Seth Rogen and Elle Fanning To Join Dev Patel in CHIPPENDALES

Seth Rogen and Elle Fanning are in talks to join to Dev Patel in the upcoming film project Chippendales, which is being directed by Craig Gillespie. The film will tell the crazy story about the male exotic dancing enterprise.

The story follows “Steve Banerjee (Patel), who emigrated from India to Playa del Rey to chase the dream of fame and fortune. Bored with pumping gas in the Mobil station he owned, he found an outlet for his entrepreneurial dreams when he acquired the struggling L.A. rock club Destiny II. He transformed it with a new name and theme nights that included female mud wrestling and a “male exotic dance night for ladies only,” with the latter catching on. Banerjee and his partners were presiding over a flesh empire that earned $8 million annually from club receipts, millions of calendars of its main attraction being sold, with a large amount coming from touring companies. Early co-creators included Paul Snider, whose Playboy bunny girlfriend Dorothy Stratten helped come up with the signature cuffs and collars uniforms. Snider later would murder Stratten and kill himself. Lawsuits and disputes between Banerjee followed, leading to a violence-filled descent.”

It’s said that if the deal closes, Rogen will play Nick De Noia, the choreographer who came up with the Chippendales routine and Fanning would play Stratten. This is certainly an interesting and talented cast that is coming together for the film.

The script for the film is being rewritten by Lauren Blum and Rebecca Angelo, with Craig Williams and Isaac Adamson having written previous drafts.

Producer David Permut has been trying to get this project made for two decades.

Source: Deadline