Richard Simmons back in spotlight with unauthorized Pauly Shore biopic

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William Earl Pauly Shore‘s performance as Richard Simmons is seeing the light of day, just days after plans for a feature film biopic were announced. A 10-minute short film starring Shore, titled “The Court Jester,” premiered at the Cabin in Park City on Friday. The event isn’t an official Sundance Film Festival screening, but was certainly positioned to draw in festival goers.

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So much for all that respect?

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Pauly Shore is speaking out after Richard Simmons slammed his new movie.

Richard Simmons has returned to social media as news hit the internet that Pauly Shore is starring in a short film portraying him. On Wednesday, The Lewis Brother YouTube channel shared an official teaser for the short titled, The Court Jester.The news made it to Simmons, who disappeared from the public eye in 2014. Taking to his Facebook, the 75-year-old wrote, “Hi Everybody! You may have heard they may be doing a movie about me with Pauly Shore.

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X/Twitter a promotional poster for a short film named The Court Jester, in which he also portrays Simmons. The film is set to be shown at Sundance Film Festival this week.Shore wrote: “If you haven’t heard yet, my Richard Simmons short is playing at #Sundance. “The Court Jester” premiers at The Cabin #ParkCity this Friday, Jan 19 at 8pm PT and then the world will be able to watch it too.

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in the teaser trailer for the upcoming short film “The Court Jester.” However, Simmons himself is not fine with the “Encino Man” playing him in the short, or in an unrelated biopic in development at the Wolper Organization, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.“Richard and I are not endorsing this project,” Simmons’ rep told ET in a statement on Wednesday. “It is unauthorized. I spoke to Pauly last year and told him [Richard] is not ready to tell his story.”Shore looks like a dead ringer for Simmons in the trailer and promo stills released for “The Court Jester,” which show the comic sporting the fitness legend’s trademark curly red hair, uber-short shorts and sparkly blue tank top.

Pauly Shore is playing Richard Simmons in an upcoming short film, and later a full feature film, but the 75-year-old fitness guru isn’t in support.

Ethan Shanfeld Just hours after it was announced that Pauly Shore would play Richard Simmons in an upcoming biopic, the reclusive fitness guru has spoken out against the film. “Hi Everybody! You may have heard they may be doing a movie about me with Pauly Shore. I have never given my permission for this movie.