Kim Kardashian Comedy The Fifth Wheel Lands at Netflix After Bidding War

Several major players, including theatrical distributors and streamers, were competing for the film, according to Deadline, which first reported news of the sale. But two of the five companies backed out at the last minute before Kardashian and co-writers Paula Pell and Janine Brito signed with Netflix on the dotted line.

Pell, a Saturday Night Live alum, is producing The Fifth Wheel with Kardashian. The logline is under wraps, but Kardashian is playing the eponymous fifth wheel alongside a female ensemble cast.Her co-stars have not been announced.

Kardashian, the savvy businesswoman behind the loungewear company Skims and star of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, has been cutting her teeth in the world of scripted entertainment. She starred in the most recent season of American Horror Story alongside Emma Roberts. Kardashian will be heavily involved in her role as a producer, according to Deadline, and plans to use her influencer status to promote The Fifth Wheel. It helps that she has 364 million Instagram followers, as well as a reality show, newly retitled The Kardashians, to document her every move.

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