Joel McHale is in final negotiations
to play his Community co-star Chevy Chase in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Netflix's
upcoming drama centered on National Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney's tragic
story.
Kenney met 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 founded the magazine, which became a cornerstone of American comedy, spawning 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, Gilda Radner, and Chase.
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, Chase and Kenney's girlfriend took him to
Hawaii to help him recover, but days later after both had left for the
mainland, Kenney's body was found at the bottom of a cliff. Kenney was 33
years-old.
Set to be directed by Wet Hot American Summer co-creator David Wain, A Futile and Stupid Gesture also
stars Will Forte as Kenney, and Domhnall Gleeson as Henry Beard.
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.
Source - THR
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