Last time Will Forte spoke about the possibility of a MacGruber 2, he sounded pretty skeptical, as one often will be when their first film couldn't make back a $10 million budget. But that, like the rest of MacGruber's life story, was a long time ago, and speaking to Entertainment Weekly on the subject, Forte now sounds confident a sequel will indeed happen, even if it has to look terrible. Said the star:
"We are going to make MacGruber 2 for sure. Whether we have to do it with a video camera in our backyards - there will be some form of MacGruber 2."
Forte added that, like an increasing number of cult-beloved but completely unprofitable pieces of entertainment, MacGruber may well ultimately end up on Kickstarter. Sadly, still no word on what sort of donation price point it will be to watch MacGruber fuck something.
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- Coming in after news of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's casting is that Josh Brolin and Christopher Meloni too will be adding some desaturated grimaces to Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Meloni will be picking up where he left off with SVU to play a cop, while Brolin is taking over Clive Owen's Dwight, which makes sense: A Dame To Kill For takes place before Dwight's facial reconstruction and after Clive Owen was in things you wanted to see.
- Michael Bay has found another human part to fit among the whirling shards and Mark Wahlberg of Transformers 4: Jack Reynor, a young Irishman with little acting experience but, if history tells us anything, a knock-out Victoria's Secret body to make up for it.
- Will Forte and Tim Robbins are replacing Ty Burrell and Dennis Quaid in Switch, the Elmore Leonard adaptation that functions as both a makeshift prequel to Jackie Brown and way to confuse Jennifer Aniston's résumé.
MacGruber is far funnier than any comedy based on an SNL MacGyver parody has any right to be, so the recently suggested idea of a sequel had some of the original's appreciators, myself included, sort of excited to see where a follow-up might see the main character go [poop]. But according to MacGruber himself, Will Forte, we should probably not be getting ourselves too worked up for this thing, because it's not happening.
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This past weekend, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim made their feature film debut with the premiere of Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, their cilm that presumably delighted expectant Sundance crowds with the long-awaited sight of Chef Goldblum. For those of us not at Sundance, we can see the film on demand starting Friday and in theaters March 2, but until then, here's a clip featuring Tim, Eric, and two seconds of Will Forte that should be made into a gif to loop for eternity. It's no Chef Goldblum, but it's something.
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Just two days after being introduced to the word "shrim," already a new Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie trailer has arrived replete with the usual crazy shit, notsafeforworks content, and appearances by Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Will Forte, Robert Loggia, a suction-cup dildo, and the '80s' greatest red-headed villain, William Atherton. They had me at Chef Goldblum.
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- Two years after his arrest by Swiss police while trying to receive a lifetime achievement award, Roman Polanski will at last accept that award at the Zurich Film Festival. He would appreciate it if no one sends him to jail this time, please.
- Snoop Dogg is attached to star as Fillmore Slim in a biopic about the San Francisco-based blues musician and pimp. Finally, we'll get to see Snoop do some of that "pimpin'" he's talked so much about.
- Sci-fi author and frequent litigator Harlan Ellison claims the upcoming Justin Timberlake movie In Time is stolen from his ideas, and he's suing New Regency and director Andrew Niccol to destroy all copies of the film. Yet the makers of The Adjustment Bureau still haven't done anything about In Time stealing their idea for a dressed up leading man to constantly yank around a beautiful, visibly-distressed woman.
- Will Forte is the latest actor to join the cast of Neighborhood Watch. He joins a cast that includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, and Rosemarie DeWitt, yet somehow includes no museum exhibits come to life.
- Netflix's stupid new pricing model is expected to cause the service to lose a million subscribers in the third quarter. Hopefully that will get rid of the "short wait" I'm supposed to endure before they send me Rock N' Learn: Multiplication Rap.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy's title may be a bit misleading. Yes, it's about a group of people fucking, but this isn't your usual fast-forward-past-all-the-talking-then-clean-yourself-up orgy film we're most accustomed to. In fact, this is basically the antithesis of that: an orgy film that seemingly focuses entirely on the preparations one takes as they and their friends prepare to make it forever awkward to hang out as a group ever again.
