Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber will helm the screenplay concerning the comic, who appeared on 5 seasons of Saturday Night time Dwell earlier than his demise on the age of 33 in December 1997
Paul Walter Hauser will slip into the life and thoughts of late comic Chris Farley in a forthcoming biopic. The movie, set to be directed by Josh Gad, is presently in growth. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber will present the screenplay primarily based on the e-book The Chris Farley Present: A Biography in Three Acts, revealed by Farley’s brother Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby in 2008.
The Chris Farley Present takes its identify from a recurring sketch on Saturday Night time Dwell. Earlier than his premature demise on the age of 33 in 1997, Farley appeared within the comedy sequence for 5 seasons earlier than being fired alongside Adam Sandler in 1995. Final yr, Rolling Stone listed the choice as one of many worst in tv historical past. Farley was forged on SNL by creator Lorne Michaels, who will produce the upcoming biopic by way of Broadway Video.
Farley additionally appeared in plenty of movies all through his profession, together with Michael Lehmann’s Airheads, Peter Segal’s Tommy Boy, Penelope Spheeris’ Black Sheep, and extra. Previous to his demise, attributed to a drug overdose, the comic and actor was in talks to voice the titular character in Shrek. In 2015, his brother revealed that many of the dialogue had been recorded by the point Farley died.
“I needed to do a Chris Farley film the place he’s in rehab for half of the movie, and for the opposite half of the film, he’s doing his SNL stuff and his motion pictures,” Hauser informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I believe I’ve a extremely nice tackle that story, however I’m attempting to reduce weight and I’m attempting to redefine myself as an individual of wholesome choice-making, and as an actor. So the times of doing Fatty Arbuckle, Chris Farley or Ignatius J. Reilly in a Confederacy of Dunces film have a really small time window, and it’s getting smaller by the week.”
The Farley biopic will mark Josh Gad’s directorial debut. This yr, Hauser will seem in voice roles in Orion and the Darkish from Sean Charmatz and the Pixar sequel Inside Out 2 from Kelsey Mann, each of that are directorial debuts.
