Richard Simmons Biopic Starring Pauly Shore In Development From The Wolper Organization
deadline.comOver the last year, Pauly Shore has taken note of viral memes comparing his visage to that of fitness icon Richard Simmons, willing a feature biopic into existence — and now, one has coalesced, Deadline has learned.
The project starring Shore as Simmons is in development at The Wolper Organization, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Additional casting is currently underway.
Shore comes to the project after portraying Simmons in The Court Jester, a short premiering in Park City, UT amidst the Sundance Film Festival.
Also starring Tamra Brown as Ellen Degeneres, among others, that film is written and directed by Jake Lewis, the indie filmmaker best known for the short starring Jamie Costa as Robin Williams, which went viral a couple of years ago given the actor’s spot-on impression.
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