Andy Samberg is about to play a tennis bad boy in an original HBO movie. According to Deadline, HBO is currently assembling the cast for 7 Days in Hell, a tennis-centric mockumentary written by Girls and American Dad! writer Murray Miller based on a concept by Miller and Samberg, who will star opposite Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington. The mockumentary will tell the tale of rivaling tennis players during their legendary seven-day match at Wimbledon, with Samberg as “tennis’ superstar bad boy†Aaron Williams and Harington as Charles Poole, “a tennis prodigy and certified truck driver.†Rounding out the cast will be Fred Armisen, Lena Dunham, Will Forte (playing a tennis historian), Karen Gillan (as supermodel and Charles’s childhood best friend), Howie Mandel, Soledad O’Brien (as herself), Michael Sheen, Mary Steenburgen (as Charles’s psycho mother), and June Squibb. SNL and Funny or Die’s Jake Szymanski will direct.
7 Days in Hell is not the first TV mockumentary project starring SNL grads to be announced this year; in March, IFC announced that they ordered six episodes of American Documentary, a half-hour series of fake documentaries and biopics, from Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers, to air next year.