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Joel McHale can now count all those years starring opposite Chevy Chase in the comedy cult series Community as research, given he’s now set to play Chevy in the upcoming comedy/biopic A Futile And Stupid Gesture.
Set to chart the life of National Lampoon co-creator Douglas Kenney (due to be played by The Lego Movie‘s Will Forte), A Futile And Stupid Gesture will show how Kenney, and co-creators Henry Beard (Domhnall Gleeson, The Revenant) and Robert Huffman, launched the successful magazine National Lampoon as a spin-off from the Harvard Lampoon, and went on to become a major part of the comedy world in the US during the ’70s.
We’ll also see how the popularity of the mag led into the movie business, and how Kenney’s obsession with the Hollywood lifestyle not only led to him becoming a drug and alcohol addict, but wound up with him falling off a cliff in Hawaii surrounded by mysterious circumstances.
For those who don’t know, Chase starred in a number of the National Lampoon movies and so was with Kenney in Hawaii shortly before his death (returning to Los Angeles for work, before being set to head back to Hawaii when he learned his friend was missing).
John Gemberling (Broad City) is also attached to star as John Belushi for the David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) directed film which is due to begin filming next month, and is being produced for Netflix.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
