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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP

Published at:  Sep 13, 2004 9:01:32 PM CDT

Father Geek here with all the latest movie news from our man in Tinseltown Elston Gunn...


TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER


CASTING

* Nick Chinlund (TEARS OF THE SUN) joins Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta
Jones and Rufus Sewell in THE LEGEND OF ZORRO for director Martin Campbell.
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman scripted.

* Dakota Fanning will play Tom Cruise's daughter in Steven Spielberg's WAR
OF THE WORLDS.

* Nicky Hilton joins her sister, Paris, in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S PLEDGE THIS,
starring Simon Rex, Alexis Thorpe, Randy Spelling, Sarai Howard, Paula
Garces and Sarah Carter.

* German comedian Tom Gerhardt ("Hausmeister Krause") will play the title
role in SIEGFRIED, Constantin Film's spoof based on the ancient Nibelungen
saga. Siegfried is a fearless dragon slayer who wins the heart of Teutonic
beauty Kriemhild. Sven Unterwaldt is directing from a script by Gerhardt and
veteran writer-producer Herman Weigel.

* Jeremy Piven has joined Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey and Rene Russo in
the Morgan Creek production TWO FOR THE MONEY for director D.J. Caruso. Dan
Gilroy wrote the script about a star college football player who is at the
top of his sport until he blows out his knee during a game, forcing him to
choose a new profession. He winds up getting into the sports gambling
business only to be recruited by a guy who runs one of the best
sports-booking operations in the country.

* Eddie Murphy is starring in and likely producing an untitled comedy for
DreamWorks. Josh Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia have been hired to write the
pic. Murphy brought the idea, described as a BLAZING SADDLES-like Western
comedy, to the studio.

* Jenna Elfman and Samantha Mathis are starring in the romantic drama
TOUCHED for writer/director Timothy Scott Bogart. It's the story of a man
who wakes from a coma without his sense of touch and the nurse who helps
save him.

* KaDee Strickland, (ANACONDAS) and Ione Skye will star opposite Drew
Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon in FEVER PITCH, based on Nick Hornby's book, for
Fox 2000 and the Farrelly brothers.

* Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy will star in Wes Craven's DreamWorks
thriller RED EYE about a woman held captive by a stranger on an airliner.

* Dennis Hopper has signed on to star in indie feature MEM-O-RE for 3210
Films. Hopper will play a retired doctor and the colleague of a medical
researcher who taps into the genetically stored memories of a killer.
Bennett Davlin will direct pic, which is being produced by Jesse Newhouse
and Anthony Badalucco.

* Jeff Bridges, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher (FREDDY VS. JASON), Jennifer
Tilly and 9-year-old Jodelle Ferland will join the cast of Terry Gilliam's
TIDELAND, adapted from Mitch Cullin's Southern gothic novel about a girl who
escapes from the grim reality of her life into a world of fantasy, where she
is accompanied on her adventures by four disembodied doll heads.

* Melissa George ("Alias") will join Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen in
Miramax's DERAILED. Stuart Beattie penned the script, based on the novel of
the same name by James Siegel about a man who misses his morning train,
changing his life for the worse. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing, and
Mikael Hafstrom is directing the thriller.

* Angie Harmon is joining Tea Leoni and Jim Carrey in Columbia Pictures' FUN
WITH DICK AND JANE for director Dean Parisot.

* Elisabeth Shue will star in John Gatins' DREAMER for DreamWorks, Hyde Park
and Tollin/Robbins Prods. Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson
and Freddy Rodriguez also star. Shooting starts this month on the project.
The film will follow the story of a Kentucky horse trainer and his daughter,
who rescue a horse with a broken leg. The two then help nurse the animal
back to health and take it to race in the Breeders' Cup.

* Joan Plowright will star in Dan Ireland's low-budget pic MRS. PALFREY AT
THE CLAREMONT. Based on English author Elizabeth Taylor's 1971 novel, PALFRE
is the story of an elderly woman who checks herself into a retirement hotel
after her husband dies. When her family fails to visit, she befriends a
young writer who is willing to pose as her grandson. Ruth Sacks adapted the
novel. Anna Massey, Robert Lang and Zoe Tapper also star.

