Aug 13 2008'French Women Don't Get Fat' and 'Freaky Friday 2': Two Movies I'll Never See
Hilary Swank's production company has acquired the rights to adapt the book "French Women Don't Get Fat" into a feature film, which should be good news for anyone who would ever be retarded enough to complain that French women don't get fat. From Variety:
Hilary Swank and producing partner Molly Smith have acquired the rights to adapt the bestselling book "French Women Don’t Get Fat" for the duo to produce through their Alcon Entertainment-based 2S Films.Swank may star in the adaptation that’s being envisioned as a romantic comedy about the manager of a champagne company who learns some tough life lessons.
Heather Hach, who penned the remake of "Freaky Friday" and the "Legally Blonde" musical, will adapt the book.
First published in 2004, non-fiction tome became a bestseller for writer and former Champagne Veuve Clicquot topper Mireille Guiliano, offering insights on how French women manage to stay slim despite enjoying such calorie-rich fare as wine and pastries.
But here's the news from this story that really got me:
Hach is also working on a sequel to "Freaky Friday."
What? A sequel to Freaky Friday? A mom and teenager switched bodies because of an enchanted fortune cookie. Where do you go from there? They switch again? If my mind weren't so shaken from all the Kirk Cameron, I'd probably try to come with some other possibilities, but since it is, here's the trailer to KC's 1987 parent/child brain-swap movie, Like Father, Like Son. There's a theme today.
Reader Comments
1. proteon - August 13, 2008 5:05 PM
Some days you get the bear, some days movie news just plain fucking sucks.
2. whistle - August 13, 2008 5:23 PM
They should just make Freaky Friday 2: Like Father, Like Son - The remake. There they will have the double threat of a sequel (of a remake) and a remake of a hit 80s movie.
3. Jacqueline Hyde - August 13, 2008 5:46 PM
A diet book into a movie? Srsly? It's a DIET book. Not a novel. Once again, Hollywood sucks the big one.
Where's Kirk Cameron & Dudley Moore when you need them?
4. Mary - August 13, 2008 6:12 PM
The author of Freaky Friday wrote two sequels to FF. Summer Switch was a father/son swap, and another book I don't remember the title of where their TV plays the next day's programming.
5. Jeremy - August 13, 2008 6:32 PM
Vice Versa. Never forget.
6. venort - August 14, 2008 12:32 PM
that's almost as dumb as the "I am legend" sequel. THERE WAS ONE BOOK, DAMMIT! ONE!
7. Eville1 - August 14, 2008 2:30 PM
Oh god..as long as no one is running track or being seduced by 80's women with bad hair and Judge Reinhold isn't allowed anywhere near it I think the world might not implode.
Yet.
8. Phi - August 14, 2008 7:18 PM
I'm so glad some one busted out Vice Versa! Fred Savage, Judge Reinhold, where is the sequel?
9. bluechildish - August 14, 2008 8:44 PM
O_O
10. Adam - August 21, 2008 2:32 PM
I'm ashamed to say I saw that movie, but didn't they hint that the magic fortune cookie peddling woman had designs on Lindsay Lohan's brother and grandfather toward the end of the first one?