According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to PARTYBUDDYS based on the life stories of James King and Jason Roefaro.

Wilmer Valderrama will produce the comedy as a possible starring vehicle. Michael Samonek will pen the screenplay.

King and Roefaro are behind a New York-based company called PartyBuddys, which offers its clients a type of fast-pass to a celebrity lifestyle for a night. Clients can get VIP treatment at clubs with the help of a savvy PartyBuddy, plus be shadowed by pseudo-bodyguards and fake paparazzi.

The idea for the business came from the two men's experience as club-goers dating back to the 1990s when friends were calling them for advice on what do to and where to go. After a near-fatal car accident, Roefaro quit his job at a funeral parlor and convinced King to leave his job as a TV cameraman to start the business.