A movie based on the life of the late Chris Farley is in the works!
On Friday (April 12), it was reported that a biopic about the legendary comedian and Saturday Night Live star is being directed by Josh Gad with Emmy-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser attached to star. The movie would mark Josh‘s directorial debut.
Keep reading to find out more…Entertainment Weekly reports that SNL boss Lorne Michaels will produce the project based on the New York Times bestselling biography The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts, which was written by Chris‘ brothers Tom Farley and Tanner Colby.
The biopic, which is said to have the Farley family’s blessing, is being written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber and is currently being shopped around.
Chris rose to fame as a key player on SNL, appearing on five seasons between 1990 and 1995. He sadly died of...
On Friday (April 12), it was reported that a biopic about the legendary comedian and Saturday Night Live star is being directed by Josh Gad with Emmy-winning actor Paul Walter Hauser attached to star. The movie would mark Josh‘s directorial debut.
Keep reading to find out more…Entertainment Weekly reports that SNL boss Lorne Michaels will produce the project based on the New York Times bestselling biography The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts, which was written by Chris‘ brothers Tom Farley and Tanner Colby.
The biopic, which is said to have the Farley family’s blessing, is being written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber and is currently being shopped around.
Chris rose to fame as a key player on SNL, appearing on five seasons between 1990 and 1995. He sadly died of...
- 4/12/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
On a recent episode of the "Fly on the Wall" podcast, comedian Chris Rock talked about watching the Safdie brothers' film "Uncut Gems" and being incredibly impressed by Adam Sandler's performance. Rock was also made incredibly melancholy, however, as he immediately began to think of the later actor/comedian Chris Farley. Rock felt that, had Farley survived, he would have eventually had the opportunity to reveal his own dramatic acting chops, something Farley was never able to display in his film career prior. Rock and Farley both began performing on "Saturday Night Live" in 1990, and they both rose to fame rapidly. Farley, however, wrestled with addiction and health problems for many years, and died of an overdose in 1997. He was 33.
Farley's death hit the world of comedy hard, and many of his friends and co-workers have come out over the years to say what a kind, shy, decent guy Farley was.
Farley's death hit the world of comedy hard, and many of his friends and co-workers have come out over the years to say what a kind, shy, decent guy Farley was.
- 3/18/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Every morning (except for Sundays), at 5:45 a.m. sharp, the DogPound meets at an elite West Village gym. A year ago, Hugh Jackman assembled this group of 14 guys—who include NYSE president Tom Farley, former America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker, and two Olympic-medal winners—from among the dads at his kids’ school. The name is an homage to Dali, Jackman’s French bulldog, who presides over all workouts. “It’s a bromance for sure,” says lead trainer Kirk Myers, who, together with trainers nicknamed Menace, Monster, and Chief Smashing Officer, works out alongside Jackman and friends. The whole crew have been known to spend an entire day together and exchange more than a dozen emails daily. The hour-long themed circuit starts with a double espresso shot and often involves tasks such as flinging giant hammers and lifting 100-pound dumbbells. At some point every morning, the Rocky theme song is played.
- 10/6/2014
- by Rebecca Milzoff
- Vulture
New York, Feb 4: Teen pregnancy in New York City has gone down by 27 percent over the last decade, according to new data reports.
The dip comes as the number of teens having sex has fallen, while the proportion using birth control has gone up, according to numbers to be released by the city Health Department Sunday.
"Two things are happening here - teens are using more contraceptives, and they're also delaying sexual activity," the New York Daily News quoted Health Commissioner Tom Farley as saying.
The city has worked to make it easier for kids to get birth control - giving out condoms at schools and making birth.
The dip comes as the number of teens having sex has fallen, while the proportion using birth control has gone up, according to numbers to be released by the city Health Department Sunday.
"Two things are happening here - teens are using more contraceptives, and they're also delaying sexual activity," the New York Daily News quoted Health Commissioner Tom Farley as saying.
The city has worked to make it easier for kids to get birth control - giving out condoms at schools and making birth.
- 2/4/2013
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Getty Actor Alan Pagano plays Chris Farley in the “The Fatman Cometh.”
By day, Alan Pagano makes a living running the reels as a projectionist at his neighborhood New Jersey megaplex.
But by night, he’s spent the better part of the last few months transforming himself into the second incarnation of the late and lovably roly-poly “Saturday Night Live” star Chris Farley.
Call his story “The Fatman Cometh.”
That’s the title that the 26-year-old Pagano and his collaborators,...
By day, Alan Pagano makes a living running the reels as a projectionist at his neighborhood New Jersey megaplex.
But by night, he’s spent the better part of the last few months transforming himself into the second incarnation of the late and lovably roly-poly “Saturday Night Live” star Chris Farley.
Call his story “The Fatman Cometh.”
That’s the title that the 26-year-old Pagano and his collaborators,...
- 3/5/2011
- by Charles Passy
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Chris Farley's celebrity friends Chevy Chase and David Spade tried desperately to save the actor from his drug addiction before he died of an overdose, a new book reveals.
Actor pals Chase and Spade reveal the tactics they used to shock Farley into kicking his out-of-control habit in The Last Days of Chris Farley - written by the tragic star's brother Tom Farley and Tanner Colby.
Chase says, "(I told him) look, you're not John Belushi. And when you overdose or kill yourself, you will not have the same acclaim that John did. You'll be a blip in the New York Times obituary page, and that'll be it. Is that what you want?"
And Spade claims he was blamed for his Tommy Boy co-star's death: "I got a lot of s**t at the end about, 'Why weren't you there for him?' But being that close, I dealt with it all the time. And in that situation, before the guy's dead, he's just kind of an asshole. Truth is, you get a junkie who's wasted all the time and moody and angry and trying to knock you around, you say, 'Ok, you go do that and I'll be over here.'"
Farley died from an overdose in 1997 at the age of 33.
Actor pals Chase and Spade reveal the tactics they used to shock Farley into kicking his out-of-control habit in The Last Days of Chris Farley - written by the tragic star's brother Tom Farley and Tanner Colby.
Chase says, "(I told him) look, you're not John Belushi. And when you overdose or kill yourself, you will not have the same acclaim that John did. You'll be a blip in the New York Times obituary page, and that'll be it. Is that what you want?"
And Spade claims he was blamed for his Tommy Boy co-star's death: "I got a lot of s**t at the end about, 'Why weren't you there for him?' But being that close, I dealt with it all the time. And in that situation, before the guy's dead, he's just kind of an asshole. Truth is, you get a junkie who's wasted all the time and moody and angry and trying to knock you around, you say, 'Ok, you go do that and I'll be over here.'"
Farley died from an overdose in 1997 at the age of 33.
- 4/2/2008
- WENN
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