Written and directed by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck--former writers for Letterman's talk show, Garry Shandling's fake talk show, and more--the film focuses on a group of longtime friends that appear to frequently hold "dress up like a hick" parties at Jason Sudeikis's family vacation home in the Hamptons. When Sudeikis's dad, Don Johnson, decides to sell the place, the friends eventually come to agree that the best way to say goodbye to their summer retreat is to ruin it like so many sweatsocks: with sweat, friction, and jism. That's about all you get from this trailer, but given the writers' joint résumé and the cast--which includes Will Forte, Lake Bell, Martin Starr, and others--it might be worth giving it a try.
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- Here's a first look at Fili and Kili, two of the The Hobbit's youngest and most Andrew W.K.-inspired dwarves.
- John Cusack is taking over Toby Maguire's role in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy. He'll play a convicted death row inmate whose guilt comes under question when a college dropout and a reporter realize, come on, John Cusack killing a sheriff? Look at the guy!
- If Alec Baldwin can't get himself out of being in Rock of Ages, he's going to at least make sure 30 Rock co-star Will Forte has to be in this POS jukebox musical, too.
- Michael Chiklis has signed on to play the villain opposite Jason Statham in Parker. Taylor Hackford is set to direct this nigh hairless production.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film project since leaving office--and also, notably, since telling everyone that he's grunted atop a non-Shriver--has been decided. It will be Last Stand, a Western that will be the English-language debut of Korean director Kim Ji-woon and is said to be "an old-fashioned Western specifically designed for a 63-year-old broken-down guy." No doubt for a guy with an out-of-place Austrian accent, too.
I hope you've already left work and are on the way home to see that kid of yours, the one with the problem--God, I hope he's OK--because I've got a new MacGruber trailer for you, and it is NOT safe for work. And I don't just mean because your boss has vowed to fire anyone watching any Saturday Night Live feature film post-Wayne's World 2. I mean because there's brains shooting out and use of the word "dick" to mean a male hangdown. That's right: this is a rated Restricted trailer.
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From the minds of WIll Forte, an SNL staff writer, and one of the Lonely Island guys comes a fashionably late television show parody sketch taken to its logical and inevitable conclusion: expensive motion picture. Angus MacGuyver may not have ever made it the big show, but his proudly tardy spoof counterpart MacGruber has got that shit covered.
In this special 30x longer installment of MacGruber, the titular special operative is tasked with confronting the evil Deiter Von Cunth who, on top of having a name that's conspicuously close to offensive slang for the babyhole, has stolen a nuclear warhead and plans to level Washington D.C.
The trailer's jokes may rely a bit too much on MacGruber's blithe ignorance in conversation, but there are a few moments of genuine hilarity when Forte takes advantage of the film's presumed R rating. Because if anything can lift a Saturday Night Live movie above the doldrums of It's Pat or Night at the Roxbury, it's un-bleeped F-words.
And Ryan Phillipe.
No watching this trailer unless you're legally allowed to smoke and buy this month's Hustler, OK?
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A Miata? Not bad. I've always thought of the Ford Probe as king of outdated sporty ridiculousness, but the Miata certainly holds its own.
First Official Photos: MacGruber [/Film]
Good news if you like alliteration, fish, and The Green Mile flexing in an aura of wacky faces. There's this new movie from the Broken Lizard people that appears to have all of those things! Here's your trailer:
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Looks like Lorne Michaels still has his summer job stretching mediocre three-minute sketches into full-length films of dubious quality. Variety is reporting MacGruber, the one-note MacGyver parody and recent Pepsi shill played by Will Forte, will be the next SNL character to find its way to the big screen.
Joining Forte on the quest to write something more akin to Wayne's World than The Ladies Man/Superstar/Night at the Roxbury/Coneheads/etc. will be SNL writer John Solomon and Jorma Taccone, of Lonely Island and Land of the Lost monkey-boy fame, who will also direct.
With an actual MacGyver film also in the works, it looks like studios are feeling the recession and turning to an obvious, foolproof moneymaker: imitations of Richard Dean Anderson. Stargate: The TV Show: The Movie Again can't be far behind.
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