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John Cusack And Rob Corddry Board The HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!

Published at:  Feb 23, 2009 8:44:20 PM CST

Beaks here...



I never thought I'd be looking forward to HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (a project that has been kicking around Hollywood for longer than I care to remember), but now that John Cusack and Rob Corddry are attached... well, I'm at least semi-intrigued.

Josh Heald's screenplay is about a trio of best friends who attempt to assuage the misery of their adult lives by, um, traveling back in time using a hot tub. That's the pitch, folks. Sounds nightmarishly thin, but there must be something to it if Cusack and Corddry are signed. Even more promising, The Hollywood Reporter informs us that Craig Robinson and Clark Duke are in talks to co-star.

Cusack and Grace Loh will produce along with Matt Moore, who's been with the project from the very beginning. Steve Pink (director of ACCEPTED, co-writer of GROSSE POINTE BLANK and HIGH FIDELITY) has evidently taken over the reins from the previously announced Sean Anders and John Morris (the very talented duo who gave us last year's underappreciated SEX DRIVE).



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  • Feb 23, 2009 8:47:09 PM CST

    Billy and Mandy?

    by thedudeinla

    Didn't The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy already do this?

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  • Feb 23, 2009 8:48:15 PM CST

    is it a sequel

    by flowcytometer

    to Phone Booth Time Machine?

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:03:51 PM CST

    Who are the ad wizards...

    by wampa 1

    ...that came up with this one?

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:13:56 PM CST

    "Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a ho

    by henrydalton

    "The way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a bathtub, why not do it with some hot bikini action?"

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:14:33 PM CST

    "...out of a hot tub?"

    by henrydalton

    Ahh, you get the idea.

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:16:37 PM CST

    Jebus, Rob Corddry is annoying.

    by pollaxt

    Let he still soldiers on...

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:22:26 PM CST

    no subject

    by dejectedrobot

    Live Action Clocksuckers?

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:25:40 PM CST

    Yeah!

    by fiester

    Wait...what?

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:25:44 PM CST

    ClockSuckers

    by homer_simpson

    http://theclocksuckers.com/

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:44:46 PM CST

    Sex Drive was way better than it should have been.

    by kid idioteque

    The last 20 minutes are a level of insanity I've rarely seen on film. Marsden is great, as are the 3 leads. I almost liked it more than Superbad. Almost.

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:44:57 PM CST

    Sounds 80's ish

    by charlie_allnut

    If its a lightweight semi retarded hard R hard partying comedy in the vein of most 80's comedies...I might watch it on DVD.

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  • Feb 23, 2009 9:45:42 PM CST

    anyone involved in Grosse Pointe Blank

    by badmrwonka

    gets a free pass for life from me. I'm in the theater for anything they do.

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  • Feb 23, 2009 10:06:41 PM CST

    Does anyone else see..

    by jerry horror

    The potential of a Time Traveling Hot Tub???!!! This could be the greatest Pornography franchise we have held our collective breath for.
    Wanna bang Bettie Page in her prime? How about Betsy Ross? How about hairy cave women?
    No, but, really I wish I wasn't beaten to the punch on this one. Time traveling, horny sleazebags with a hot tub at their disposal.

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  • Feb 23, 2009 10:17:51 PM CST

    I'm not watching unless Nate Corddry is also in it.

    by snapt

    TOM JETER 4EVER

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  • Feb 23, 2009 10:50:35 PM CST

    thanks allot Homer_Simpson

    by the amazing g

    now I'm gonna ear surgery and a new pair of headphones

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  • Feb 23, 2009 10:50:49 PM CST

    *need

    by the amazing g

  • Feb 23, 2009 10:52:46 PM CST

    I wish I could go back in time and...

    by the amazing g

    prevent me from visiting that damn website

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  • Feb 23, 2009 11:13:05 PM CST

    JAMES BROWN'S TIME-TRAVELLING HOT TUB PARTY!

    by nasty in the pasty

    Should I get in the hot tub? / Will it make me sweat? / Should I get in the hot tub? / Will it make me wet? / Well-well-well...

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  • Feb 23, 2009 11:31:52 PM CST

    I thought this was going to be about a Hollywood remake of Time

    by jazzdownunder

    ... which also features a time travelling hot tub! Well, kinda.

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  • Feb 23, 2009 11:32:40 PM CST

    (.. remake of Time Crimes... )

    by jazzdownunder

    Hint: if there's a max length for field, set the goddam maximum length in the edit box!

