A Chris Farley biopic is in the works with Paul Walter Hauser to star as the tragic SNL star who died from a drug overdose in 1997 aged 33. Emmy award winner Hauser, 37, will fulfil a long-held ...

New Line Cinema has acquired the Chris Farley biopic from director Josh Gad and Paul Walter Hauser , who is set to play the hilarious fan-favorite comedian. The film is based on the biography, The ...

Variety reports that New Line Cinema is backing a Chris Farley biopic that will star Black Bird actor Paul Walter Hauser as ...

The movie will be based on the book The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts, which was written by Farley's brother Tom with Tanner Colby. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels is ...

Josh Gad's Chris Farley biopic has landed with New Line. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film, which is set to star ...

Starring alongside fellow cast members Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Tim Meadows, David Spade and Rob Schneider, Farley helped the group establish their reputation as “The Bad Boys of SNL.” ...

"SNL's" Lorne Michaels ... It also helps that the Farley family has given its blessing to the project. The currently untitled film is based on “The Chris Farley Show: A Biography In Three ...

“I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he’s in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie he’s doing his ‘SNL’ stuff and his movies,” Hauser told the outle ...

Farley, a “Saturday Night Live” alum and the star of numerous ‘90s movies including “Tommy Boy” and “Beverly Hills Ninja,” died of a drug overdose in 1997 at the age of 33. The biopic will be based on ...