Nov 17 2009 Anna Faris Also in Another Horribly Titled Movie
Remember how annoying girls about a decade ago would sometimes be like, "Yikes, tee em eye! (Too much information!)" Well, someone thought that would make a good title for a modern feature film, and Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris will be starring in it:
Universal Pictures has acquired "TMI," a comic vehicle for Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris.Scripted by Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith and Marc Klein, the comic premise is that while honesty is the best policy for a relationship, "too much information" might not be the best thing.
Ah, how beautifully high concept. Couple makes agreement to tell each other everything; arrangement leads to anger, jealousy, and Yes Man-style comedy; couple finds moral that maybe complete openness really can lead to... TOO MUCH INFORMATION; audience forever forgets hollow film ever existed twenty minutes after exiting theater. Once you've got the cast in place, the "you did WHAT???"s practically write themselves.
Oct 16 2009 Ryan Reynolds Starring in "Dude-in-Drag" Comedy, Which Is a Genre
From the confused, a-man-wearing-a-dress-is-automatically-hysterical mentality that brought you Sorority Boys comes... untitled comedy project about Ryan Reynolds wearing a dress!
Working title reportedly paid "high six figures against seven figures" for the concept, which is being painfully described as, "a dude-in-drag romantic comedy, with Reynolds playing a jilted lover who must disguise himself as a woman and befriend his ex in order to win her back." Because that concept is worth roughly a million dollars.
The studio is now presumably looking for a "Lois Lane type"--a woman who looks dim enough to make her not recognizing her boyfriend in a wig and makeup somehow believable--and an equally stupid-looking best friend who can inadvertently get a crush on Reynolds and convincingly deliver the line, "It's cool; I like 'em muscular, baby!" And also the rights to an Aerosmith song.
Jul 13 2009 Ryan Reynolds is Your Green Lantern
Ryan Reynolds, the man currently set to star in Deadpool and who was last seen pretending he was engaged to Sandra Bullock, has reportedly been cast as Green Lantern in Martin Campbell's adaptation of the superhero property. Early Friday reports claimed the casting race was down to three--Ryan Reynolds, Bradley Cooper, and Justin Timberlake--but by the end of the day the studio realized that every time they brought up Timberlake someone would shout, "Are you fucking serious? Justin Timberlake?", and Reynolds ended up winning the part.
How will this affect the longtime, fan-approved rumor that the actor would be playing The Flash? I still wouldn't completely discount the idea. DC's silver age heroes are all the same strong-jawed face with different haircuts anyway; wouldn't casting Reynolds as every one of them actually be the most authentic casting possible? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to make an all-Reynolds Justice League movie--Eddie Murphy style!
(Thanks, various people who sent this in.)
Jul 10 2009 Green Lantern Casting Narrowed to Three
Our wait for an H.J. has almost ended. The Hollywood Reporter says casting for Hal Jordan, the lead in Warner Bros. Green Lantern movie, is down to three candidates:
Warners has spent the past five months searching for the actor to play Hal Jordan, the hot-shot Air Force pilot who is chosen by a dying alien to be his successor in an intergalactic police force known as the Green Lanterns.This week, the race narrowed to Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds and Justin Timberlake.
The adaptation is being directed by Martin Campbell and--juuuuust a minute. What was that part about Justin Timberlake maybe playing Green Lantern?
May 6 2009 X-Men Begets Wolverine Begets Deadpool
Deadpool, Marvel Comics' "merc with a mouth," who some may know better as Ryan Reynolds in a tank top (see X-Men Origins: Wolverine, web-slingers), is getting his long-awaited shot at a solo film. Variety has the stoy:
Twentieth Century Fox has begun development on "Deadpool," an "X-Men" spinoff that will be crafted as a star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds, who played the character in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."The character is one of the most popular in Marvel Comics' X-Men universe. Deadpool is Wade Wilson, a mercenary who, dying of cancer, submits himself to the Weapon X genetic alteration experiment and emerges as an indestructible semi-sane anti-hero. Reynolds seemed destined to play the character. In one reference in the Marvel Comics, Deadpool is described as a mix between "a Shar Pei and Ryan Reynolds."
In one of the "Easter egg" endings of "Wolverine," Deadpool is seen rising from the rubble and whispering "Shhh" to audiences.
Sounds like Fox is ready to deliver another chapter in their rapidly-declining mutant franchise that will make you say, "Only the casting was anywhere near acceptable."
Even with the after-the-credits hint at a true-to-character, fourth-wall-breaking Deadpool, I just can't see them making a film as self-aware as it needs to be. Particularly because a really well-written Deadpool would open the film by immediately acknowledging and apologizing for participating in Wolverine.
Feb 18 2009 'Wolverine' Television Spot Number Three
Yahoo! Movies has posted the third and final X-Men Origins: Wolverine TV spot. This is the one that reminds you that Wolverine's origin somehow involves a maskless Deadpool, young Cyclops, Emma Frost turning into diamond, and the presence of Will.i.am. Enjoy.
(Oh, and thanks to Carter.)
Jan 19 2009 A Somber Moment with the Cast of 'Wolverine'
I'll accept that someone has seen fit to simplify every superhero/villain costume in this universe down to either a sleeveless shirt or trenchcoat, but what is with this forced mournfulness? The best way to show a movie has the dark, brooding quality of The Dark Knight isn't necessarily to take a photo of the actors doing some kind of stilted group-brood.
