8221; and wants Bateman&#8217;s character to join him.<\/p>\n<p>Duke will play an Eagle Scout on a &#8220;secret revenge mission to find the man who bilked him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Identity Thief<\/em> is produced by <strong>Scott Stuber <\/strong>and<strong> Pamela Abdy<\/strong>, and executive produced by <strong>Peter Morgan<\/strong>. The comedy will be directed by <strong>Seth Gordon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek XI&#8216;s John Cho and Clark Duke (Hot Tub Time Machine) has joined The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689,2401],"tags":[2510,4285],"class_list":["post-16555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","category-star-trek-xi","tag-cho","tag-identify-thief"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16561,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions\/16561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}