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Domhnall Gleeson To Play National Lampoon Co-Founder In Netflix Film ‘A Futile And Stupid Gesture’

EXCLUSIVE: Domhnall Gleeson is making a deal to join Will Forte in

, the Netflix feature about the guys who founded National Lampoon and turned into a comic force that hatched John Hughes, John Belushi, and movies including 

. Forte already was set to play Doug Kenney, and Gleeson will play Henry Beard, who formed the humor magazine with Kenney and Robert Hoffman. David Wain is directing the film, which Michael Colton and John Aboud adapted from the Josh Karp book. Peter Principato and Jonathan Stern are producing.

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He picks up where he left off, co-starring with Tom Cruise in the Doug Liman-directed

installment. He had time in his schedule to squeeze in the Lampoon film.

Gleeson’s repped by Paradigm and Dublin-based The Agency’s Karl Hayden.

Why? they both do the same thing. both are subscription based as well. Oh, is this sarcasm...

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Good, let’s have a bunch of Brits play American comedy icons. How’d that work out with country music and Hank Williams?

It’s amazing that anyone was ever comparing Netflix to HBO.

Why? they both do the same thing. both are subscription based as well. Oh, is this sarcasm or ignorance?

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