Dec 15 2008 'Wolverine' Trailer: See Wolvering & Friends Do Everything Imaginable
Here's the trailer for the movie about that Wolverine character. Watching it has done nothing to lessen my reservations about this being something I'd watch more than once, but there's something I like about its unabashed fan pandering I find almost endearing.
Every comic fan of the '90s has wanted to see classically cool characters Gambit and Deadpool in live-action form, so it makes sense to shoehorn those guys into the plot, but the makers of Wolverine have gone so above and beyond that in terms of fulfilling every strange fan wish they could think of. Wolverine in a boxing match against The Blob, the padded gloves covering his primary weapons? Of course that happens. That was always the nucleus of the script. Wolverine launching off a motorcycle onto the back of a moving helicopter? That has been a fan request for so long, they just had to include it. And so much more:
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Dec 10 2008 I Do Not Accept This 'Proposal' (Trailer)
I don't expect much from a Ryan Reynolds/Sandra Bullock romantic-comedy directed by 27 Dresses' Anne Fletcher (a woman apparently fixated on getting married). Bullock is a horrible boss about to get deported; Reynolds is a guy desperate to keep his job; they're forced to get married and fake domesticity; they hate each other until they fall in love. That's a concept just broad enough to ignore.
I would have let that fly as another hollow but innocent attempt at fusing romance and comedy, The Proposal, but you got greedy. What is this part where the U.S. government insists Sandra Bullock meets and wins over Ryan Reynolds family? Is this a law now? "You may get married and give her a green card, but I insist she first meets your unusual family." I believe they might check that they were co-habitating or something, but this meet the parents thing seems silly. I don't remember that being a condition in the short-lived Head of the Class spin-off, Billy. Am I missing something in this?
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Feb 20 2008 'Wolverine' Adds Reynolds, Kitsch, Black Eyed Pea
It's starting to sound like Wolverine may be the latest superhero movie to fall victim to a classic case of "too many spices in the stew." And while I don't think that's an actual saying, I think you get the point: there's a f***ing ton of characters being added to this movie, making it more and more likely this will turn into a Batman and Robin scenario (i.e., a terrible movie).
Fox has added three more superheroes to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," with Ryan Reynolds set to play Deadpool, "Friday Night Lights" regular Taylor Kitsch to star as Gambit and hip-hop artist will.i.am joining the cast as John Wraith.Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston and Lynn Collins round out the cast as Victor Creed/Sabretooth, Col. William Stryker and Kayla Silver Fox, respectively.
Admittedly, Reynolds as the wise-cracking Deadpool is spot-on casting, Kitsch at least looks the part of Gambit, and will.i.am will surely come in handy when the film needs an inspirational theme song that mixes celebrity endorsement with an unlistenable quality. But really, are they just filling out the toy line at this point? At this rate, I fully expect a scene where Wolverine jumps in a manhole, justifying the "Sewer Swimmin' Wolvie" action figure.
Reynolds, will.i.am join 'Wolverine' [Variety]
Feb 8 2008 'Chaos Theory' Trailer Has Hilariously Red Lettering!
In a movie you'd swear has already been made, Ryan Reynolds lives an absurdly structured life full of specific lists and unchanging schedules--that is, until he misses a ferry and does something with a baby. Then he starts doing anything that would create slapstick comedy or appeal to males 18-35 (bar fighting, interacting with boobs).
I commend the director for attempting to make this a slightly mature film (more naturalistic lighting, not casting Jim Carrey in the lead), but any script that assumes streaking and bar brawls are hilarious only allows for so much dignity. And when the graphics department decides to stick on the same over-inflated crimson lettering used to title every awful comedy from License to Wed to Alvin and the Chipmunks to whatever Eddie Murphy is wearing a fat suit for, it's like a big, puffy red flag of text warning you to stay away.
Thanks to Kyle for inviting us to yet another low-brow, high-concept Ryan Reynolds vehicle.
Nov 14 2007 'Definitely, Maybe' Trailer Definitely Isn't Interesting
Having Ryan Reynolds regale me with tales of his sexual conquests, but toned down for an audience consisting of Abigail Breslin and romantic-comedy fanatics, has never been high on my list of experiences to have before death. But at least now I know that seeing a two-minute preview for such an experience, complete with a comedic record screech, won't change that opinion.
Incidentally, what kind of sick f*** answers his daughter's question of how he met her mom with an hour-long story about the various women he's courted, never revealing who the mother is? If she asks where babies come from, maybe he can give her several detailed stories of the lurid ways he's had sex with women, and she can guess which makes a baby.
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Aug 3 2007 The Nines Trailer
Someone forgot to walk Ryan Reynolds.
Watch this trailer to John August's The Nines and see if you have any idea what it's trying to do besides elicit the response, "That shit looks f***ed up, dog." First it seems like a supernatural horror, then it's like some multiple identity Fight Club nonsense, then it's some kind of Beatles Revolution #9 tribute, then it's some kind of reference to The Sims, then Alanis Morisette's Ironic music video. I don't know what to think.
With this film and The Number 23 with Jim Carrey, is there going to be some new trend of spooky re-occuring number movies? I hope so, because if they ever get to 69 I've got some pretty hilarious and original jokes in store involving simultaneous oral sex.
