\n\tEXCLUSIVE: It\u2019s about to get spicy on the big screen \u2014 there\u2019s a movie about famous chicken wing chain Hooters in the works.<\/p>\n
\n\tHooters: The Movie<\/a> is being independently produced by the chain\u2019s original founding partners and is being directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Jon Rosenbaum<\/a> (Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp, Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls) off a screenplay by Ed Droste, Phil Olson and Chuck Melcher.\u00a0Casting is underway, led by casting directors Lisa London and Catherine Stroud of London\/Stroud Casting.<\/p>\n \n\tBased on the real events behind Hooters\u2019 founding, Hooters: The Movie centers on Ted and Lenny, two lifelong friends from a small town in Iowa who accidentally launch a national restaurant empire, only to find everything they built threatened by the federal government. The adventure begins when Ted becomes infatuated with Diane, whom he first sees from afar when featured in a spring break commercial. Determined to find her in real life, Ted talks a hesitant Lenny into joining him on a road trip to Clearwater Beach, FL. Diane would later become the very first Hooters Girl.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI think people are going to enjoy watching how we were really just some guys who didn\u2019t know what we were doing, but had a great time doing it,\u201d said Droste, a Hooters co-founder and producer. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of drama, but a lot of heart and fun too. And of course, our world-famous Hooters Girls are the real stars. For over 40 years Hooters has been America\u2019s oasis in good times and bad. It\u2019s time to deliver a taste of our big-hearted culture and famous humor to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSaid Rosenbaum: \u201cFrom the moment I first learned the Hooters origin story, I knew it would make an incredible movie. It\u2019s the perfect combination of a hilarious buddy comedy and an inspiring biopic for a beloved\u00a0American brand: Two lifelong friends with no idea what they\u2019re getting themselves into, a crazy idea they\u2019re willing to bet everything on, and a wild journey that culminates in the creation of something bigger than they could ever have imagined.\u00a0It\u2019s not at all what people will be expecting \u2013 and it\u2019s mostly true!\u00a0I can\u2019t wait to bring this story to life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tProduction is being eyed for November, filming primarily in the Tampa\/Clearwater area, where the original Hooters restaurant opened in 1983.<\/p>\n \n\tRosenbaum is represented by Ross Fineman at Fineman Entertainment and Brent Jordan Sherman at the Characters Talent Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: It\u2019s about to get spicy on the big screen \u2014 there\u2019s a movie about famous chicken wing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,351148,351149,206],"class_list":["post-829025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hooters-the-movie","tag-jon-rosenbaum","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}