* John Leguizamo and Vanessa Bauche (AMORES PERROS) are attached to star in
the docudrama TLATELOLCO for Green Dog Films about the infamous 1968
massacre of students in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, on the eve of the Mexico
City Olympics. This project rivals Alfonso Cuaron's MEXICO '68.

* Vincent Gallo will star in Abel Ferrara's eclectic Bible-themed drama
MARY, playing two roles in the pic, one of them the star-director of a
controversial film on the life of Christ. The project is centered on the
character of a movie star who becomes obsessed with Mary Magdalene after
playing the follower of Christ and former prostitute. Sarah Polley is in
talks to play the female lead. Script is by Ferrara and Simone Lageoles (R
XMAS). Principal photography is scheduled to start in October in Rome,
before moving to Jerusalem and New York.

* Ron Livingston is in talks to star in RELATIVE STRANGERS for director Greg
Glienna. The story centers on an uptight professional who sets out to meet
his biological parents only to discover that they are from the wrong side of
the trailer park.

* Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Shawn Ashmore and Martin Donovan will join
Elisha Cuthbert in the indie dramatic thriller DOT for director Jamie Babbit
and Burnt Orange Prods. Shooting starts this month. It's about an orphaned
teenager sent to live with her godparents and their daughter. Unable to hear
or speak, Dot's alienated existence takes a disturbing turn when she
uncovers the secrets of her new family.

* Penelope Cruz has joined Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rhys Ifans,
Ian Holm, Ben Chaplin, Damian Lewis and Harriet Walters in CHROMOPHOBIA, a
psychological drama set in contemporary London, written and directed by
Martha Fienne (ONEGIN). Probing the dilemmas of modern London life, where
the old-fashioned virtues of honesty and loyalty are replaced by the new
morality of success and celebrity, it's the story of a bourgeois family
slowly coming apart at the seams.

* Angela Bassett and Keith David have been added to the cast of Regency
Enterprise's MR. AND MRS. SMITH near the end of production shooting. Bassett
is playing the boss of Brad Pitt's character while David is boss to Angelina
Jolie's character.

* Toni Collette will star in LIKE MINDS for writer/director Gregory Read
about a forensic psychologist appointed by police to determine whether
there's enough evidence to lay murder charges against a 16-year-old boy
accused of the shotgun death of a school mate.

* Heath Ledger will appear alongside Geoffrey Rush and rising star Abbie
Cornish (SOMERSAULT) in CANDY, the saga of two lovers who embark on a
journey of lust, addiction and self-destruction. Luke Davies adapted
screenplay from his bestselling novel. It will be helmed by stage director
Neil Armfield.

* Dave Chappelle is teaming up with director Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE
OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) to produce and star in an untitled music/comedy
feature to be directed by Gondry. Chapelle will emcee the project and do
standup and scripted comedy. Pic will have a documentary aspect to it with
some of the musical and comedy elements to be filmed live from the musical
and comedy event that will take place in New York. Pic will start shooting
later this month on location in Brooklyn.

* Robin Wright Penn has signed to star in Jeff Stanzler's untitled drama for
InDigEnt. Pic is about an Arab cab driver who picks up a troubled
professional woman with unexpected results. Sandra Oh co-stars in the pic,
which is set against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America.
Production is underway in New York.

* Johnny Knoxville will play Luke Duke opposite Seann William Scott's Bo
Duke in THE DUKES OF HAZZARD for director Jay Chandrasekhar (BROKEN LIZARD'S
CLUB DREAD) and Warner Bros./Village Roadshow. Jessica Simpson has screen
tested for the role of Daisy Duke, but no deal is in place yet. Adaptation
will be set in present day, but the General Lee is expected to be the same
iconic orange car that was seen in the series. The Broken Lizard Comedy
Troupe -- comprising Erik Stolhanske, Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter
and Kevin Heffernan -- wrote the pic.


DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS

* Kevin Smith is set to direct his own screenplay of THE PASSION OF THE
CLERKS, a sequel to 1994's CLERKS, for Miramax and his View Askew Films. The
sequel was written for the stars of the original film, Brian O'Halloran and
Jeff Anderson. Smith also will make an appearance with longtime sidekick
Jason Mewes. Shooting begins in January.

* Michael Cuesta (L.I.E.) will direct 12 AND HOLDING for Serenade Films.
Based on Anthony Cipriano's script, pic stars Linus Roache, Annabella
Sciorra, Jeremy RennerJeremy Renner, Jayne Atkinson, Tom McGowan and Marcia
DeBonis in the story of the accidental murder of a 12-year-old boy and the
effect his death has on his three best friends and their families in a
suburban town.

* Mark Waters will direct HENRY'S LIST OF WRONGS for New Line Cinema, while
Harley Peyton has been tapped to rewrite it. It tells the story of a shy boy
who gets dumped at the prom, with the incident shaping his life as he grows
up to be a ruthless corporate magnate. Years later, when he discovers the
girl who dumped him was terminally ill and wanted to spare his feelings, he
sets out to rectify his own malicious behavior toward others.

* Dean Georgaris will script the thriller AREA 51, based on the popular
arcade game, for Paramount Pictures and producer Christine Peters. The game
has players assume the role of a specialist handling hazardous materials
investigating a distress signal from Area 51, where a viral outbreak shuts
down the research facility.

* Columbia Pictures has picked up OUTSOURCED, a comedy pitch from Timothy
Dowling with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson attached to star. Eric Gold is
producing through his Mosaic Media Group. The story focuses on an American
factory that is shut down and moved to Mexico and two men from the
production line who venture south of the border to get their old jobs back.

* Alan Shapiro (THE CRUSH) is in talks to direct THE NEW GIRL from his own
script for Gold Circle Films. The project is described as a thriller about a
teenage girl who is transformed from an ugly duckling to a swan only to
encounter a nightmarish underside to her dream.

* Revolution Studios has picked up the pitch CLASS ACT, by Neal Shusterman
and Eric Elfman, with Underground Films in final talks to produce. Project
tells the true story of Tierney Cahill, a sixth-grade teacher from Reno, who
in an attempt to educate her students on the political process and inspire
her civics class, took on a challenge by her students and ran for Nevada's
2nd Congressional District seat in 2000. Cahill's students ended up running
her campaign.

* Roberto Benigni is directing LA TIGRE E LA NEVE (THE TIGER AND THE SNOW),
a comedy about a love-struck Italian poet in Iraq at the outset of last
year's American-led invasion. He stars with his wife, Nicoletta Braschi, and
Jean Reno.

* Ascendant Pictures has picked up the spec GROUNDED from writer Paul
Davidson. It's the story of an intergalactic dictator who goes undercover as
a high school science teacher after crash-landing in Nebraska.

* Gina Prince-Bythewood (LOVE & BASKETBALL) will rewrite and direct Fox
2000's I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE based on the Wally Lamb novel. The novel
spans several generations and focuses on identical twins, one a paranoid
schizophrenic and the other a normal house painter who is trying to get his
brother released from an asylum. The story follows their family history,
what led to the illness and the twins' turbulent relationship.

* Davis-Panzer Prods. and Imagi Intl. are developing a HIGHLANDER animated
feature for release in spring 2006. The project, which will be animated
through Madhouse of Japan (TOKYO GODFATHERS) will be written by David
Abramowitz.

* Brent Forrester is being tapped to adapt THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES for
director Mark Waters, Nickelodeon Movies, Atmosphere Entertainment MM and
the Gotham Group.

* Filmmaker Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED) is planning a feature film titled
BUD & BILL that will explore the unlikely friendship between the father of
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the father of one of the victims in
the April 1995 attack.

* Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana (BEST OF YOUTH) will return behind
camera to shoot the Italy-set coming-of-age drama QUANDO SEI NATO NON PUOI
PIU NASCONDERTI (ONCE YOU'RE BORN YOU JUST CAN'T HIDE). Alessio Boni and
Manuela Cescon will star. Pic is based on a book by writer and journalist
Maria Pace Ottieri, an expert on the plight of immigrants in Italy.

