{"id":872210,"date":"2026-08-29T03:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:24:13","slug":"a-hooters-origin-film-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872210\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hooters Origin Film In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a-hooters-origin-film-in-the-works.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a-hooters-origin-film-in-the-works.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"a-hooters-origin-film-in-the-works\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A film about the chicken-wing restaurant chain Hooters is in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Imaginatively titled \u201cHooters: The Movie,\u201d the film is being independently produced by the chain\u2019s original founding partners.<\/p>\n<p>Emmy-nominated filmmaker Jon Rosenbaum (\u201cWoody Woodpecker Goes to Camp,\u201d \u201cBenchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls\u201d) directs the film from a screenplay by Ed Droste, Phil Olson and Chuck Melcher.<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on Ted and Lenny, two lifelong friends from a small town in Iowa.  Ted becomes infatuated with Diane, whom he first sees from afar when featured in a spring break commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to find her in real life, Ted talks a hesitant Lenny into joining him on a road trip to Clearwater Beach in Florida.  The trip resulted in the accidental creation of what would become a national restaurant empire.<\/p>\n<p>Diane later became the very first Hooters Girl, and soon the friends ultimately find everything they built threatened by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Casting is currently underway, with Lisa London and Catherine Stroud handling it.  Filming will take place in the Tampa\/Clearwater area from November.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/hooters-the-movie-1237062116\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/aardmans-pokemon-series-gets-a-teaser\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aardman\u2019s \u201cPokemon\u201d Series Gets A Teaser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/james-gunn-extends-his-dc-studios-contract\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Gunn Extends His DC Studios Contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A film about the chicken-wing restaurant chain Hooters is in the works. Imaginatively titled \u201cHooters: The Movie,\u201d the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-872210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}