The idea of a movie focused on Jimmy Fallon may sound terrible, at least to anyone who ever had the misfortune of watching Taxi. But what about a movie about a fictionalized version of the SNL alum/late-night host set in a dystopian future that’s not so different from our dystopian present?
Deadline recently reported that Tim Heidecker and Tatiana Maslany have been cast in an upcoming movie called The Comedy Hour, which is reportedly a dark comedy set in the very near future in which “modern America is on the brink of collapse.”
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The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! star will play the role of “Jimmy,” a “late-night talk show host forced to produce his show through famine, fire, and plague.” Things become even more complicated when the network assigns the host a new robot sidekick to improve ratings, but the robot ends up becoming far more popular than the host.
The director of the project, Colby Day, also wrote the screenplay In the Blink of an Eye, which “placed highly” on the 2016 Black List. That script was reportedly made into a film by Finding Nemo and Wall-E director Andrew Stanton, starring Kate McKinnon and Rashida Jones, although it’s yet to be released. Day also wrote the screenplay for the Adam Sandler sci-fi drama Spaceman, which premiered on Netflix last year.
While one might assume that the “Jimmy” of The Comedy Hour is some kind of a composite character, named after the two late-night Jimmys that are currently on the air, prior to his screenwriting successes, Day worked in the late-night TV business, interning for both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Seeing as how this story about a seemingly insecure late-night talk show host named “Jimmy” is coming from someone who used to do menial tasks for Jimmy Fallon (presumably for very little pay), it’s difficult not to leap to the conclusion that Heidecker’s character will be a fictionalized version of the current Tonight Show host.
And, if the world of The Comedy Hour is a living hellscape, does that mean that its protagonist will just try to keep his head down and not comment on the world around him?
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