* Exodus Film Group is working on the CGI-animated comedy IGOR, written by
Chris McKenna, about a hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of
becoming a mad scientist and winning the first place prize at the annual
Evil Science Fair. Pic is intended as a franchise property for the company,
which expects to develop merchandising, videogame and TV spinoffs from the
feature. The CGI animation will be produced via Exodus' team, ElectroAge.
Some 50-75 animators are expected to work on the pic, which is in the
character development stage; basic animation is expected to start at the end
of this year.

* Lisa Loomer will rewrite the Halle Berry starrer NAPPILY EVER AFTER for
Universal and producer Marc Platt. Patricia Cardoso is set to direct. The
story, based on Trisha Thomas' novel, follows a black woman's journey to
self-discovery. On an impulse, the main character -- an advertising exec
tired of fussing with her long and processed straight hair -- shaves it off
and kicks out her commitment-phobic boyfriend. Discovering a newfound
freedom, she is unprepared for how friends and co-workers react to her new
hairdo and subsequent new life.

* Richard Linklater will direct THE BAD NEWS BEARS for Paramount. Billy Bob
Thornton is set to star in the remake of the 1976 Walter Matthau feature
about a group of Little League misfits who are transformed into a winning
team. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (BAD SANTA) wrote the new screenplay.

* Chris Koch is set to helm RIDE ALONG for New Line and MBST Entertainment.
It's an action comedy about a risk-averse teacher who plans to marry the
girl of his dreams but first has to accompany his overprotective future
brother-in-law, a tough cop, on a dangerous ride-along.

* Warner Bros. has picked up remake rights to HAWAII FIVE-O with George
Nolfi (OCEAN'S TWELVE) writing the script. George Litto, who was the agent
of series creator Leonard Freeman, will produce the film.

* Paramount snapped up a feature pitch by husband-wife team Lisa Addario and
Joey Syracuse and setting up the project at Vincent Newman Entertainment.
Story centers on two intensely competitive rivals on the women's beach
volleyball tour who must learn to combine their vastly different playing
styles to win back their honor.

* Robert and Michelle King have come onboard to adapt sci-fi thriller
COSMONAUT for Warner Bros. Based on the bestselling Australian novel by
Peter McAllister, the project tells the story of the first murder in space
aboard the Intl. Space Station.

* Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, daughter of filmmaker Martin, will direct the
screen adaptation of Sara Gran's SATURN'S RETURN TO NEW YORK for new indie
film co. Bold Films. Story is about a daughter estranged from her terminally
ill mother. Film will start casting next month and is slated for a late
fall/early winter start.

* Andrzej Bartkowiak (CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE, ROMEO MUST DIE) is replacing Enda
McCallion in the director's chair on the video game adaptation DOOM. Lorenzo
Di Bonaventura and John Wells are producing for Universal.

* Michael Caton-Jones is in negotiations to direct Sharon Stone in BASIC
INSTINCT 2, the sequel to the 1992 murder mysterym for MGM and C-2.

* Radar Pictures has optioned Esquire senior editor A.J. Jacobs' upcoming
book THE KNOW-IT-ALL: ONE MAN'S HUMBLE QUEST TO BECOME THE SMARTEST PERSON
IN THE WORLD, which Barry Sonnenfeld will direct and produce. Book is the
real story of Jacobs' decision to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in
an effort to deal with post-college intellectual decay, impending fatherhood
and the fear of never amounting to anything extraordinary. The movie version
will be a romantic comedy that centers on Jacobs' relationship with his
wife, which is tried by Jacobs' obsessive hobby.

* Jim Sheridan has signed on to direct IKIRU, the DreamWorks remake of the
1952 Akira Kurosawa film that is being developed as a potential starring
vehicle for Tom Hanks. The updated drama has been scripted by author Richard
Price. Sheridan will work with the writer to hone his script and will shoot
the project in New York.


MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS

* An injury Charlize Theron suffered on the set of Paramount Pictures/MTV
Films' AEON FLUX has forced production to shut down on the sci-fi action pic
for an indefinite number of weeks.

* Romano/Shane Prods. has optioned SOUL SURFER: A TRUE STORY OF FAITH,
FAMILY AND FIGHTING TO GET BACK ON THE BOARD, the upcoming memoir from
competitive teen surfer and shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton.

* Producers Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter have licensed Aftermath, a new
line of comicbooks from publisher Devil's Due. They're planning to adapt the
titles, set in a self-contained universe, for film, TV and vidgames.
Aftermath features several new characters created by veteran comicbook
talents, including BLADE OF KUMORI, DEFEX, BREAKDOWN and INFANTRY.

* Nordisk Film has picked up the rights to produce Danish fantasy writer
Lene Kaarberbol's kids bestseller THE SHAMER'S DAUGHTER.

* Sony Pictures has moved the release date for XXX: STATE OF THE UNION to
April 29 from May 13. On its new date, XXX goes up against New Line's THE
WEDDING CRASHERS and Warner Bros.' HOUSE OF WAX. Universal's Will Ferrell
soccer laffer KICKING AND SCREAMING is the only wide release skedded for the
second week of May. Sony has also moved its still untitled Bernie Mac/Ashton
Kutcher laffer out of the traditional summer corridor to March 18, a week
before Easter, off its original June 3 date. Also slated for March 18 is
CINDERELLA MAN, MISS CONGENIALITY 2, Disney's ICE PRINCESS and Fox
Searchlight's Woody Allen pic MELINDA AND MELINDA.


GUNN SHOTS

(NOT from the trades)

* Screenwriting Expo 3 is back at the Los Angeles Convention Center,
November 5-7, with 100 more events and speakers than last year (over 350
events total!). For more info, visit http://www.screenwritingexpo.com

* DreamWorks Animation credits mental ray (r) for helping it achieve the
extremely high visual target for its new computer animated comedy, "Shark
Tale", which premieres in the historic Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy on
September 10th, 2004. For more info, visit http://www.mentalimages.com

* Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS is filming in New York City from
mid-November to the end of the year.

* Fangoria's THE LAST HORROR MOVIE will screen in competition at the Malibu
Film Festival being held at the Monica 4 Plex (1332 2nd Street, Santa
Monica, CA). LAST HORROR will unspool on Sunday September 19th at 9 pm. Log
on to http://www.malibufilmfestival.com for more info. An east side
screening of LAST HORROR will take place at the SILVERLAKE FILM FESTIVAL
being held at the Arclight Cinemas (6360 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA). LAST
HORROR will unspool on Tuesday, September 28th at 5.30 pm. Log on to
http://www.silverlakefilmfestival.org for more info.



Until next week...

Elston Gunn

elstongunn@hotmail.com



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    Readers Talkback

  • Sep 13, 2004 9:16:15 PM CDT

    Johnny Knoxville as a Dukes boy?

    by terry_1978

    I don't know why I shouldn't have seen that a mile away, but I didn't. Damn it all.

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  • Sep 13, 2004 9:34:12 PM CDT

    Oh great, an adorable little blonde girl is going to play a part

    by timbenzedrine

    I know! She brefriends one of the Martians, and there's a very sad death scene when the Earth viruses kill him off. If only he could have returned to his spaceship, he could have prevented the whole invasion. How ironic! How totally unexpected of Steven Spielberg. Oh, I feel sick...

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  • Sep 13, 2004 10:53:29 PM CDT

    Christopher3's Weekly Weekly Recap Recap:

    by christopher3

    Six remakes. Six sequels. Eight book adaptations. One comic series adaptation. Two video games. Four biopics. Three TV series exhumations. Back from the dead: Jenna Elfman and Elizabeth Shue. Attention Dreamworks: you now have 9 1/2 months to complete "War of the Worlds" in time for July 4, 2005. Go!

