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Zooey Deschanel's indie rom-com is getting a GIGANTIC supporting cast!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Zooey Deschanel is a cutie, no doubt. She's got a romantic comedy in the works called GIGANTIC co-starring Paul Dano (THERE WILL BE BLOOD, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE). That's a good main cast, but now they've announced a pretty strong supporting one.
Ed Asner will play Dano's pot-head, gangsta rap loving dad, husband to the "long suffering" Jane Alexander. John Goodman will play Deschanel's domineering daddy.
The main plot surrounds Dano's character, Brian, a mattress salesman who's main goal in life is to adopt a Chinese baby... until he meets Deschanel's character, Happy. And the love story begins.
Sounds cute and I love that cast. Could be a fun one.
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...but this is going to need a real light touch in the writing and direction to not come across as too self-conscious.
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This is a great cast, can't wait to see this one.
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Ugghhhh. Let's hope they play against the quirk in this one.
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...smokin' a blunt, listening to some oldschool NWA, getting his hair braided in corn-rows...
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If Beatty was in this, I'd suspect it was a prequel.
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that make you look forward to seeing something. Plus Quint is right, Zooey is fantastically cute. Your never sure if you want to protect her or fuck the shit out of her to put it bluntly.
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...the idea of him as a gansta rap loving character just equated this to a badly writter SNL sketch to me.Also, how about telling us whether Zoey is starring or directing or what?!?! We know she's a cutie. HELLOOOOOO, journalistic integrity!?!?!
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1998 was a great year for film. Bulworth is actually relevant in this years election...and Zooey Deschanel is one of the most talented actors working today
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One man's opinion.
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She does the exact same routine in every role.
Plus she and her sister share body language.
I liked her in Weeds, but she seems to have mastered and applied the deer in the headlights frozen look to every role.
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If you think Zooey can't act watch 'The Assination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' she has a small role in the end, she's amazing.
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Wow,that small role offset her STARRING role in Tin Man. Or Failure to Launch.
She has one mode and that is it.
And as I said the sisters have the same body language. Unlike say the Tilley sisters.
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I reckon shes a great actress-shes just really underused....I mean shes fantastic in Almost Famous, but only appears in the bookends, and again, the Jesse James flick criminally leaves her to the last fifteen minutes....and she was a major highlight of the Good Girl, but still only round for a second....unfortunatly the other things that use her more arent so great-ala Hitch-hikers Guide and whatnot. But when she shines, she can burn out yer eyeballs man-hopefully she'll get a good big meaty role to sink her teeth to in a worthwhile film....alas a rom com doesnt sound like thats the right path...but then again Paul Dano has a nose for quality
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this i gotta see.
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Those aging effects in There Will Be Blood were amazing. I mean, the way they got him to wear a blazer. That easily added 15 years instantly. No teenager can put on a blazer.
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but she was nowhere near the worst thing in it.
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Those eyes...
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and it would suck a second time.I hope they don't make too big a deal of that part, because with a cast like that I have high hopes.
I always liked Ed Asner, but his stint on The Boondocks sealed the deal.
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Sounds like Bulworthcrappy.. I think Dano should be typecast as Eli. In every movie he's in ever again there should at least be someone saying "Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth." and bully him around a bit.
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but can't carry in a major role.
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Just wondering.
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That doesn't rely on crutches like a pot-smoking gangsta rap loving dad or a pregnant teen who says "honest-to-blog" when she's talking into her hamburger phone? I don't know, maybe have some characters and situations I can actually relate to? Is that too much to ask?
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I don't know, sounds like it's going to be unbearably quirky to me.
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... they'll cluelessly use that Pixies song of the same title as the theme music?
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Zoooey Doucheanel is so untalented. She clearly thinks she is the cat's ass and is more like the stuff that comes out. Get her balls out of your mouth.
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Seriously, all you have to do to write one is put random, stupid elements together and you have an indie character. He sells mattresses and wants to adopt a chinese baby. It's an old guy, but get this, he loves gangsta rap. My movie is going to be about a guy that inists on wearing the same clothes every day and only speaks Espernato. But then he falls in love and his whole world goes topzy turvy! And get this, the woman isn't a woman at all, but a blow up doll! Oh wait that's been done too. Indie writers can go fuck themselves.
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There was once a day where a geek shelter like AICN would never use such a horrid, industry-pandering label as "rom-com". Fuck off with that already. You're not Variety, and I certainly hope you don't want to be Variety.
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Honestly, Caplan is a far better actress with a similar look (a little cuter imho). Zooey always seems like she's about to pass out.
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...Sounds really cute and twee and quirky and indie. Maybe a bit too much.
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bu I'll probably watch it anyway. Zooey Deschanel.
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I want to have intercourse with Zooey.
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are cuter than Zooey Deschanel. So obviously this is some kind of fantasy picture.
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see All the Real Girls, for an absolutely brilliant performance. She was pretty great on Weeds, too. I think with the right material she does well. But Tin Man was just the wrong fit.
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i hope she sings in this one.
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Yes, what he said. All the Real Girls still stands as one of the best stories of modern love I've ever seen put to the screen.
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...made me gooey in Elf. Not the bad gooey. The good gooey. Like true love gooey. OK, that's it, gotta find a word to replace gooey now.
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Isn't she the same loser who couldn't act her way out of a piss-wet paperbag in SCIFI's Oz abortion?
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I was hoping from the headline that they meant Kim Deal would be in a movie with Zooey. Oh well.
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very heavily medicated. She's a natural.
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Or the fact that she looks and sounds vaguely stoned, but not obnoxiously so. That's what makes her sexy in my book. And by "her," I mean, of course, John Goodman. "Do you see what happens, Zooey? Do you see what happens, Zooey? Do you see what happens, Zooey, when you f--- a stranger in the a--?"
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