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‘The Greasy Strangler’ Filmmaker Jim Hosking, Abso Lutely Team On Indie Sports Comedy ‘Gleek’
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Hosking, the award-winning British filmmaker behind idiosyncratic Sundance titles The Greasy Strangler and An Evening with Beverly Luff Lin, has been tapped to direct Gleek, a sports…
Also produced by former Orchard and IDW Entertainment head Paul Davidson (upcoming Electric Dreams remake) and screenwriter Fabian Marquez ( Better Luck Tomorrow), who together penned the script, the film tells the story of a hapless young man who discovers that his overactive salivary glands qualify him to compete in a secret, underground competition that holds the key to restoring his family’s good name. In a statement on the project, Hosking shared that his mission in setting out to make a new film is “to take viewers on a trip they’ve never taken the likes of before,” noting that the “outlandishly hilarious and also deeply human Gleek ” will allow him to accomplish just that. Stated writer-producers Davidson and Marquez, “Gleeking is an obscure childhood talent reimagined as a feature film (and perhaps someday as a Broadway musical that will be adapted back into a movie) about the power of family, heart and saliva.
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