Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin have revealed plans to remake the '70s sitcom Good Times, now turning it into a feature film to explore socio-political strife and whether anyone still responds to a man enthusiastically screaming about dynamite.
Jon Stewart's routine of helping us lazy dummies feel informed about current political events is getting a brief disruption, as the host of The Daily Show will reportedly take three months off to now help us lazy dummies feel informed about older political events.
Because they love each other, he and his bald brothers, Larry David has decided on Paul's Greg Mottola to direct a largely-improvised comedy he plans to star in for Fox Searchlight.
Sunday at SXSW, the documentary Brooklyn Castle premiered and inspired crowds with its portrait of I.S. 318, a Brooklyn school wherein well over half the students live below the poverty line. The school also has the winningest junior high chess team in the nation, which makes for the inspiring part that Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin think could be recreated. They've reportedly bought up the remake rights to the documentary, presumably to turn the story into a rousing, inner-city youth melodrama that for once won't involve some form of dance. It will probably involve a kid characterized by a cowboy hat, though, and it will likely also involve a skinny white lady there to train the kids' DANGEROUS MINDS--because, in fairness, those are elements already seen in the documentary. The chance of chess terms being used as strained, extended metaphor is also through the roof. But that will come later, once Amy Adams probably signs on. For now, here's the recent SXSW trailer for the original:
The ridiculously expensive 3-D Cleopatra biopic James Cameron planned on making with Angelina Jolie--until Fox convinced him to just keep pushing out those Avatars, that is--may now be finding its way into the hands of David Fincher. According to Deadline, Sony and producer Scott Rudin are talking to the Social Network director about taking over the long in-development project--and maybe not even making it in 3-D, as crazy as that sounds.
Fincher, however, is still supposed to direct The Millennium Trilogy (of which he's finishing up the first chapter), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and a movie about chess whiz Bobby Fischer, so it's not really clear when he'll have time to dress Angelina Jolie up in robes and a light coating of bronzer. Still, in the interest of how many moneys and movie trophies this would probably end up getting, apparently the deal is "more likely than not to happen" and Fincher will end up directing what's Deadline's Mike Fleming is calling "the first telling of the Cleopatra story from a woman's perspective." This one's for the ladies, y'all! And for the men, there's always Cleopatra 2525. While not a historical biopic in the strictest sense of the word, it does have a breast-augmentation-based origin story, so that's something.
A Facebook movie without topless, drug-loving teens? I'm afraid that might be a possibility. After seeing an early screening of David Fincher's The Social Network, Facebook executives are reportedly pretty upset with the how it's shaping up, and I'm afraid the final cut's number of girls offering cocaine off their bare breasts may suffer:
[Producer Scott] Rudin tells the New York Times two top Facebook executives “saw the movie a while ago, and they do not like it".Movie chiefs have agreed to make changes and are considering deleting a controversial scene in which Justin Timberlake, playing Napster co-founder Sean Parker, gives a speech while teenage girls in the background offer lines of cocaine for partygoers to snort off their bared breasts.
But Rudin has assured cinemagoers the film hasn't been completely transformed, adding: "We made exactly the movie we wanted to make."
This is why only defunct internet companies should get films made about them. You know how thrilled the boys down at Geocities would be to see some coke whores in the background of The Under-Construction Personal Homepage?
(Thanks, Flex)
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