A 'Key' deal for Meyers

"Saturday Night Live" star Seth Meyers has sold a kinky comedy pitch to Paramount Pictures as a potential big-screen starring vehicle for himself. "Key Party" revolves around a couple looking to spice up their love life by going to a wife-swapping party, which in turn threatens to destroy their marriage. Meyers, a former Chicago improvisor, appeared in a similar scene on "SNL." Meanwhile, Fox said his brother, "Mad TV" alum Josh Meyers, will join "That '70s Show" as a college student hired to work at Hyde's record store.

SNL's Seth Meyers sells his comedy pitch Key Party to Paramount Pictures.
By Mark Umbach

Saturday Night Live-er Seth Meyers has sold his comedy pitch Key Party to Paramount Pictures. Meyers will also potentially star in the project, which SNL producer Lorne Michaels will produce with John Goldwyn. Jill Messick will executive produce on behalf of Michaels' Broadway Video Entertainment, while Mike Shoemaker, also from SNL, will co-produce.

The story centers on a couple going through a down point in their marriage. In order to spice things up, they decide to attend a key party, and in the process, their marriage may not survive.

Dan Levine, Senior Vice President of Production, Matt Jackson, Vice President of Production, and creative exec Eben Davidson will oversee the project for Paramount.

Meyers Swings Into New Comedy
SNL star sets up flick.
by IGN FilmForce

July 28, 2005 - Saturday Night Live cast member Seth Meyers is making the jump to the big screen. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Meyers has sold a new film pitch called Key Party to Paramount Pictures as a possible starring vehicle.

The comedy concept reportedly revolves around a couple who tries spicing up their relationship by attending a "key party" for swingers. As you might expect, the decision threatens to destroy their marriage. There's no word on who might play the female lead. SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels will produce the film.

Meyers is currently shooting American Dreamz for Universal Pictures and director Paul Weitz.

He's probably best known for his Saturday Night Live impressions of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry and actor Hugh Grant, and also appears in the recurring "Jarret's Room" sketch as DJ Jonathan Feinstein as well the Irish talk show bit "Top O' The Morning" as William Fitzpatrick, opposite Jimmy Fallon. Meyers got his start with the improv/sketch comedy group Boom Chicago Theatre and Chicago's ImprovOlympic.

July 28, 2005
Paramount goes to a Key Party

Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live) has sold his pitch Key Party to Paramount Pictures, and may star in the film. The movie is more or less exactly as the title describes, centering on a couple trying to spice up their life by going to a key party. The decision threatens to tear their marriage apart. Source: The Hollywood Reporter