Will Ferrell May Play Russ Meyer In Film About The Making of “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”

Yup, we can see the resemblance too. Will Ferrell is in talks to play legendary skin flick director Russ Meyer in a new film about the making of 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

According to Variety (link below), Ferrell would play Meyer in Russ and Roger Go Beyond, a comedic film loosely based on the actual events that led to Meyer and film critic Roger Ebert collaborating on the Hall of Fame flick.

The script is written by Christopher Cluess, whose credits include "Saturday Night Live" and "The Simpsons." It explores the relationship between Meyer and Ebert, who was starting out as a Chicago Sun-Times film critic when he agreed to write the script.

Meyer, who died in 2004 at the age of 82, directed a long line of sexploitation films such as “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens” and “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” Ebert died in April, 2013.

“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” was released by 20th Century Fox, one of the few studio films to go out with an X rating, and became enormously profitable.

No word yet on who'll direct or who will play Ebert, but we'll be watching this story closely to see what develops, especially considering how much potential skin could be in it. I mean, just check out the original...

Via Variety