Jon Hamm & Ed Helms Set To Star In Upcoming Movie Comedy TAG

According to People, Jon Hamm and Ed Helms will play real-life grownups locked in a 25-Year Game of Tag in New Movie Comedy. The true-story behind perhaps the world's longest running and most intense game of "Tag" is racing towards the big screen with an all-star cast.

For nearly 30 years, Patrick Schultheis and nine of his childhood friends have been embroiled in an epic match of schoolyard "Tag." The game died out for awhile after they graduated high school, but about eight years later at a reunion, Schultheis came up with an idea to revive the game and keep their friendship alive at the same time. Then a first-year lawyer, he drafted a contract titled "Tag Participation Agreement" that laid out some basic rules, and all ten friends signed on.

The plan worked. Now middle-aged men, Schultheis and his buddies are closer than ever and continue to play the game every February, traveling all over the country - and enlisting the help of each other's wives and coworkers - to tag one another in a variety of creative ways. The last person to get tagged in February is forced to carry the shame of being "It" for the rest of the year.

"It's just such a sweet premise," Helms told PEOPLE. "It's funny because I feel like it's one of those stories you can only turn into a movie because it's real. If someone came to me with this premise, and was like, 'Yeah, it's a bunch of grownups who play tag,' I would've thought, that's really corny and dumb. But because the guys really do it, suddenly it's really kind of sweet and I don't know, a poignant thing."

"What this game represents to these adults, which is so much more than a game of tag, it's something that's glued their friendship together for 30 years," Helms says. "Even making the movie, you can't help thinking about all the connections you have in your life and how strong are they, what keeps them together, whether it's friends or family, it takes a lot of effort."

The film also stars Jake Johnson, Annabelle Wallis, Rashida Jones and Isla Fisher and is slated to hit theaters June 15.

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