Broken Lizard, the team behind Super Troopers and Club Dread, is back with a brand new project titled Quasi, a spoof of the classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame tale.
Variety reports that the feature film is being made for Searchlight Pictures, and it will exclusively premiere on the Hulu streaming service here in the United States.
Production is already underway. Here’s the synopsis…
“A hapless hunchback yearns for love, but finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the king of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.”
Kevin Heffernan is directing the film, as well as starring and producing alongside Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske.
The original tale, written by Victor Hugo in 1831, centers on a deformed bell-ringer named Quasimodo, spawning various adaptations including a Disney animated movie.