Feb 15 2006Goldblum Seeing Red
Jeff Goldblum is set to take on the lead role in a new pilot being made at NBC titled Seeing Red:
"Red," from NBC Universal TV Studio, will be directed by Oscar-nominated Frank Darabont from a script by Graham Yost. It centers on an eccentric, brilliant cop (Goldblum) with the ability to talk to dead victims, who help him solve his cases.
After considering this premise, I think I've come up with the format of what will become the obligatory scene in every episode.
Scene: Morgue
Cop: Jeff Goldblum, did I just hear you talking to a corpse?
JG: Uh...no, that's silly. I was just talking on my cell phone.
Cop: Then why isn't your phone out?
JG: Ut oh!
Jeff Goldblum makes a sympathetic shrug to the camera, turns into a fly.
Reader Comments
1. LaydeeBug - February 15, 2006 1:16 PM
Didn't they try this with Eliza Dushbag in Tru Calling (a HUGE waste of money and TV time if you ask me).
2. saveferris - February 15, 2006 3:18 PM
if he can talk to the corpse, why doesn't he just ask them who/what killed them and why?
the only way you can make a logical 30 minute show based on this concept is if in every episode ridiculous over-the-top things happen that prevent jeff goldblum from making it to the morgue.
and in that case, the only way i'd watch it is if the benny hill music was a staple of the show.
3. xAgonyxScenex - February 15, 2006 7:16 PM
Tru Calling...Ghost Wisper...now this....great -_-'
4. Praz - February 16, 2006 9:53 AM
Oh, so Goldblum plays an eccentric genius? Gee, that's not exactly the same role that he plays in all of his movies. At least Eliza Dushku was hot. Anyways, this premise goes back alot further than Tru Calling: The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes both had characters that could speak to the dead, as did Beetlejuice before them.