Following his supporting role in recent seasons of HBO‘s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” actor Vince Vaughn is set to lead the comedic series “Bad Monkey” on Apple TV+, an adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen novel from “Ted Lasso” co-creator Bill Lawrence. Vaughn plays Andrew Yancy, a former Miami cop currently working as a Health Inspector leading to a whodunit when a boating accident starts to unravel as a possible murder case.
Vaughn is also getting an excellent support system around him. Deadline reports that a trio of actresses have joined “Bad Monkey” with Michelle Monaghan (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang“) playing Bonnie, Jodie Turner-Smith (“Without Remorse“) as Gracie/Dragon Queen, and finally Meredith Hagner (“Search Party“) as Eve, the wife of the dead man at the center of the story.
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“Bad Monkey” certainly sounds like it’ll be in the vein of things like “Inherent Vice” or “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which should be exciting for folks that crave crime stories that often take themselves super seriously and follow a conventional path. The South Florida setting should also help differentiate itself from other crime series of this ilk.
Here’s how the 2013 novel is described on Carl Hiaasen’s official website:
“Andrew Yancy–late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office–has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events–from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island–with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy’s new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey, who earns his place among Hiaasen’s greatest characters with hilariously wicked aplomb”