Seth Rogen, Zach Galifianakis and Bill Hader are joining up for a science fiction comedy. It will be released on May 26, 2017.
While Universal originally announced the film as The Something it is now untitled. As Variety points out, the release date will put the film up against Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth film in the Disney franchise.
The comedy is about astronauts that discover a strange craft and are stuck representing humanity, a job they know they aren’t qualified for. It will be rated R and is being produced by Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver’s Point Grey Pictures. The executive producers are Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake of Good Universe.
Rodney Rothman, a writer and producer on the 21 Jump Street movies, will make his directing debut with the film, notes Entertainment Weekly.
Rogen’s next movie is Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, which comes out on May 20. Hader’s voice can be heard in The Angry Birds movie, which comes out on May 20 as well. Lastly, you can see Zach Galifianakis on FX’s Baskets.