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MEN IN BLACK’s Barry Sonnenfeld To Return To Sci-Fi Comedy With THE HOW-TO GUIDE TO SAVING THE WORLD!!
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Barry Sonnenfeld, director of the “Men In Black” movies, will make a return to extraterrestrial comedy with “The How-To Guide for Saving the World,” about an unlikely hero who finds himself trying to employ the titular manual.
The script is by BenDavid Grabinski, who tells AICN exclusively he has heard of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," and downplays any similarities: "It's more like a romantic comedy that gets derailed by car chases, explosions, and an impending alien invasion. Tonally, it's a whole different animal."
Sonnenfeld’s last big-screen directorial effort was 2006’s Robin Williams vehicle “RV,” written by Geoff Rodkey (“Daddy Day Care,” “Daddy Day Camp,” “The Shaggy Dog”).
Sonnenfeld’s other diectorial credits include the two “Addams Family” movies, “Get Shorty,” “Wild Wild West” and “Big Trouble.”
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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But they fucked up the sequel.
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I hate to sound like a doofus but this sounds like the perfect role for Jack Black.
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Mike Myers was supposed to be doing the live action version of that book, which I still want to see...just to see robots running around and people freaking out.
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And the Hitchhiker's thing did cross my mind the moment I read the headline.
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oh yes.
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Please keep Will Smith out of it though.
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all his films should be sent to outta space to give ailens a heads-up of the worlds super-power
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He had a confidence in his early films that completely evaporated with the failure of THE WILD WILD WEST.
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He had a confidence in his early films that completely evaporated with the failure of THE WILD WILD WEST.
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He had a confidence in his early films that completely evaporated with the failure of THE WILD WILD WEST.
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He had a confidence in his early films that completely evaporated with the failure of THE WILD WILD WEST.
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But when your post-MIB highlight is as a poorly-disguised 'guest' on JACKASS, squeezing one of your blackheads, then you really need to take stock of your career.
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He's the kiss of career death. Phoebe Cates could've been huge. Now she's just a footnote in the anals of moviedom.
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Everything he's made besides Get Shorty and MiB has been utterly terrible. I didn't know he was behind Wild Wild West. Ouch. And RV? Doesn't look good. But he did direct the Pie-Lette for Pushing Daisies (unless I'm mistaken), which was amazing.
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Watch "Pie-lette". It's awesome.
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Could be good - I really liked "Men in Black".
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There's a video game movie that probably wouldn't suck (I hope).
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but Get Shorty remains one of my favorite movies of the 90's. And Addams Family was better than most want to admit (though by no means great). I think Sonnenfeld can make a good movie out of a good script. He just hasn't chosen to work with one in quite some time.
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he gets a lot of points for that.
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If any readers have ever seen
Barry on one of his numerous appearances on the David Letterman show, he's quite the raconteur and doesn't deny being both a complete hypochondriac and egomaniac. -
I feel sick to my stomack when I realize I can do a better job than any man in Hollywood except Chris Nolan and Charlie Kaufman.
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I was thinking today about Men In Black and wondering what the director was gonna do next (since his career has not exactly gone smoothly since then), here's hoping this is a comeback
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Dec 18, 2008 9:12:40 AM CST
"a romantic comedy that gets derailed by car chases, explosions,
by skimn
AKA over-the-top set pieces masquarading as comedy. I think his strongest work is Get Shorty, followed by Men In Black. And what was best in Men, was the byplay between Smith and Jones.
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I will never watch his movies again.
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Throw Mama From The Train, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Big, Misery,...some heavy hitters there.
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Elmore Leonard property about a wacky judge in Florida with Beau Bridges..oh yea, Maximum Bob.
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One of the most underrated comedies of the decade. Fucking love that movie.
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... despite his big disapointments and mediocre movies, he has three absolutely outstanding movies: Addams Family Values - one of the best dark comedies, imho - , Men in Black - an absolutely perfect thrillride - and specially his masterpiece, Get Shorty, featuring a John Travolta in state of grace that deserved to sweep all awards that year (he only won the Comedy/Musical Golden Globe, though).
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ben foster rules
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As an aside, I just wanted to write that "Galaxy Quest" is the best science-fiction comedy, ever. (Unless "Dr. Strangelove" counts as a science fiction comedy, in which case that would win.) But "Men in Black" was very good too.
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