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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Hey folks, Harry here to present, once again, another great job by Elston Gunn. There's not a whole terrible lot of superduper exciting stuff from the trades... The Tom WIlkinson casting in the PATRIOT was broke here and at Coming Attractions weeks ago... but hey... They are breaking THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE! Well... on to Elston and the wonderful world of movie news...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Barry Pepper (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN) will play Matty, the lead in New Line's
gangster pic KNOCKAROUND GUYS. Seth Green joins and Vin Diesel is in talks
to star in the film which is scheduled to start shooting in September.
* Tom Wilkinson will play British Gen. Cornwallis in THE PATRIOT for
Columbia Pictures and director Roland Emmerich. Shooting begins Sept. 7 in
South Carolina.
* Sandra Bullock will produce and possibly star in WB's THE LIST by the
writers of RUNAWAY BRIDE about a guy who gives his girlfriend a list of
things she must do before he'll agree to marry her.
* Andre Brougher and Lou Diamond Phillips are set to star in A BETTER WAY TO
DIE for writer/director Scott Wiper. Shooting begins this fall in the
Midwest on the pic about an ex-cop who is in the middle of a struggle
between the FBI and the Chicago underworld who are searching for a missing
agent. The story is described as a "tale of redemption in the spirit of a
Sergio Leone movie."
* David Paymer and Casper Van Dien will star in the indie road comedy
PARTNERS for director Joey Travolta about a drifter and a straight-laced guy
who are brought together by a briefcase containing an important computer
disk. Vanessa Angel, Jenifer Lewis, Seiko Matsuda, Yuji Okumoto and Donna
Pescow star as well.
* Cheri Oteri ("SNL") joins Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen in Valerie
Breiman's LOVE AND SEX.
* Dermot Mulroney joins TRIXIE for director Alan Rudolph. Nick Nolte and
Emily Watson star.
* Charlie Kinn (BASEKETBALL) joins IN CROWD.
* James Remar (DRUGSTORE COWBOY) joins Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer
in WHAT LIES BENEATH for Robert Zemeckis.
HARRY NOTE: James Remar is cool!
* Kimberly Davies joins PSYCHO BEACH PARTY.
* Desmond Harrington (upcoming BOILER ROOM and JOAN OF ARC) has been cast in
both MY FIRST MISTER and the indie flick DROP BACK TEN.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Alphaville and MTV Films has picked up an untitled pitch from writer Danny
Fischer about a young man said to be one of the first white men to join an
all-black fraternity at the University of Mississippi. The comedy was
pitched to Leonardo DiCaprio and Jason Biggs (AMERICAN PIE) who may be
interested.
* Andres Heinz has written the psychological thriller THE UNDERSTUDY, picked
up by Phoenix Pictures, about an understudy on Broadway who finally gets a
lead role, but may be undermined by her own understudy.
* Independent Pictures grabbed Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy's spec THE
ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON (aka KILLING DICK). Alexander Payne
(ELECTION) will produce.
* Montel Williams will direct his wife Grace Morley's (who co-wrote with Amy
Acton) LITTLE PIECES. Morley will star with Eva LaRue, Jon Seda and Daniel
Quinn in the pic about three woman who question their life decisions and
head on an adventure to L.A.
* Robert Gordon (LOST WORLD, GALAXY QUEST) has been hired by Sony/Columbia
to pen a sequel to MEN IN BLACK though Will Smith will be busy with a
Muhammad Ali biopic (with MIB dir. Sonnenfeld) and I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK
AND LARRY with Nicolas Cage; Tommy Lee Jones is set to join Clint Eastwood
in SPACE COWBOYS and direct his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD
MERIDIAN.
* Disney bought LONE MAN ON CAMPUS by Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder based
on a P.O.V. magazine article about the first male student ina graduate
writing program attended by 700 women.
* Porch Light Pictures picked up ROCKET by Susan Armenti and Leslie Smith
about a 12-year old girl who befriends a farmer and his horse who face the
possibility of losing the farm.
* Music video director Paul Hunter will direct the comedy ATOMIC DOG for
Disney aobut a wise-cracking guy who is conned into chasing the galaxy's
most dangerous villain through time and space. David Goyer (BLADE) wrote
the script.
* David Ayer has written TRAINING DAY for WB and director Davis Guggenheim
(upcoming GOSSIP) about a young police officer on his first day with the
LAPD and his partner/mentor who turns out to be a corrupt cop.
