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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here with Elston's review of the past short work week out in Hollywood. Not a whole lot of news because of the 3 day week, but what there is is pretty damn cool...
Now for your pleasure while you munch out on the last of those Turkey day leftovers, here's Elston Gunn and...
THE WEEKLY RECAP
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Hey. Hope you all had a good holiday weekend.
CASTING
THE WEEKLY RECAP
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Hey. Hope you all had a good holiday weekend.
CASTING
Hey. Hope you all had a good holiday weekend.
CASTING
* Harvey Keitel, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mary-Louise Park join the cast
of RED DRAGON, based on the book by Thomas Harris, for Universal and
director Brett Ratner. Production is scheduled to begin in January. Anthony
Hopkins, Edward Norton and Emily Watson also star. Ted Tally adapted the
screenplay.
* Annabella Sciorra and Cary Elwes join the cast of the indie pic AMERICAN
CRIME, starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Kip Pardue, for director Dan Mintz
and Silent Road Prods. It's about a TV news crew that, while investigating
a murder, discovers a tape of the victim being followed and eventually
killed. They end up taking matters into their own hands after a sheriff
dismisses the incident as accidental.
* Martin Lawrence is in talks to star in THE BOMB, written by Darryl Quarles
(BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE, BLACK KNIGHT) for 20th Century Fox/Regency Enterprises.
The project is described as a black remake of the 1979 pic 10, starring
Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. Production may begin in February. It's about a
married record exec who has a midlife crisis and follows a model to the
Caribbean.
* Seann William Scott will star opposite Chow Yun-Fat in BULLETPROOF for
director Paul Hunter and MGM.M. The story, written by Cy Voris and Ethan
Reiff and based on the cult comic, follows a Tibetan martial arts master who
becomes mentor to an urban kid.
* Will Smith is eyeing as his next project either an adaptation of John
Grisham's THE RUNAWAY JURY for New Regency, a sequel to BAD BOYS for
director Michael Bay or I AM LEGEND, also for Bay.
* Britney Spears and Quincy Jones will play themselves in AUSTIN POWERS IN
GOLDMEMBER for director Jay Roach. The film will be released by New Line on
July 26.
* George Clooney will star in the sci-fi thriller SOLARIS for director
Steven Soderbergh, James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century
Fox. It's based on the Russian novel by Stanislaw Lem and centers on an
astronaut sent to rescue scientists on a space station. He finds the
commander dead and the two survivors driven mad by visions that soon appear
to him as well. Shooting may begin in April.
* Gabriel Macht is joining Al Pacino, Colin Farrell and Bridget Moynahan in
THE FARM for director Roger Donaldson and Spyglass/Touchstone. Shooting
begins Dec. 3 in Toronto.
* Claire Bloom will star in BOOK OF EVE for Lions Gate and director Claude
Fournier, based on the 1973 novel by Constance Beresford Howe. Daniel
Lavoie, Susannah York, Julian Glover and Luck Mervil also star.
* Vincent Riverside (GROOVE) joins Dana Carvey in MASTER OF DISGUISE for
Revolution Studios.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures have hired Elizabeth Allen and Nick
Pustay to write the feature adaptation of Jerry Spinelli's novel STARGIRL.
The comedy focuses on an eccentric student who makes life at her high school
interesting with her unconventional ways and selfless spirit.
* James Mangold is in talks to direct I.D., written by Michael Cooney, for
Columbia Pictures and producer Cathy Konrad. Shooting may begin in
February. The story centers on 10 strangers who are stranded at a desert
motel by a violent storm and are suddenly murdered one by one. As the death
toll rises, the survivors start to turn on one another before a final twist
that reveals the true identity of the killer.
* Shawn Levy (upcoming BIG FAT LIAR) will direct and produce ZITS, a
live-action adaptation of the comic strip of the same name, for Universal,
Shady Acres and Marc Platt Prods.
