Ben Stiller in Early Talks for Lead Role in Rise of Chippendales Drama — firstshowing.net

Just last week we learned that Magic Mike XXL would be shooting this fall with the original film's first assistant director stepping up to to sit in the director's chair for the sequel starring Channing Tatum. Now another male stripper drama is in the works as Deadline reports Ben Stiller is in talks to lead I Am Chippendales, a feature film from "True Blood" creator Alan Ball about the dawn of the famous male stripping troupe. The Weinstein Company seems to be the likely studio home for the film adapting Rodney Sheldon's book of the same name about immigrant Steve Banerjee's rise to nightclub fame and fortune.

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