Nebraska and The Last Man on Earth star Will Forte has
signed on to play Doug Kenney in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, a Netflix film about one of the co-founders of the National Lampoon.
Kenney met future National Lampoon co-founders Henry
Beard and Robert Hoffman during his time has an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.
In the late '60s after graduation the trio of humorists founded the magazine,
which became a major force in the comedy scene in New York City in
the 1970s, and spawned
a popular radio show and a few films and franchises - Animal House, Caddyshack,
and Vacation - that helped launch the careers of such talent as John Belushi,
Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Gilda Radner.
Kenney
traded the magazine for Hollywood when he became the co-writer of Animal House
and Caddyshack, but by the late '70s just when his film career was at its peak,
drugs and alcohol began taking its toll on the comedy writer. In 1980, Chevy
Chase and Kenney's girlfriend took him to Hawaii to help him recover from his
addictions, but days later after both had left for the mainland, Kenney's body
was found at the bottom of a cliff. Whether it was a suicide, accidental, or
something else remains unclear. Kenney was dead at the age of 33.
Adapted from Josh Karp's 2006 book of the same name by
former Harvard Lampoon editors Michael Colton and John Aboud, A Futile and
Stupid Gesture is being prepped to begin production in April with a budget of
$15 to $20 million, and Wet Hot American Summer co-creator David Wain attached to direct.
Source
- THR
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