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  • Feb 23, 2009 11:33:30 PM CST

    is this a sequel to...

    by sharpie

    that one episode of harvey birdman? HA HA, plagiarism!

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  • Feb 23, 2009 11:38:42 PM CST

    Are you sure, BadMrWonka?

    by greyspecter

    Cusak was involved in GPB, and he did Must Love Dogs. Joan Cusak was in GPB, and she's done some really bad stuff. Minnie Driver was in GPB, and she's...well, it's quicker to point to movies that weren't awful: Good Will Hunting,... that's all I got

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  • Feb 24, 2009 12:09:21 AM CST

    NBT

    by series7

    Was the bomb. Love that movie.

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  • Feb 24, 2009 12:16:45 AM CST

    This movie sounds lame

    by series7

    Speaking of unseen fake documentaries. Blackballed with Rob Daily Show is probably the only funny movie he's been associated with and will ever be in. Plus Cusack is done, stick a fork in him. WAIT WAIT WAIT, I take that back, he does have 2012 coming up. Hopefully he's got one left in him.

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  • Feb 24, 2009 12:30:59 AM CST

    THIS JUST IN: Mickey Rourke signed to HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

    by mike_d

  • Feb 24, 2009 3:42:42 AM CST

    Sex Drive was fucking awful

    by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for

    Zero laughs. Plus it's disgustingly smug. The individuals responsible are obviously deluded enough to think that they're a laugh riot. Avoid at all costs.

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  • And so it goes.

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  • Feb 24, 2009 5:17:29 AM CST

    Too bad it's not...

    by kid z

    ..Calvin & Hobbes and their Cardboard Box Time Machine.

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  • Feb 24, 2009 6:15:55 AM CST

    one way to make me maybe watch it

    by potatino

    make it 3D with ladies in bikinis or out of bikinis. 3d boob popin' action.. that I would watch... just a suggestion...

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  • Feb 24, 2009 6:40:22 AM CST

    And Emily Blunt will not be in this film, either.

    by tonagan

  • Feb 24, 2009 9:03:29 AM CST

    If anyone wants to go back in time, it's Cusack.

    by bc1970

    Maybe he'll wear a Fishbone shirt and a long black coat. Maybe he'll do interviews for it that make Joaquin look like Robin Williams on crack. I'm not saying John's maudlin, but goth kids tell him to perk up.

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  • Feb 24, 2009 11:58:59 AM CST

    ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE GIGAWATS??!?!

    by arcadian del sol

    dude that will make some SERIOUS bubbles!

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  • Feb 24, 2009 12:00:38 PM CST

    Christian Bale apologizes for bad time machine design

    by arcadian del sol

    He said he was working on a time machine while his house was being remodeled, and the General Contractor (GC) somehow got page 3 of the respective plans mixed up.
    "I've never had a GC behave like this," Bale said.

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  • Feb 24, 2009 12:36:38 PM CST

    This has the distinct sound of a '70s drive in sex romp.

    by skimn

    Like The Van, H.O.T.S, and the like...

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  • Feb 24, 2009 12:54:34 PM CST

    I'm waiting for the Frozen Donkey Wheel

    by cheif brody

    Time Machine movie! I wanna go see Geronimo Jackson play live!

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  • Feb 24, 2009 2:14:39 PM CST

    Hot Tub Time Machine II: Chlorination Salvation

    by mel garga

    BTW, does anyone remember the 80's-era movie Timerider about a dirt biker who goes back in time to the old west to defend a small town against some greedy bandits? Gonna go back in time!!

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  • Feb 24, 2009 2:21:36 PM CST

    Maybe Arnold will be in this and Maybe he wont

    by somashine

  • Feb 24, 2009 3:27:17 PM CST

    James Blunt will NOT be Black Widow in this movie

    by arcadian del sol

  • Feb 24, 2009 3:56:25 PM CST

    Sharpie: did you get that thing I sentya?

    by wookie1972

    I agree... So is it going to be Cusack as Birdman and Corddry as Potatmus? That's actually not bad casting. Maybe James Franco as Peanut?

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  • You know, the one where Steven Colbert's Phill goes and tries to start a hunting park in pre-history with Chaney? While the hippo was mistaken by a god by the cavemen because he was wearing a pink terry cloth robe.
    And yes, this was a real show, and it did happen.

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  • Feb 25, 2009 12:05:39 AM CST

    Sounds Like...

    by tron

    a corny reoccurring SNL skit

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