Paul Walter Hauser Wants Sam Rockwell to Play Lorne Michaels in the Chris Farley Biopic: ‘I’ll Do Matt Foley All Day For You’

Paul Walter Hauser will soon play Chris Farley in Josh Gad‘s biopic about the legendary “Saturday Night Live” cast member, and “The Naked Gun” star has called out who he wants to play Lorne Michaels.

While speaking with Variety on Wednesday night at the Los Angeles premiere of “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” Hauser said he wants Sam Rockwell to play the “SNL” mastermind.

“I have some ideas for who to cast for Lorne,” Hauser said. “I really want Sam Rockwell to play Lorne Michaels, which I don’t think I’ve told anyone yet.”

Hauser then addressed his pitch directly to Rockwell.

“Sam Rockwell, please play Lorne Michaels in my Chris Farley movie,” he added. “You love being around me when I do my Farley impression anyway, so I’ll do Matt Foley all day for you and make you laugh. It’ll be fun.”

If Hauser gets his wish, it would mark the second collaboration between Rockwell and himself after Clint Eastwood’s 2019 drama “Richard Jewell.”

Earlier in the interview, Hauser shared that he recently received the “latest draft” of the script from “500 Days of Summer” screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, which he called “the best” yet. He added that shooting could begin as soon as “early to middle of next year” and that production is just waiting on that “elusive greenlight” from New Line and Warner Bros.

The Farley biopic was first unveiled in April of 2024. While plot details remain under wraps, the film is based on the New York Times best-selling biography “The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts” by Tom Farley Jr. (Farley’s brother) and Tanner Colby.