* Brett Ratner is in talks to direct SAMURAI JACK, a live-action feature for
New Line Cinema and his own Rat Entertainment based on the Cartoon Network
series. Series creator Genndy Tartakovsky will write the script. Samurai
Jack is an ancient Japanese warrior, son of an emperor who was defeated by
an evil wizard. Jack trains to get revenge, and when he is about ready to
finish off the wizard, his foe sends him into a time portal into the future.
* Andrew Davis (COLLATERAL DAMAGE) will direct HOLES in March for Phoenix
and Walden Media. The project is based on the popular Louis Sachar novel.
* Producers James Burke will direct LEGACIES, a film noir project based on a
play he produced with Scott Disharoon. The two have joined forces to launch
Entitled Entertainment for which they have some projects in development.
LEGACIES will be their first project.
* Barry Levinson is attached to develop, direct and produce LAFAYETTE,
written by Dan Gordon, for Warner Bros. and Intermedia. The feature will
center on the story of French general Marquis de Lafayette who, at the age
of 18, was a major supporter of the American military in the Revolutionary
War and a surrogate son to George Washington.
* Andrew Bergman will direct the comedy SONNY BRIGHT for 20th Century Fox
and producers Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Wayne Rice and Gina Goldman wrote
the script about a low-level government employee whose airplane seatmate
just got out of jail and is on his way to meet a beautiful female pen pal.
When the con man suddenly dies, the man breaks the news to the pen pal, but
she mistakes him for the ex-con and uses him to plot her own kidnapping to
get away from her gangster husband.
* Fox 2000 has grabbed the pitch DJ from scribes Jon Reiss and Jefery Levy
for Edmonds Entertainment to produce. The project is described as SHAMPOO
meets SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and focuses on a superstar DJ.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Disney has optioned skateboarding star Tony Hawk's autobiography HAWK:
OCCUPATION: SKATEBOARDER as well as his life rights for a biopic to be
produced by Andrew Gunn. Hawk will executive produce through his 900 Films.
The pic will focus on Hawk's life as a teenager during the 1980s, when he
was ridiculed by his peers for his undersize frame and a passion for a sport
deemed uncool.
* Miramax Films has now nabbed the option and license fees for THE GREEN
HORNET for a feature which may be co-produced by Universal Pictures.
Until next week.
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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I think this is the shortest weekly recap I have ever been privy to. RAGE ON, BITCHES!!!!
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Brett Ratner isn't fit to direct Mentos commercials.
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This is WAY off topic, but i just saw Man Who Wasn't There and i'm conviced that Billy Bob Thornton is BORN to play Rorshach! That is all
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to write a program to periodically monitor this page for updates, and have it automatically post messages to new stories, something like, say, "Can't wait...such a huge fan!"? ___ Which is more sad, someone actually posting these messages, or someone writing a script to do it for them? (Or the fact that it's hard to tell typical human TB inanities from computer-generated ones?)
