A Chris Farley biopic is in the works, with Josh Gad set to direct.
In the sizzling package deal being shopped round the city, Emmy, Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Award winner Paul Walter Hauser is hooked up to celebrity as the mythical comic. There’s no phrase but on the place the mission will land, however it’s certain to draw a slew of bidders.
The movie will adapt the best-selling biography “The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts” by Tom Farley Jr. (Chris Farley’s brother) and Tanner Colby. Lorne Michaels, who forged Farley on “Saturday Night Live,” is generating by means of Broadway Video. “Saturday Night Live” is broadcast on NBC, which is owned by NBCUniversal, the mum or dad corporate of NBC News.
Oscar and Emmy nominees Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (“The Disaster Artist,” “Daisy Jones & the Six”) will write the screenplay.
Before his tragic loss of life in 1997 of a drug overdose, Farley rose to status throughout his five-season stretch on “Saturday Night Live.” During that point, he starred in loved sketches together with “Lunch Lady Land” with Adam Sandler, “Chippendale’s Audition” with Patrick Swayze and “Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker” (who famously lives in a van down by the river).
Farley translated that status to the giant display screen, starring in comedies like “Tommy Boy” with common collaborator David Spade, “Black Sheep” and “Beverly Hills Ninja.”
The mission, which can mark Gad’s directorial debut, has the blessing of the Farley circle of relatives.
Hauser’s movie credit come with “Richard Jewell,” “I, Tonya” and “Cruella.” He earned a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his function in the 2022 miniseries “Black Bird” reverse Taron Egerton.
Hauser is represented by CAA, Artists First, The Lede Company, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham LLP. Gad is represented by CAA, Sugar 23, ImPRint, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.
Farley and Colby are represented by Verve. Broadway Video is represented by CAA. Neustadter & Weber are represented by UTA and Kaplan/Perrone.
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