The Man Who Would Be Polka King is a 2009 English-language Documentary Crime motion picture directed by Maya Forbes and produced by Jack Black, Stuart Cornfeld, Monica Levinson, Priyanka Mattoo, David Permut, Shivani Rawat and Wallace Wolodarsky under the banner of Red Hour Productions in collaboration with Electric Dynamite , Permut Presentations and ShivHans Pictures. A look at the rise and fall of band leader Jan Lewan, whose international Polka empire led to the greatest polka-related financial crime in history. The man who would be polka king stars Jack Black, Jenny Slate, Jason Schwartzman, Jacki Weaver, Michael Byrne, Pete Chacho and William Winchester. The screenplay is written by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky which is inspired from The Man Who Would Be Polka King by Joshua Brown and John Mikulak. Cinematography was done by Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and editing by Catherine Haight. The film has a running time of 95 minutes. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Netflix.