Overview

• Paul Walter Hauser remains attached to star as the late Saturday Night Live standout.
• The film adapts Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby’s The Chris Farley Show with a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber and production by Lorne Michaels and Erin David for Broadway Video.
• Gad describes the project as ambitious and says the scope of the period-piece story is driving costs that the team is now scaling back.
• He hopes to begin principal photography in the first quarter of 2026, framing that timing as contingent on budget approval.
• Hauser has consulted Lorne Michaels as well as Tim Meadows and David Spade as he prepares to portray Farley.