February 14, 2006
Murphy is a Starship
Eddie Murphy has signed on to star in Peter Segal's Starship Dave. The story involves a group of small aliens looking to save their doomed planet, leading to their use of Dave (Murphy) as a starship. I'm quite excited for Eddie Murphy's return to the genre he first nailed with Adventures of Pluto Nash: science fiction for incredibly stoned college kids.
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Kutch Keeps Making Shows
In a deal with Time Warner, Ashton Kutcher's production company Katalyst Films, creators of Punk'd, will make a short-form series for AOL.com and AOL Instant Messenger service. Katalyst co-owner Jason Goldberg said of the show:
The programming is going to have a serious attitude behind it. There might be hurt feelings.
I think it's probably going to be most insulting to absolutely anyone who ever tried to get a show created, ever, and now must know that Ashton Kutcher is even further ahead of them. The having "serious attitude" claim doesn't impress me at all, either. Fruit Roll-Ups said the same thing a few years back, and all they did was add some colors and shapes you could rip out.
More Batman Casting
Several new rumors have popped-up about casting in the next Batman film. First, Brad Dourif, who played Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings, may be up for the role of Dr. Arkham. Bob Hoskins, too, may have landed a part as Italian mobster Salvatore Maroni, presumably because all Italian mobsters are fat, little, bald men, and you can't have Danny DeVito in every Batman. Finally, Dr. Harleen Quinzel, the scientist who becomes The Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn, is rumored for Emily Watson. Emily Watson? Isn't Harley Quinn supposed to be a young, sassy, little cutie? I like Emily Watson, but not for this role. Is there a villain known for being kind of quiet and homely?
Talladega Nights Trailer
The trailer for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is now up on Sony's site. It's another collaboration between Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the same creative team of Anchorman, so you'd think it should be pretty good, but the trailer didn't really sell me. Hopefully, the actual movie will be funnier, because frankly, it needs to be funny. The day NASCAR stops being funny is the day the rednecks have won. The day they've finally completed their exhaustive agenda... The day they got-r-done.
Bryan Singer Still Logan's Running
While promoting Superman Returns this weekend, Bryan Singer dropped a reminder that he's still going to remake Logan's Run with his Usual Suspects co-writer, Christopher McQuarrie:
I'm taking concepts in the book and the movie, the 1976 movie, and some of my own concepts and merging them together for my interpretation. That's as best as I can say. It takes place in a unique environment, one we haven't seen in a movie before. In a mainstream movie before. ... If we do that, it would happen soon. It would happen as early as this year, the end of this year. I guess it would be for ... When would Logan's Run be for? ... 2008.
Though I can't remember if I actually like Logan's Run, or just the robot in it that keeps talking about protein from the sea, I'm definitely excited that Bryan Singer is remaking it.
For those that don't know, Logan's Run describes a distyopian future where the people are euthanized at the age of 21, or in the film version, 30. Let's hope Singer is smart enough to keep the age upped over 21; sci-fi nerds will never get behind a fictional society where they'd never lose their virginity.
World Trade Center Teaser Poster
Here's the teaser poster to Oliver Stone's upcoming 9/11 film, World Trade Center. I worry people "won't get it." With just the title and the giant silhouettes of the World Trade Center-- is it to subtle? Maybe there should be a cartoon Osama bin Laden dressed like the Red Baron flying an old plane, too. I say just scrap what you've got and start over. Save this one for World Trade Center II.
