Sep 23 2009 'Sweet Valley High' Getting Diablo Codied
Finally, I'll be able to throw out all my shelves and shelves of Sweet Valley High books and replace them with a single DVD! Variety reports Universal has hired Diablo Cody to write and produce an adaptation of the book series that's already spawned eight spin-offs (including something called "Unicorn Club"), a TV Show, a musical, and a 1989 board game with a commercial so annoying I still grind my teeth to it to this day. (Apparently Universal didn't notice how Jennifer's Body tanked.)
The series focuses on a set of identical twins who, following the Pattydukian model, have comically dissimilar personalities. One is the uptight nerd; the other is super horny; both have blond hair. You get it.
Personally, I'm really hoping Cody bases her screenplay on Double Love. Or Dangerous Love.
Or Racing Hearts, or Kidnapped!, or Head Over Heels, or Crash Landing!, or Too Much in Love, or Hostage!, or Lovestruck, or Bitter Rivals, or Jealous Lies, or The New Jessica, or Secret Admirer, or Rumors, or Hard Choices, or Family Secrets, or Slam Book Fever, or White Lies, or Lost at Sea, or Teacher Crush, or Boy Trouble, or Who's Who?, or The New Elizabeth, or The Ghost of Tricia Martin, or The Parent Plot, or Ms. Quarterback, or Starring Jessica!, or Rock Star's Girl, or The Girl They Both Loved, or Steven's Bride, or Jessica Against Bruce, or Love Letters for Sale, or Don't Go Home with John, or...
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Jun 30 2009 Megan Fox Indulges Cheerleader Fantasies
Part of her plan to indulge every classic sex fantasy a man could have, Megan Fox, just seen playing a babe mechanic in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, will soon be seen playing a babe cheerleader in the Diablo Cody-written horror-comedy Jennifer's Body (big Hole fan, I guess?), and Film School Rejects has some Empire Magazine scans from the film.
Fox will soon be seen as a corset-wearing Wild West prostitute in Hex, so now she has only to play a Catholic school girl and a pigtailed milkmaid to complete her mission and return to her home planet. (It's one of those scantily-clad lady planets from Star Trek, obviously.)
Oct 23 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Data and Chunk have confirmed what Mikey and Mouth already told us: that they've been contacted to do voices for an animated Goonies movie, also confirming--what was once thought a rumor--that Chunk ate his weight in Godfather's pizza. [Empire]
- Diablo Cody seems to be the new 'it' screenwriter, with the Juno penner working on a burlesque musical, a Steven Spielberg television series (United States of Tara), and now a comedic supernatural thriller titled Jennifer's Body. I find myself somewhat embittered that someone named Diablo Cody is having so much more success than me. [/Film]
- Zooey Deschanel has joined Jim Carrey in Yes Man, about a man who decides to change his life by saying yes to everything. Hey, that sounds like what Owen Wilson says to do in The Darjeeling Limited, except much stupider. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Producer Brian Glazer and director Ridley Scott talked to MTV about their Russell Crowe-starrer, Nottingham, calling it, "the Gladiator version of Robin Hood." I guess that makes Kevin Costner's Prince of Thieves the "Field of Dreams version of Robin Hood." [MTV]
