Director Peter Farrelly finally is ready to follow his Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book. Apple Studios is in talks to finance The Greatest Beer Run Ever, with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe in talks to star and Bill Murray is being courted for a supporting role.
Since that victorious Oscar Night, Farrelly has had his sights set on this film, which he developed with Skydance. He co-wrote the script with Brian Currie and Pete Jones, based on the bestselling book The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty and War by Chick Donahue and J.T. Molloy. The film will produced by Andrew Muscato and Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger. I’m hearing that they are tying down the details but that the film will be made as an Apple Original Films title.
Farrelly’s Green Book won three Oscars including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. His co-star Viggo Mortensen also was nominated, and the $23 million-budget film grossed $321 million worldwide.
Apple continues to lean in on star-driven feature fare after landing Oscar noms for Wolfwalkers and Greyhound.