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  • Sep 13, 2004 11:45:37 PM CDT

    He said the sheriff is a ni...

    by zacdilone

    Try as he might, Eddie Murphy will never approach the greatness that is "Blazing Saddles." Cleavon Little is truly missed.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Sep 14, 2004 12:31:20 AM CDT

    Jessica Simpson

    by lion fire

    Is NOT an actor and never in a million hours of training by top acting instructors will ever be an actor. Please god I am SO sick of her and her one hit wonder little sister. There should be laws against this kind of shit.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 12:47:40 AM CDT

    Dukes of Hazzard

    by kidcthulhu

    I knew Jay Chandrasekhar was directing,but I didn't know that Broken Lizard was writing this...Between that and Knoxville, I have hope for this movie. Now,listen up.DO NOT cast Jessica Simpson. Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad. Joe Don Baker for Uncle Jesse AND Boss Hog...It could be his triumphant return to the screen.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 12:52:51 AM CDT

    Damn,Damn,Damn!

    by kidcthulhu

    I Just read on Comingsoon.net that Simpson is confirmed and the script is being rewritten by one of the asshats that wrote Starsky & Hutch,so they allowed me about 4 minutes of hope for this movie before it got bashed to shit.Thanks,Unoriginal Aiming for the Lowest Common Denominator Filmmakers...for making me loathe you...again.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 12:54:33 AM CDT

    GROUNDED reminds me of a Japanese anime called THE ULTIMATE TEAC

    by frankdrebin

    About a highly-evolved and merciless cockroach who poses as a high school gym teacher. Turns out he's the perfect one to keep those monsterous teenagers in line.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 1:00:46 AM CDT

    If there are no snakes on the plane in RED EYE, what's the point

    by frankdrebin

    And now that there are armed pilots and undercover marshals on planes, a hostage situation should last about 10 seconds: "Alright, no sudden mov--*bang*bang*bang*bang*bang*thud."

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  • Sep 14, 2004 1:02:31 AM CDT

    Siegfried

    by mag7man

    I've often wondered why it was taking so long for someone to do a spoof of the Niebelungen saga.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 1:07:22 AM CDT

    'Bout fucking time we got a Zorro sequel.

    by osmosis jones

    By this time, we *should* have been looking forward to a *third* movie, instead of just the second. Any excuse to get Catherine Zeta-Jones back in those sexy period costumes is a good one. :o)

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  • The HG Wells book is public domain, so anybody can sell WOTW merchandise. But you'd have to license the OOTN name. (Like they changed Van Helsing's first name to something copyrightable--what was it?--Zippy? Lot of good it did them.)

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  • Sep 14, 2004 5:44:31 AM CDT

    no new ideas under the sun

    by marwood

    * Ron Livingston is in talks to star in RELATIVE STRANGERS for director Greg Glienna. The story centers on an uptight professional who sets out to meet his biological parents only to discover that they are from the wrong side of the trailer park.

    Didn't they already make this with Ben Stiller under the name Flirting With Disaster?

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  • Sep 14, 2004 8:34:06 AM CDT

    So Vincent Gallo thinks he's Jesus now?

    by spikes brain

    I've got 99 problems but a cross ain't one...

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  • Sep 14, 2004 11:20:47 AM CDT

    More crappy remakes

    by timbenzedrine

    I absolutely agree with New York Kid --Murphy trying to duplicate Blazing Saddles will be horrible. This just shows how creatively stifled and collectively braindead the suits in Hollywood are, They need to send their resident "funny black men" (Eddie, Will, and Martin, and I'm starting to get really sick of Chris and Bernie too) into early retirement and give someone like Chappelle a shot at creating something really offfensive and funny, and un-PC, the way the first film was in its time. But instead of parodying westerns, he ought to parody "Roots", like an expanded take on that one clip he did on his show: "Hey look, there's a boat full of white people, let's go over and find out what they want." A guy like Chappelle could do it , get away with it and be funny as hell.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 11:23:08 AM CDT

    Ralph Fiennes in a pretentious movie with Kristin Scott Thomas??

    by screamingpenis

    this will truly be out of character for him.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 11:30:13 AM CDT

    breaker one, breaker one/might be crazy/but I ain't dumb

    by durhay

    Starsky and Hutch has hit the screen, and the Dukes along with Hawaii Five-O are coming. How soon until Magnum, the A-Team, and Knight Rider? Clooney would make a good Magnum. Why is there a need to remake Ikiru? And where is the "right" side of a trailer park? Shouldn't it be the wrong side of the (railroad) tracks?

