--- description: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will star as two rival teachers title: Key & Peele's 'Substitute Teacher' Coming to the Big Screen image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b2025abc862175/698785268e0601736145af05/ap980071477051-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Key & Peele's _Substitute Teacher_ Coming to the Big Screen by [Dan Snierson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Dan Snierson / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 25, 2015 2:18 PM CUT  Jordan Peele (L) and Keegan-Michael Key (R) arrive at the 32nd Annual Paleyfest : "A Salute to Comedy Central" in Los Angeles on March 7, 2015. Jordan Peele (L) and Keegan-Michael Key (R) arrive at the 32nd Annual Paleyfest : "A Salute to Comedy Central" in Los Angeles on March 7, 2015.Richard Shotwell—AP by [Dan Snierson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Dan Snierson / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 25, 2015 2:18 PM CUT Key & Peele are bringing some class to the big screen. Paramount has signed on for a movie version of the duo’s popular sketch “Substitute Teacher” from their Comedy Central series, the studio confirmed today. ([_Deadline_](http://deadline.com/2015/03/substitute-teacher-key-and-peele-paramount-pictures-comedy-central-feature-1201398062/ "undefined") first reported the news.) Written by _Key & Peele_ co-producers Rich Talarico and Alex Rubens, the film will star Keegan-Michael Key again as the easily agitated Mr. Garvey, a substitute teacher from the inner city who pronounces the names of his suburban high school white students a little differently during roll call. Jordan Peele will play a rival teacher who is aiming to win over the students. Before school is in session, though, Key and Peele will be studiously working on another film. Next month, the pair are slated to begin shooting _Keanu_, a New Line feature penned by Peele and Rubens about two buddies who pretend to be drug dealers as part of a scheme to retrieve a stolen cat. Key and Peele also signed a deal in late 2013 to write a big-screen project with Judd Apatow that they would star in. The duo will be back on the small screen soon as _Key & Peele_ returns for the second half of its fourth season in July. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/24/key-peele-sketch-substitute-teacher-become-movie "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3757817/key-peele-substitute-teacher-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3757817/key-peele-substitute-teacher-movie/"},"headline":"Key & Peele's Substitute Teacher Coming to the Big Screen","datePublished":"2015-03-25T14:18:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:25:24.876Z","description":"Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will star as two rival teachers","url":"https://time.com/3757817/key-peele-substitute-teacher-movie/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b2025abc862175/698785268e0601736145af05/ap980071477051-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Snierson / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50b2025abc862175/698785268e0601736145af05/ap980071477051-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jordan Peele (L) and Keegan-Michael Key (R) arrive at the 32nd Annual Paleyfest : \"A Salute to Comedy Central\" in Los Angeles on March 7, 2015.","caption":"Jordan Peele (L) and Keegan-Michael Key (R) arrive at the 32nd Annual Paleyfest : \"A Salute to Comedy Central\" in Los Angeles on March 7, 2015.","creditText":"Richard Shotwell—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3757817/key-peele-substitute-teacher-movie/","name":"Key & Peele's Substitute Teacher Coming to the Big Screen"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Most Iconic Movie Props Ever Sold","description":"With Premiere Props Hollywood Auction Extravaganza XIII set to sell some impressive Hollywood memorabilia, TIME looks back on how much some of the most iconic movie props have fetched.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6TcJ3ReX/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-21T23:59:31.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6TcJ3ReX.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3757817/key-peele-substitute-teacher-movie/","duration":"PT2M48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3757817/key-peele-substitute-teacher-movie/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```