Nov 28 2007 Matthew Perry Joins '17', Cycle of Endless Age-Changing Movies
There are several lessons you can glean from the popularity and persistence of age-switching comedies like Freaky Friday, Big, and Like Father Like Son.
First, it will be endlessly hilarious if you somehow either age to adulthood or regress to a teenage state overnight, whether due to cursing or surprise wish granting. Second, you will learn an important lesson about being either young or old, depending on which is foreign to you, while remaining largely unfazed that you've experienced proof of magic. And finally, you will discover that people will continually pay to see age-switching comedies, regardless of their quality or originality.
Drawing from this third principle, New Line has a new film in the works that "turns the concept of Big on its head," with Zac Efron playing the 17-year-old version of a just-cast Matthew Perry.
Is this more insulting to Zac Efron, who now must suppose he could age into a fleshy tube and get a reasonable human haircut, or to Matthew Perry, whose youth is being personified as an anime damsel? It might be a tie.
Perry will go from pop to prep for '17' [Hollywood Reporter]
Oct 24 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Billy Ray Cyrus has been cast as the lead in a non-PAX-sponsored movie, blowing my achy-breaky mind. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Jessica Biel will play the lead in Die a Little, a role she reportedly took in place of Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, I will have sex with an older, barely-conscious woman I find at a bar, taking the place of my fantasies of Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman. [Variety]
- Ty Burell has joined the cast of The Incredible Hulk as the green-haired, super-strong Doc Sampson. Burell can currently be seen on Fox's Back to You, which should not be considered an endorsement to watch that for any reason. [IGN]
- Pirates of the Caribbean writers Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are working on a Lone Ranger script for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who will mold it into a multi-billion dollar turd. (PS: Entertainment Weekly, you're really stretching with that "Kemo-savvy" headline.) [EW]
- Leslie Mann has joined the cast of 17 as the wife of Zac Efron, a man who awakens to find himself in the body of a 17-year-old boy again. It all sounds a bit ridiculous to me. I mean, Zac Efron with a wife? [Hollywood Reporter]
