Jon Heder to Play a Skinny Sumo Wrestler
Source: Variety
January 27, 2006
20th Century Fox has tapped Wedding Crashers screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob Fisher to write a comedy about a skinny American competing as a sumo wrestler.
Variety says the project is being developed as a starring vehicle for Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), with Jimmy Miller producing at Mosaic Media Group.
The story is based on a Joshua Davis' GQ report ("Supersize Me: The Hard-Won Wisdom of a 134-Pound Sumo Warrior") about becoming the lightest man ever to compete at the U.S. Sumo Open two years ago. Davis included that episode along with excursions into bullfighting, arm wrestling, backward running and sauna in his book "The Underdog: How I Survived the World's Most Outlandish Competitions."
Faber and Fisher also wrote We're the Millers, a New Line comedy about a marijuana dealer trying to get out of the business.
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Source: Variety
January 27, 2006
20th Century Fox has tapped Wedding Crashers screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob Fisher to write a comedy about a skinny American competing as a sumo wrestler.
Variety says the project is being developed as a starring vehicle for Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), with Jimmy Miller producing at Mosaic Media Group.
The story is based on a Joshua Davis' GQ report ("Supersize Me: The Hard-Won Wisdom of a 134-Pound Sumo Warrior") about becoming the lightest man ever to compete at the U.S. Sumo Open two years ago. Davis included that episode along with excursions into bullfighting, arm wrestling, backward running and sauna in his book "The Underdog: How I Survived the World's Most Outlandish Competitions."
Faber and Fisher also wrote We're the Millers, a New Line comedy about a marijuana dealer trying to get out of the business.
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I'l rename the thread as soon as they settle on a name.
