EXCLUSIVE: The Wolper Group has tapped Jordan Allen-Dutton (Robotic Hen) to pen the script for its not too long ago introduced Richard Simmons biopic produced by and starring Pauly Shore, Deadline has realized.
Whereas the title of the movie hasn’t but been disclosed, nor specifics to the method it’ll absorb depicting the lifetime of the famed health guru, producer Mark Wolper has shared that it will likely be “a dramatic and heartfelt function within the tone of Little Miss Sunshine.” Shore got here to the mission after campaigning for years to play Simmons in a function, given well-liked on-line opinion that nobody resembles the health icon greater than him. Beforehand, he portrayed Simmons in The Courtroom Jester, a brief movie written and directed by Jake Lewis that bought out a number of screenings in Park Metropolis, UT earlier this 12 months and garnered over one million views on YouTube in 24 hours.
Whereas Simmons has made it clear that he disavows the function mission — saying, “don’t consider all the pieces you learn” — Shore has advised that the world wants the biopic “now greater than ever.” Over the course of Simmons’ profession, the actor and comic mentioned, he got here to signify “psychological well being, getting folks in form and being his genuine foolish self! Every time he was on TV you may by no means take your eyes off of him and he introduced such a pleasure to his appearances that represented nothing however a great time.”
With regard to the function biopic, Allen-Dutton acknowledged, “I hope to make Richard’s story inspiring, tight, and provocative like a great pair of dolphin shorts.”
Equally energetic in comedy and drama, Allen-Dutton garnered three Emmy nominations throughout his 5 years engaged on Grownup Swim’s grownup animated collection Robotic Hen. Moreover, he’s carried out award-show writing for Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell and scripted drama pilots for Berlanti, Warner Brothers, Ley Line Leisure, and Apple. His work has been nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and has additionally received the Grand Jury Prize on the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Competition.
Shore will subsequent be seen performing his one man present, Pauly Shore – Stick With The Dancing: Tales From My Childhood at The Comedy Retailer, as a part of Netflix Is a Joke Fest, on Could third.
Allen-Dutton is repped by Gersh, Leisure 360, and Ziffren Brittenham.