Dan Fogler will portray Sam Kinison in TV Biopic

HBO helped launch Sam Kinison and now they will pay homage to him by airing his biopic ‘Brother Sam’. The film will be based off a memoir written by his brother/manager Bill Kinison and Steve Delsohn. Dan Fogler is set to play Sam Kinison in the flick because of his uncanny resemblance to a young Sam. Some of you may remember Dan Fogler from ‘Good Luck Chuck’ and ‘Balls of Fury’, he typically plays the chubby funny best friend character.

Bill Kinison and steve Delsohn spent 8 years trying to get the project made into a feature full length, but all the talks fell through. Now HBO has stepped up and will air the biopic.

Basis for the telepic is “Brother Sam: The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison,” a memoir written by his brother and manager, Bill Kinison, and Steve Delsohn. A new script has been written by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writer-directors of “American Splendor.”

So there you have it. I think that Sam Kinison deserves the feature full length biopic but I will take what I can get from one of the greatest comedians to ever live. I hope that Dan Fogler does him justice and really gives himself to the role… but not completely.