Doug Kenney Biopic in the Works!

April 11, 2016

Josh Karp’s 2006 book, A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever, is being made into a movie, with Will Forte as Kenney. Others in the cast are Domhnall Gleeson as Henry Beard, Matt Walsh as Matty Simmons, Seth Green as Christopher Guest, Rick Gassman as Harold Ramis, Jon Daly as Bill Murray, Joel McHale as Chevy Chase, Thomas Lennon as Michael O’Donoghue, Natasha Lyonne as Ann Beatts, and Josh Gemberling as John Belushi. Martin Mull will also play Kenney, but as an imagined older “modern Doug” (the real Doug Kenney died in 1980). The film is being produced for Netflix. Shooting is beginning this month and the film will be out in 2017. More info here.

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