Dev Patel and Ben Stiller have signed up to lead the cast of a new true story set around the world of male strippers The Chippendales in the 1980s.
Deadline reports that the film will see Patel play Steve Banerjee, ‘the Bombay-born immigrant who turned an LA dive bar into a multimillion-dollar cultural zeitgeist sensation. Ben Stiller will play Nick DeNoia, an Emmy-winning producer of children’s shows who recruited the musclebound G-string clad dancers, choreographed their routines and ran a touring company of strippers.’
The film is being pitched as Magic Mike meets Scarface – a ‘true-life Boogie Nights‘.
Isaac Adamson will write the screenplay for the film, which will be produced by Permut Presentations’ David Permut, Bold Films’ owner Michel Litvak and Gary Michael Walters, and Red Hour’s Stiller and Nicky Weinstock.
