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“Pez Outlaw,” Steve Glew is thrilled his unbelievable story is hitting the mainstream due to a brand new Netflix documentary … however he is obtained his eyes on larger issues, and already has a big-name celeb he needs to see play him on TV.
Steve tells TMZ … he is been ready 25 years for his story to be made right into a documentary, and he is in preliminary talks to create a story TV present about his life … and he needs to forged Jack Black as himself.
Netflix is getting rave opinions for Bryan & Amy Storkel‘s doc on Steve, “The Pez Outlaw,” the story of how he made a ton of cash promoting uncommon Pez dispensers again within the day.
While Steve does not need to jeopardize his potential TV collection deal … our sources inform us Steve’s in talks with CBS Studios and Andy Samberg‘s manufacturing firm, Party Over Here.
Steve tells us why Jack could be the right actor to play him … explaining he is the fitting man to seize all of Steve’s idiosyncrasies and convey him to life.
The Pez story is fairly wild … Steve went to Europe within the ’90s and smuggled again tons of uncommon Pez dispensers to promote to American collectors … with some people shelling out as a lot as $11,000 for a single dispenser.
Steve says he thinks the Netflix doc will encourage extra people to get into gathering Pez … and he tells us why he warned present collectors to purchase no matter they’ve their eyes on ASAP, earlier than the documentary got here out.
No phrase if Jack’s an enormous Pez fan … however Steve tells us what occurred to most of his private assortment.