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Forget The Dark Knight.

With Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder on his resume, this is the summer of Danny McBride.

"He's the guy everyone will be talking about. That guy is unstoppable," comedian Bill Hader, one of McBride's co-stars in Tropic Thunder, told USA Today.

How does McBride feel about all the attention?

"I guess it's my big summer. I don't know. I feel like I've had more eventful ones when I was a kid," he joked. "When we went to Nags Head or something."

On a serious - but still funny - note, McBride owes all his recent screen time to The Foot Fist Way, a film he co-wrote with two film-school friends and made for about $80,000. They took it all the way to Sundance.

These days, the rising star just wrapped Land of the Lost, opposite Ferrell. Next up? Writing and shooting the HBO series East Bound and Down, about a burned-out baseball player.

"I've been writing around the clock," McBride said. "I do the same things I've always done — watch movies and play video games and just do nothing, talk about ideas and write. Kind of boring."

Danny McBride is a rising star in the world of comedy.

He wrote the critically acclaimed indie feature The Foot Fist Way and has a role in two summer comedies: Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder.

The actor recently spoke to ComingSoon.net about the unusual experience of having a pair of major films come out at once:

It's nuts. There's two big action comedies this summer and they come out a week apart from each other, which is crazy, but I guess the audience is the lucky ones. I've seen both these films and they're both so f*cking awesome and I really do feel like they're groundbreaking as far as summer comedies go.

It's like you haven't seen it like this, it's good. Three cheers for the R-rated comedy. I think it's a good thing as long as those movies are making money it makes things more interesting.

Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder come out tomorrow and August 13, respectively.