Chris Walken plans to do for table tennis what Vince Vaughn did for dodgeballs. In other words make a mildy funny movie about it and then sleep on the piles of cash he makes from selling the hell out of it.

Empire Online reports that Walken has signed on to star in Balls of Fury, a film about the national sport of China: Ping Pong. Typecast forever as the singing, dancing, cooking face of pure evil, Chris Walken will of course play the villain.

Chris's character is named Fang, and I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that he has a brother named Scar. It's only natural. Opposite Walken is a guy named Dan Fogler as a disgraced ex-player recruited by the CIA to play a table tennis tournament in the evil Fang's lair.

Who the hell is Dan Fogler? He's a Broadway actor broadening out into film. In addition to the too easy to make catchy news headlines out of movie Balls of Fury, he has no fewer than five other films in varying stages of production. You may not know who he is, but you're going to see an awful lot of him.

Balls of Fury is brought to you by the guys who made you laugh with Reno 911, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. Unfortunately, they also wrote Herbie: Fully Loaded, and it'll take more than a ping pong movie before I'm ready to forgive them for that.