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How's this for a title: I AM A GENIUS OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL AND I WANT TO BE YOUR CLASS PRESIDENT?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I love that title and apparently so does Warner Bros, who just picked up the rights to the eventual book (from a proposal), written by Daily Show staff writer Josh Lieb, who will also pen the screenplay. McG will produce.
It's about a chunky 13 year old who isn't exactly the most popular kid in the 7th grade. But in reality he's an evil super-genius and one of the richest people on the planet. His family is as unaware as everybody else as their son organizes Central American coups from his secret underground lair beneath the house.
Unfortunately, the dirty business requires he hides his identity... he also can't claim his evil empire legally until he turns 18.
He may be evil, but he's still a boy and wants to prove himself to his father, so he runs for class president, which he finds more difficult than most of his evil pastimes.
Sounds out there and twisted. I like it! You?
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Let's wait and see.
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Like an hilarious episode where hilariously Stewie runs for high school class president, with hilarious consequences!
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Artemis Who?
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but it could be cool. or numnuts or whatever.
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Oh I give up ;-p
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Yep.
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when doves cry
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That show NEEDS to come back...
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seriously.. possible grounds for plagiarism here!!!
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Nearly true story.
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Dexter's Lab on cartoon network??? Boy genius? Super rich (he has to be rich to be able to have all that stuff in his lab) and has a lab under his parent's house??? Hey, hey does the kid in the book have a sister who will totally foil his plot by going in his lab and wrecking shit? *cough*ripoff*cough*
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This is exactly the kind of derivative junk that Cartoon Network's writers would be likely to dream up. Pick elements of the junk that was barely funny ten years ago, give it a teen-angst spin and unleash it on the unsuspecting world.
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But with an evil boy genius instead of the Klan. And it's set in middle-school rather than the post-reconstruction South.
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yeah.
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in "Its Superman"
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*sigh*
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without the masterful input of Reese Witherspoon.
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Mar 25, 2008 9:20:17 AM CDT
Sounds like FUCKING AWESOME with a dash of violence
by stereotypical evil archer
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Mar 25, 2008 9:30:28 AM CDT
Sounds like Pinky, the Brain, Jimmy Neutron and Invader Zim all
by bean_
Also this could be fun.
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Mar 25, 2008 9:30:50 AM CDT
Sounds like Pinky, the Brain, Jimmy Neutron and Invader Zim all
by bean_
in Dexter's Lab.
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It sounds almost exactly like Barry Ween Boy Genius, one of the funniest comics to ever grace the shelves. Except he's not evil just pissed off and swears like a trucker. I wouldn't be surprised if the writer based this character on Barry.
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If it's ever released. It sounds like a direct to DVD joke to me.
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Sounds more like Von Fogg. In the end, everything rips off PS238.
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*Zing
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Or an album title. They do seem to like the really long titles for some reason. -
Are we that starved for good ideas?
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Look: this could work as a concept, but they have to decide which way they are going to go with it: either it's a goofy family-type comedy for kids (Sky High), or else it's a dark comedy not for kids--but if you try to split the middle you're gonna wind up with mediocre shite.
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I said yesterday in the talkback for the upcoming Kick Ass movie that pretty soon we'll be making movies off of other things that aren't even out yet in their original form yet. I really shouldn't be surprised, considering the idiocy of Hollywood, but I can't help but be exactly that at this moment. -
Ever.
Oh, God the cynicism. The burning poisonous cynicism ... It sticks in my craw ... it's killing me.
Help me, Obama Kenobi ... You're ... my ... only ... acckkkk
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if they want his evil genius stuff to happen, and not in an Austin Powers way either, his coups should make the stuff Pablo Escobar pulled look like a relaxing tea party for little girls. i'm talking indiscriminate civilian bombings, decapitations aplenty, lots of cool torture and it could be outrageous too like when Pesci in Casino popped that guy's eyeballs out "YOU made me pop ya lousy eyeball out for CHARLIE M?!" LOL! also lots of cool covert assassinations ala bourne flicks.
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Sounds promising, but throw in an annoying, lanky, sister and you have Dexter's lab. Not original, but still promises to be funny.
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