Jan 27 2009 'Bonnie and Clyde' Now 'Lizzie McGuire and Buddy's Master'
Everyone hates a remake (besides the millions who seem to pay for tickets to see remakes), and there are so many lately that it would be easy for me to just sit here and slowly massage my temples at the idea of director Tonya S. Holly attempting to make a better version of the highly acclaimed 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde. But hey, Bonnie and Clyde were real people, and there's more than one way to tell their story without it being a "remake" per se, so go for it, Holly. Who am I to judge? Except I do find it a little odd that you've decided to use Hilary Duff and the child owner of Air Bud as the famous criminal couple:
Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers will star in indie feature "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," produced by Cypress Moon Studios.Tonya S. Holly will direct the film from her own script, which is a new adaptation of the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow rather than a remake of the 1967 classic film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Holly began working on the project after reading old newspaper articles about the gangster pair in an abandoned house on her family's property.
Holly wrote, produced and directed the feature "When I Find the Ocean."
"The Story of Bonnie and Clyde" is set to lense in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Natalie Canerday and Rance Howard will also star.
Maybe the casting will make more sense once it's revealed that "new adaptation" means "now includes musical numbers and a canine sidekick with the uncanny ability to wield a tommy gun."
Hilary Duff set for 'Bonnie and Clyde' [Variety]
Apr 4 2008 New 'War, Inc.' Trailer for 'Grosse Pointe Blank'
Do you ever see a movie, then years later see it again and you realize a lot of your memory of it was wrong? I ask not because a reassessment of Short Circuit revealing that a remake isn't really that tragic, but because that's how it just was for me, watching this trailer to War Inc. I swear to you, when I saw this a decade ago, it was set in Michigan, and was called Grosse Pointe Blank! Where did all this political stuff come from?! And I would have sworn Minnie Driver was the love interest, not Marisa Tomei--and that Hilary Duff was far too young to play a legal lust object. But since everything else is the same, I'll have to just attribute this one to bad memory. Weird!
Aw, who am I kidding. Cusack, you old dog, you've charmed me again with your lovable everyman of a hitman. When can I get my ticket?
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Mar 25 2008 'War, Inc.' Poster/Quotes Page
How often I've watched CNN--during the hypothetical times between celebrity gossip and Nancy Grace when they have relevant news--and thought, man, if only we could somehow insert John Cusack's character from Gross Pointe Blank into this Iraq situation, along with Hilary Duff doing a horrible accent. Who would have thought my dream could become movie reality, with a poster with multiple taglines and more quoting than some frat boys remembering an Old School scene?
Despite making some pretty blatant political points (such as the eye-rolling money/bullet comparison above), the film looks kind of charming in a typically Cusackian way, and has a solid cast. So if you haven't seen the trailer, check it out under the cut.
Oct 2 2007 Hilary Duff Tackles Tough Race Issues Adorably
I already knew Hilary Duff as a humanitarian when she graced us with the character of Lizzie McGuire, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, its various made-for-TV movies, and the accompanying songs to those movies--not to mention her pop albums and public appearances, where that equine grin lights up hearts--but now Hollywood Reporter tells me she's about to become a positive saint. With her newest comic role in Greta, the young actress plays to tackle the hottest topic of 1978, interracial dating!
Duff will play a young waitress who falls for the restaurant's cook from the wrong (black) side of the tracks. Her grandparents, sadly played by Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy, don't approve of the match because they're racists. I know, it sounds really good, right? Wait'll you hear the best part: their racist suspicions are confirmed upon finding out this fellow is indeed the criminal his skin color implied.
I think this thing is going to break down a lot of (barely present) barriers.
Stars align for teen pic [Hollywood Reporter]
