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A Chris Farley biopic is within the works, with Josh Gad set to direct.
Within the scorching package deal being shopped round city, Emmy, Critics’ Selection, and Golden Globe Award winner Paul Walter Hauser is connected to star because the legendary comic. There is no phrase but on the place the venture will land, but it surely’s certain to draw a slew of bidders.
The movie will adapt the best-selling biography “The Chris Farley Present: A Biography in Three Acts” by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby, with Lorne Michaels producing by way of Broadway Video.
Oscar and Emmy nominees Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (“The Catastrophe Artist,” “Daisy Jones & the Six”) will write the screenplay.
The venture has the blessing of the Farley household.
Hauser is represented by CAA, Artists First, The Lede Firm, 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.
Deadline was the primary to report the information.
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