Pantocrator Pictures Corp. has signed classically trained Shakespearean actor Theodore Naphtha, best known for his role as Irv in the 2006 comedy Herb and Irv Hit Themselves on the Head with Hammers, to play Irv again in a new darker reboot of the Herb and Irv franchise. According to a studio spokesman, the new film will include flashbacks to Herb and Irv’s fraught and abusive relationship with Herb’s Uncle Bob, who forced them to work after school in his hardware store when they were teenagers. The role of Herb, originally played by Anthony Quagga, will be played this time around by Scarlett Johansson.