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“No publication was more consequential to changing culture in the world as much as National Lampoon,” said director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, They Came Together) of the subject of his latest film, A Futile and Stupid Gesture. “Until the advent of Deadline.” And with that flattering and obviously 100%…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Stern, the Abominable Pictures president and comedy producer whose credits include Childrens Hospital and Wet Hot American Summer, has signed with UTA. The deal comes as he heads to the Sundance Film Festival with A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the David Wain-directed pic about the formation of…

Things get absurdly comedic in the new trailer for Netflix’s A Futile and Stupid Gesture starring Will Forte. Directed by Wet Hot American Summer‘s David Wain, the movie is based on the story of Doug Kenney (Forte) who, along with Henry Beard (played by an unrecognizable Domnhall Gleeson), co-created the…

Casting continues on Netflix’s A Futile & Stupid Gesture, with Seth Green signing on to play Christopher Guest in the film based on the bestselling 2006 book by Josh Karp about the troubled life and storied career of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney. Directed by The Wet Hot American Summer‘s David Wain and…

Netflix’s upcoming biopic A Futile And Stupid Gesture has cast Undateable‘s Rick Glassman and Kroll Show vet Jon Daly in key supporting roles as Harold Ramis and Bill Murrary respectively. Based on Josh Karp's best-selling 2006 book about the troubled life and storied career of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney…

EXCLUSIVE: The fifth-season debut of HBO's Veep is just over two weeks away, but Matt Walsh has jumped on board for some National Lampoon fun in A Futile And Stupid Gesture. The SAG Award nominee will be playing producer and publishing exec Matty Simmons in the Netflix pic directed by David Wain. A former newspaperman…

EXCLUSIVE: Domhnall Gleeson is making a deal to join Will Forte in A Futile And Stupid Gesture, the Netflix feature about the guys who founded National Lampoon and turned into a comic force that hatched John Hughes, John Belushi, and movies including Animal House and Caddyshack. Forte already was set to play Doug…

Martin Mull has signed on to a key role in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the upcoming Netflix film based on the 2006 nonfiction book that charts the troubled life of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney. The film also examines the impact of the comedy magazine and the media empire it spawned during the 1970s and…