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  • Sep 14, 2004 12:07:37 PM CDT

    All things being equal...

    by docpazuzu

    ...I'd rather have Jessica Simpson in cut-off denim shorts and a tight top than a good actress in a FUCKING DUKES OF HAZZARD MOVIE. It's based on one of the worst TV series ever, sure to be utter ass, and you people are looking for good actors? Jesus, get your priorities straight.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 1:26:48 PM CDT

    Vincent Gallo doesn't think he's Jesus

    by mr brownstone

    he *knows* he is.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 2:19:26 PM CDT

    What's the buzz on Aeon Flux? It could be a big ole disaster if

    by lance rock

  • Sep 14, 2004 2:37:39 PM CDT

    CNN confirmed it.....

    by aphex twin

    Jessica Simpson IS Daisy Duke....God help us.
    http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/film.simpson.reut/index.html

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  • Sep 14, 2004 3:15:46 PM CDT

    Stunt Driver for DoHazzard

    by splissken

    Just hired: Tracey Gold

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  • Sep 14, 2004 3:36:51 PM CDT

    Although I wanna fuck Jessica in the brown bunny twice, I'd rath

    by tequilaworm

    Holy Shit! She's one hot, sexy white beeeatch...CHEERS Amigos!

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  • Sep 14, 2004 4:45:48 PM CDT

    Christopher3, you forgot...

    by hamo455

    ..17 films with Dakota Fanning. What do you mean there are only 3? And someone was bitching the other day cos Jude Law's been in more than two films this year...

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  • Sep 14, 2004 5:23:21 PM CDT

    4 disembodied dolls

    by thing-fish

    Say what you want, but I think that a little girls travelling accompanied by 4 disembodied doll heads (or decapitated bodies without heads? I didn't understand that little bit) sounds pretty promising for a Gilliam movie.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 8:48:58 PM CDT

    The sheriff is a washed-up comedian!

    by i hate movies

    "Excuse me while I whip this out..."

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  • Sep 14, 2004 9:24:50 PM CDT

    I'm sorry, are you all illiterate?

    by nushustu

    Fuck the Dukes of Hazzard. It will be just like Charlie's Angels et al. Has no one noticed that they're going to remake Ikiru? With fucking goddamned Tom fucking Hanks? I mean, seriously. Why? Why? Maybe H-wood should just take the top two or three films by every great director, and remake them with fucking Tom Hanks.

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  • Sep 14, 2004 10:59:06 PM CDT

    HOLLYWOOD IS SOO DESPERATE FOR SOMETHING ORIGINAL!

    by rant_man

    All I see is TV spinoff movies, remakes, and fucking sequels! Can't anybody freaking come up with something original? All I see from talkbackers is bitching about how this movie is gonna suck for "this reason", or "that reason". Well, if you don't like it,get off your asses and start writing! Somebody has to stir shit up! LET THE CREATIVE, ORIGINAL REVOLUTION BEGIN!

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  • Dreamworks animation sucks.

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  • Dreamworks animation sucks.

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  • Sharkslayer and Dreamworks animation suck.

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  • Sep 15, 2004 12:14:17 AM CDT

    Great story

    by dsb1369

    wonderous

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  • Sep 15, 2004 6:51:53 AM CDT

    Elisabeth Shue will star in John Gatins' DREAMER.....

    by drunken fugitive

    As the horse!

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  • Sep 15, 2004 2:04:31 PM CDT

    Hawaii Five - O

    by fat chooch

    Y'know, I'm not actually opposed to this. Though, for me, the only guy left alive capable of playing McGarrett is.... John Bunnell. Watch the "Police Videos" re-runs and tell me he's not channelling Jack Lord.

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