Will Ferrell May Play Russ Meyer In Russ Roger Go Beyond

Will Ferrell May Play Russ Meyer In ‘Russ & Roger Go Beyond’

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2014 12:30 pm EST

Naturally, the story of its creation is going to be a movie, called Russ & Roger Go Beyond. Will Ferrell is looking like the actor who will play Russ Meyer in a project that doesn’t yet have any other creative talent attached.Deadline reports on the film. It’s actually an indie, rather than a studio production. There’s no director (Deadline mentions interest from Edgar Wright) and no one chosen to play Ebert. Ferrell hasn’t signed yet, but if he does it will push the movie forward pretty fast, and other names will probably be attached in short order. That alone likely rules out Wright as director.

Producers are Mark Amin’s Sobini Films and David Permut and Richard Waltzer; the script is by Christopher Cluess (SNL, The Simpsons).

That pegs the film as a potentially fun romp through the heady days of “anything goes” Hollywood as new voices briefly triumphed over old establishment types. And of course there’s the easy attention-getting ploy of casting women to play the various large-busted actresses with whom Meyer always associated, even if BVD featured a less superheroically-proportioned cast.

For much more on the original film, read Roger Ebert’s look back at the movie for its ten-year anniversary. This piece is also the source of the Ebert quotes above.