Former Community star Joel McHale is set to play fellow former Community star Chevy Chase in a biopic about the founding of National Lampoon.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, McHale is in final talks to join the Netflix-produced film, titled A Futile and Stupid Gesture. Based on a biography of the same name by Josh Karp, the movie will follow National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney from his time as an editor of the Harvard Lampoon to his tragic death at 33.
Kenney and Chase were close friends and, after Caddyshack received poor reviews, Chase took Kenney to Hawaii to cheer him up. When Chase had to return to Los Angeles, Kenney stayed behind and was later found dead at the bottom of a cliff on August 29, 1980.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, McHale is in final talks to join the Netflix-produced film, titled A Futile and Stupid Gesture. Based on a biography of the same name by Josh Karp, the movie will follow National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney from his time as an editor of the Harvard Lampoon to his tragic death at 33.
Kenney and Chase were close friends and, after Caddyshack received poor reviews, Chase took Kenney to Hawaii to cheer him up. When Chase had to return to Los Angeles, Kenney stayed behind and was later found dead at the bottom of a cliff on August 29, 1980.
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