National Lampoon documentary on the way
Influential humor magazine the National Lampoon will get the feature-length documentary treatment, according to the Hollywood Reporter, with the same production duo behind the award-winning All In: The Poker Movie and An Omar Broadway Film optioning the rights to tell its story. The film will follow the Lampoon’s history from its early, Harvard Lampoon beginnings through its 1970s heyday—where folks like John Hughes, John Belushi, and Chevy Chase first came to prominence, not like you needed us to tell you that—then on into its downfall and “rebirth and refocus as a multimedia company,” which we suppose is a nice way of saying “its devolution into a boob-and-fart factory that slaps its name on another Van Wilder DVD every couple of years.”