Seth Green will play Christopher Guest in Netflix's adaptation of Josh Karp's book A Futile & Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever, Deadline reported. Directed by David Wain (The Wet Hot American Summer) and written by Michael Colton and John Aboud, the project's cast includes Will Forte as Kenney, Joel McHale, Domnhall Gleeson, Thomas Lennon, Jackie Tohn, Matt Walsh, Rick Glassman and Jon Daly. Shooting is set to begin this month with release planned on Netflix in 2017.
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Grant Bowler (Defiance) is set as a regular in the ABC drama pilot Still Star-Crossed, from Shondaland and ABC Studios, Deadline reported, noting that the project, written by Heather Mitchell based on the book by Melinda Taub, "picks up where William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet left off.... The story centers on Rosaline (Lashana Lynch), a gorgeous, intelligent and headstrong Capulet and Juliet's cousin who is ordered to marry Benvolio (Wade Briggs), a Montague. Bowler will play Lord Montague."
