Josh Gad will direct, and Paul Walter Hauser will star in the film

Chris Farley – the legendary comedian behind Tommy Boy And countless Saturday Night Live Presentations – is getting the CV treatment.

Emmy Award-winner Paul Walter Hauser will star in the project, which is being directed by actor and director Josh Gad. Saturday Night Live Patriarch Lorne Michaels will produce via his Broadway Video banner.

The screenplay will be written by in-demand duo Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber based on the film’s story The New York Times Best selling CV The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts Written by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby.

The project, which is currently being implemented across the city, has the blessing of the Farley family.

Farley rose to fame as a player Saturday Night Live Along with cast members Adam Sandler and David Spade, known for his energetic and physical performances. Best known for sketches that have seen him play a Bill Swirsky fan (“da Bears!”), an enthusiastic motivational speaker (“He lives in a truck down the river!”), and an aspiring dancer in Chippendales, Farley has parlayed his late-night fame into a comic. Film career that included Tommy Boy And Beverly Hills Ninja. Farley, who had a long battle with addiction, died in 1997 at the age of 33.

Hauser previously spoke about his desire to play Farley, saying: Hollywood Reporter He even reached out to Farley’s family about a potential project.

The actor, who is repped by CAA, Artists First, and Schreck Rose, has broken out in features such as I’m Tonya Directed by Clint Eastwood richard gem, He recently won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role in the series blackbird. Next, Hauser will be in a Pixar film Inside out 2 He will appear opposite Matt Damon in the movie Apple Instigators From director Doug Liman.

Gad is the star of Broadway musicals such as The Book of Mormon And recently, Gutenberg!In addition to the animated musical film Frozen. His on-screen credits include beauty and the beast And Murder on the Orient Express. He is repped by CAA, Sugar 23, and Johnson Shapiro.

Neustadter and Weber, repped by UTA and Kaplan/Perrone, is a popular book that was recently adapted Daisy Jones and the Six In the Emmy Award-winning Amazon series of the same name. Their featured credits include 500 days of summer, Surprisingly nowAnd Disaster artist.

Farley and Colby are represented by Verve. Broadway Video is repped by CAA.