Producer James Presson (“The Plague”) has boarded “Humpty: American Dream,” a raunchy biopic parody from directors Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry (“Rats!”), who are producing through their U.S. company Pleasure Cinemagroup.
The news falls ahead of the project’s debut at the Fantasia International Film Festival’s Frontières Co-Production Market, held July 22–25 in Montreal.
“Our main goal at the market is to raise millions of dollars by connecting with potential financiers and other potential partners,” Canadian producer partner Taylor Nodrick (Ghoul Nexus Inc) told Variety. “We also hope that attending the market helps raise the profile of the film in general as we start casting.”
Nodrick, Fry, and Nalevansky, who is also the screenwriter, will be attending the market along with Presson (whose TV credits include “Ray Donovan” and “For All Mankind”) and Alison Moses, who was a producer on “Rats!,” which won the Audience Award Bronze in the Best International Feature category of the 2024 Fantasia festival.
Nodrick, who works at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, was an early fan of “Rats!” and told the filmmakers, during their Calgary stop, that he wanted to be part of their next project. “Maxwell and Carl sat me down and imparted the story of Humpty Dumpty, and their vision of making an original, beautifully crafted comedy that parodies the biopic genre while also functioning as a standalone epic,” Nodrick said.