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Aloha AICN 'tis I BUZZARO ring leader of PUBIC ENEMY a supergroup of talkbackers who are a 3rd rate rip off of the Mighty Mister Maverik. If Buzz is Pepsi, then we are RC COLA. Also sorry about the pre mature posting I assure you this is the only thing I do prematurely. Yah right. This week we learn that Limp Bizkit's FRED DURST is moving to Europe since everyone hear is "drinking massive amounts of HATORADE"...I think this idiot is trying to say since no one likes him here, he's leaving for Europe. Yeah they'll love you too there man, they hate americans anyway especially dirty red hat wearing ones. Call Fred at work 310 865 7671 or e-mail him at flawlessgroup@earthlink.net and tell him that you'll miss him. Here's an apparently highly caffeinated CHICKEN BONE JONES with his 2 cents :"Whoa what the fuck is going on in this world. First of all slammin' Salma Hayek dumps my boy Ed Norton, and now I find out that slammin Kim Bassinger is fucking Eminem on the set on their new movie. Good god man, I need to know how to rap so I can get myself a slam piece like Kim Bassinger, or I'll just hold out for single Salma Hayek's sweet sweet patootie. I bet Alec Baldwin shows up drunk on the set of that movie in his pajamas and beats the piss out of Eminem. CBJ OUT." Okay now here's Mr Gwieves..."Oh hi, I owiginawwy had something ewse to wite but I just found out thwough my souwces that Bwitney Speaws was just busted fowa undewage dwinking. This makes me vewwy happy because if the next time she is dwinking I will tew hewa that I am fwom NSYNC too and she will show me those big Bwitney boobies. bye" Thank you Mr Gwieves as always. Well that's it for this week's "What A Brotha Know" anyone have anything to contribute feel free! We'll print your thoughts e-mail us at MrG@Hollywood.com replies guaranteed. Especially if you all call Barbara Walters right now and tell her to do an episode on AICN talkbackers and we'll get Harry and Elston on there too yeah...call her at (212) 456 7777 and tell her that I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found and I'm hungry like the wolf. All Hail NEDS ATOMIC DUSTBIN. Buzzaro out.
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Clooney + Solaris = Great concept destroyed, someone stop this man before he destroys another film. By all accounts hes a great guy but he makes truly awful films.
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Nov 26, 2001 2:45:41 AM CST
Martin Lawrence stars in THE BOMB? Sometimes it's just too e
by cash bailey
Mangold's I.D. sounds cool. I love a good siege picture.
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Nov 26, 2001 2:48:10 AM CST
Damn, McKenzie, how much longer are you gonna keep that up?
by cash bailey
And Christopher, you'd be Soderbergh's bitch given the chance. Don't try to deny it.
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is a big break for Ratner, so big actually that the cynic in me can't help but wonder if he can handle it. This is not another Chris Tucker buddy-comedy nor shallow capraesque sentimentality like Family Man. And it certainly isn't a Mariah Carey promo. Even the mighty Ridley Scott had trouble with related material...but hey, I can't envision Bay directing IAL ur Clooney in Solaris either. So prove me wrong, misters Ratner, Bay and Soderbergh. After all, that's your job. And to complete this monday whine: a remake of "10"? With notoriously unfunny M.Lawrence? Perfetto.
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TAKEN FROM THE INDIANS -- We hosted the entire Maverik fam at Casa De Maverik this year. Talk about a pain the ass! I sent Mrs. Buzz down to the local Liquor Mall with a rented moving truck to stock up. We're actually a very traditional family with a lot of annual customs. For example, early in the morning, the day before Thanksgiving, we Maverik men set out in our 4x4s for an old fashioned roadkill hunt. This Thanksgiving was special because it was the first time Buzz Jr. was old enough to get in on the carnage. Mind you, he's still a little guy and has to be in a carseat (stupid California politicians). I bolted it onto the roof of my truck which gave him a good vantage point for manning the harpoon gun and winch. I was never prouder than when my boy reeled in that whatever-the-hell-it-used-t'-be that I'd ran over.
