Will Ferrell options Dr.Frank's “King Dork”

Contributed by TristinAaron. Posted by aubin on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 1:30 PM (EST)

Will Ferrel has reportedly optioned Dr.Frank's novel, King Dork. Ferrell and parner Adam McKay (director and co-writer of "Talledega Nights") founded the company - Gary Sanchez Productions -- earlier this year, partnering with Paramount / Vantage to make indie films.

Their first release is the martial arts comedy "Footfist Way," which they plucked from the Los Angeles Film Festival. After executive Chris Henchy read King Dork, the company decided to make the cult novel the first storyline that Gary Sanchez Productions will develop entirely on its own.

The novel was written by Frank "Dr.Frank" Portman, ringleader of Oakland pop-punk outfit The Mr. T Experience and Frank is already working on the follow up.

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TheOneTrueBill (November 15, 2006)

Cool! Congrats to Dr. Frank for making it to the big time. Let's just hope he doesn't abandon MTX all together now.

As a side note, Lookout Records, just because he's getting money from this doesn't mean you can stop paying him.

punkbytheounce (November 15, 2006)

haha

Dante3000 (rich) (November 15, 2006)

You would have to start something in order to stop it.
-Dante

GlassPipeMurder (November 15, 2006)

lolz

LushJ (November 15, 2006)

Snicker snicker...

Someone (November 15, 2006)

HA! Awesome.

harry_the_dentist (November 15, 2006)

"Frank "Dr.Frank" Portman, former ringleader of Oakland pop-punk outfit The Mr. T Experience"

Former? Did I miss something? Are MTX no longer together?

Someone (November 15, 2006)

i was gonna say the same thing, they still play the occasional show i believe.

punkbytheounce (November 15, 2006)

Sweet news right here.

coffinfullofnails (November 15, 2006)

That's awesome I have been wanting to read this and this makes me want to even more because with all this recognition this is getting it has to atleast be a decent read. I like Ferrell so I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops.

kingofsuck (November 15, 2006)

Interesting.

And isn't MTX still together?

psychosis_cheer (November 15, 2006)

DR. Franky Bobby

JonathonFallow (November 15, 2006)

Haha.

jamespastepunk (November 15, 2006)

Where's feeding500 to bitch about how this isn't the punx?

Congratulations to Dr. Frank!

saint_nick (November 15, 2006)

good times! go Dr. Frank

I-type-poorly (November 15, 2006)

whaaaaaaat? That is ridiculous. This has to be a dumb internet rumor or joke taken seriously. I love Dr. Frank / King Dork, but I don't think it would make a good movie, let alone in Ferrell/McKay style.

kingofsuck (November 15, 2006)

That was very sneaky of you, Aubin.

Autosuggestion (November 15, 2006)

This is kind of interesting, but tons and tons of books get optioned and even if they do eventually get made, it can take years and years.

Ferrell was attached to an adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces a few years ago. Other people who had been attahced to the lead role include Phillip Seymour Hoffmann, John Candy, and John Belushi (to give you a sense).

I wonder if this will ever get made.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

With that said, A Confederacy of Dunces is the funniest book ever written and that Will Ferrell would have made a terrible Ignatius.

Nineden (November 15, 2006)

I agree. COD is fantastic. In fact, it's so good that I don't think there's an actor alive who could do any justice to Ignatius.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

I am currently about 1/4 of the way through it and i agree, i love it but it's hard seeing anybody as ignatius

Someone (November 15, 2006)

I hope they never make a movie of COD. Not because I want to keep it at a cult-status -- I tell everyone I know to read it -- but because I don't think it would translate well. ALTHOUGH I think the writers of Arrested Development would be a good choice to write the script -- their humor is a very similar style to the "wackiness" of COD.

nocigar (November 15, 2006)

MA!!! THE MEATLOAF!!! FUCK!!!

Someone (November 15, 2006)

That made me lol

coffinfullofnails (November 15, 2006)

He was so fucking funny in that movie.

nocigar (November 15, 2006)

haha especially at the part at the funeral, where hes pretending to cry and he looks around and winks and starts dry humping the air right next to the girls he's standing by

JustLikeDelilah (November 15, 2006)

What movie are we talking about?

Someone (November 15, 2006)

Wedding Crashers.

I thought his best performance was either in that movie or in Old School, but everyone only remembers Anchorman and Ricky Bobby (Ricky Bobby just cause its relatively recent)

Does anyone know if Stranger Than Fiction was funny at all?

AaronEmerson (November 16, 2006)

Does anyone know if Stranger Than Fiction was funny at all?

Yes. It was funny, but not non-stop funny. It was a better film than anything else I've seen Will Ferrel in, though.

coffinfullofnails (November 15, 2006)

hahaha... Then Owen Wilson part right after that at the weeding " I just got back from crashing a funeral..."the whole room gasps "with Chazz who by the way you never told me is completly out of his fucking mind! But he might be on to something."

Uppie (November 15, 2006)

This is fantastic news. I thought the book was fantastic and I have a feeling it'll make a good movie if it's done as an independent film. I think the major studios may have some issues with the catholic school girl's oral fixation.

GlassPipeMurder (November 15, 2006)

can someone please explain optioning? i think i get the jist, but if someone has a good explanation it would be much appreciated.

woodandiron (November 15, 2006)

Optioning just means you buy the rights to make an intellectual property such as a novel into a movie.

You don't have to make the movie. You just have the rights to make the movie. Sometimes, people option books just to sit on the rights so a major label has to buy the rights from whoever optioned.

CellarDoor (November 15, 2006)

"Good news, I saw a dog today !"

Dusticles (November 15, 2006)

Will Ferrell is not funny.

JonathonFallow (November 15, 2006)

Remember that time you missed all those predictions for the MLB playoffs? You were WAY off then, and you're WAY off now.

Dusticles (November 15, 2006)

lol im never going to live that down.

does it count for anything that I picked the Cardinals in 6?

prolly not. but Will Ferrell is really annoying.

heres a baseball prediction for you...white sox will win the AL Central in 07.

and recent cubs signing Mark DeRosa will suck.

JonathonFallow (November 15, 2006)

I like the White Sox, and I would love to see them do that, but I don't know if it will happen man. And even if it does, I probably won't remember you calling it.

And have you seen Anchorman? Oh my god. There's nothing not funny about that movie.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

"Brick killed somebody"

Archangel (November 15, 2006)

THANK you.

JonathonFallow (November 15, 2006)

Really great story. Where is the source, though?

Also, THIS is the kind of book they should make kids read in school.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

Frank's put it on his blog now, so it's all true.

http://www.doktorfrank.com/archives/2006/11/my_man_will. html

TraumaSponge (November 15, 2006)

If Will Ferrel is in this movie I will murder him.

If he helps with this movie, I wil be okay.

nocigar (November 15, 2006)

no, no you won't murder him.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

Will Ferrel=Big Tom

TraumaSponge (November 15, 2006)

Randy Quaid!

JonathonFallow (November 15, 2006)

I don't think he could be hippie enough.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

These articles never give the Bomb Bassets any love.

Someone (November 15, 2006)

this sounds so wonderful, but I am nearly positive that it will turn out horrible and probably get Dr. Frank mad at Will Ferrel for ruining his book with the movie when the movie bombs and everyone hates it. Will Ferrel can't play a high schooler and this book isn't really at all the style of Will Ferrel.

danielsan (November 16, 2006)

Just because his company bought the rights doesn't mean Will Ferrell will star in it. I haven't read the book yet but from the sounds of it, I think Judd Apatow would be a solid choice to helm the bitch.