The next afternoon, a feast fit for a court jester was laid out on the table. Roast roadkill with psychadelic mushroom stuffing, all the fixin's, including pumpkin pie with warm peyote sauce. All the Maverik's were there: Ma & Pa -- patted down for concealed weapons and kept at opposite ends of the table for liability purposes; my brothers Cav, Che, Spook, Crash and their common law wives and alleged kids, especially my nephew Mosh and my nieces Kit, Sis and Lil. Some of the freaks from Pa's travelin' sideshow. It was up to me to carve the...uh, whatever and say the blessing:"You all know that Thanksgiving is an important holiday to us. Our ancestor Cotton Maverik skied over behind the Mayflower. He soon distinguished himself in the Plymouth colony as a builder of stock, a public drunkard and by accusing his neighbors of witchcraft. He started a great American tradition by suggesting to the other white guys that they kill the Indians and take their land. We have a lot to be proud of. And a lot to be thankful for. Our families, our freedom, our lax criminal justice system. I personally am thankful for President Bush, our armed forces and the fact that a wife cannot testify against her husband. Among our blessings, we count prosperity, health, love and the fact that this is a country where a man can still make his living by knife fighting. Now, I think we should take a moment to remember those less fortunate than us...like the guy we have locked up in the garage. Okay, who wants dark meat?" See you at Weight Watchers... -
Clooney's been racking up great films recently: "Three Kings," "Out Of Sight," "O Brother Where Art Thou?," the upcoming "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Even "Oceans Eleven" looks pretty entertaining. Clooney is cool. Anyway, a "Zits" movie might be kinda neat too, it's a very charming comic strip. Hmm, I wonder how Britney will fit into "Austin Powers." (shrug) Maybe Scott Evil will shag her! :)
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Holes is one of the most intelligent young adult novels I've seen. It should make a great movie. And as a preemptive strike against those who would attack my reading ability, Mama Socko works as a librarian at a middle school, and periodically loans me books from work. This is how I was introduced to not only Holes, but Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and The Golden Compass. I encourage everyone to give Holes a look, it's damn near perfect.
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Nov 26, 2001 5:59:06 AM CST
Yes a ripoff of "10" with no-talent Black Knegro Martin Lawrence
by bari umenema
Dear Mr. Bin Laden: Could you please just nuke Hollywood now? Sure I'll die along with the rest of the worthless scum out here but it'll be worth it! Thanks Osama!
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Martin Lawrence in talks to star in I WANT MY EIGHT DOLLARS BACK. Yes, it is too easy. Also, Jimminy Queequeg is directing THE FIBONACCI MURDERS, about 100 unknowns trapped at the Silverdome getting killed off 1 by 1 by 2 by 3 by 5 by 8 ...
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Sorry, I just spent the last 10 days or so tuning out the majority of my husband's Bible-thumping relatives during our stay in Texas so am not quite up to my usual levels of concentration. Of course, being a TB'er here on good ole AICN could be considered training for visits to the in-laws as I recall all the "fan mail" I have ignored in the past. There's not much to say about Texas except that they tend to place their state prisons next to Rest Areas to either keep the escapees from having to chance hitchhiking or to save money on the "State Prison: Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers" signs we saw in Arizona and that the state song seems to be "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy". Oh yeah, and a restaurant called "Papadeoux's" has all-you-can-eat lobster for 29.95! Between that and Thanksgiving, it was a tight squeeze in the Explorer for the last half of the trip. We drugged the kids and completed the remainder in only 18 hours!____One last thing...Why is it that the most zealously religious families always have at least one member of the family in prison? I think I recall someone mentioning my sister-in-law will be paroled soon after they hit me in the nose with a well-used King James version to get my attention. The ER doctor told me I shouldn't need a plastic surgeon unless I have trouble breathing once the swelling diminishes.____Martin Lawrence in a movie named The Bomb...hmmmm That IS wayyyyy too easy, isn't it?____A Bee That Arrived Alive On Firestone Tires
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Nov 26, 2001 12:04:43 PM CST
"ID" sounds really cool, but "Zits" ?!!?!?! Why !?!?!
by silenceoffreedom
I mean, the comic's, NOT THAT FUNNY !!! Good lord. And Sean William Scott as an urban kid who mentors a martial arts expert ?!?! Hey ! Let's just restart the Karate Kid, shall we ?! What a crock of shit.
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Ok, I'll go see it but only if it's at least twice as long as the Tarkovsky version... there's two hous and forty-five minutes I'm not getting back. And Elston, my Polish grandmother would spit in your eye for calling Lem a Russian - watch it, huh?
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don't you just feel like giving everyone your money?
Don't do it. Some people suck and shouldn't be in pictures. Don't give them money to act or direct or whatever in your movies.
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