* Director Nora Ephron is attached to remake the 1945 British comedy
VACATION FROM MARRIAGE about a couple who take a year off from marriage and
become different people. WB and Bel Air Entertainment are producing the
Leslie Dixon (MRS. DOUBTFIRE) script. Ephron will next direct the
comedy/drama NUMBERS for Paramount about a TV weatherman who gets some
friends together for a lottery scam and end up winning millions. Shooting
begins in October with John Travolta in talks to star.
* Disney has picked up the comedy THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE by Cinco
Paul and Ken Daurio about a bubble-bound guy and his attempts to fall in
love. Paul and Daurio have also set tp SPECIAL at MGM about a guy who fakes
a disability to gain sympathy from his fiancee's son.
* Ernest Dickerson will direct BONES with Snoop Dogg attached to the New
Line film about a ghost who is awakened 20 years after his murder to get
revenge on his killers.
* Suzanne Myers (ALCHEMY) will direct an adaptation of Dawn Powell's 1942
novel A TIME TO BE BORN about a woman who dumps her lover to seek fame and
fortune with a wealthy newspaper publisher, but her plans are foiled by an
unsuspected person.
* Tom Shadyac and his Shady Acres prods. will work with Ocean Pictures on
20th Century Fox's SLOW MAN to be directed by Shadyac. The story focuses on
a man who ages 100 times slower than everyone else--he appears in his 30s,
but has been there since the Civil War. His body functions are also 100
times slower than a normal human's.
* Director Marc Forster is digitally shooting EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER about
a suburban couple unable to put their life together after the tragic death
of their baby.
* John Schlesinger (MIDNIGHT COWBOY) will direct the gay comedy TWO
GENTLEMEN SHARING about a theatrical producer and his young boyfriend
bringing culture shock to a small English village.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Division 1 Entertainment picked up the rights to Jay Neugeboren's
IMAGINING ROBERT about his family's battle with one son's mental illness.
Robert DeFranco will produce.
* Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks may be interested in producing HARDBALL by
John Gatins about an inner-city baseball league in Chicago's gang-filled
Cabrini-Green housing project. The offer is out to Jim Carrey to star.
* Warner Bros. is in talks to make a second and third installment of THE
MATRIX possibly shooting back-to-back next year. Keanu Reeves will return
as will the writing/directing team the Wachowski brothers. No script is in
place yet.
* Paramount Pictures has changed the release date of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2
starring Tom Cruise from Christmas to May 24, 2000. The DreamWorks/20th
Century Fox pic MINORITY REPORT (starring Cruise and to be directed by
Steven Spielberg) is scheduled for release June 30, 2000.
* Veteran director John Frankenheimer has a four picture deal with both
Miramax and Dimension Films. Dimension's REINDEER GAMES (not included in
the deal) will be in theaters this Christmas.
* Trigger Street picked up the rights to Jimmy Vines' NINTH LIFE about a
single father who tries to hold up his neighborhood bodega, but after things
go wrong he hijacks a taxi cab full of money and heads to Atlantic City with
his anarchis punk rock buddy.
* Nicolas Cage has stopped talks to star in CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANODLIN for
director Roger Michell (NOTTING HILL) and Working Title Prods/Universal.
* Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Woody Allen's latest (and 29th)
film SWEET AND LOWDOWN, the 1930s-set jazz comedy starring Sean Penn, Uma
Thurman and Samantha Morton.
* Buena Vista bought the pitch AT 17 by Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay. It's a
tragic love story set in L.A. focusing on the relationship of a girl from
the Westside and a Latino from East L.A.
* Jan De Bont and his Blue Tulip Prods. will work with United Artists on THE
PAPERBOY with Pedro Almodovar directing the adaptation of the Pete Dexter
novel.
It seems the MIB2 development and the MI2 new date were the biggest
news items of the week in movieland (JFK Jr. not withstanding--a sad tragedy
indeed). Not a lot of casting compared to weeks past (Tom Wilkinson playing
General Cornwallis in THE PATRIOT sounds cool), but a lot of directors and
writers are busy...especially Nora Ephron. There are a lot of titles and
ideas that sound very interesting. I'm intrigued by NUMBERS, SLOW MAN, A
TIME TO BE BORN, ATOMIC DOG, HARDBALL and THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON
just to name a few. How about you?
Have a good one.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
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Jul 23, 1999 1:23:06 AM CDT
Posting space reserved for some moron to write "I'm First!"
by toby o. notobe
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Anypne read the story on him in the latest Premiere, what a complete waste of skin this man is!
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I'm really concerned with WHAT LIES BENEATH, based on the fact that the first draft, nay, the entire concept seemed beneath Zemeckis & Co. Moriarty wrote up a review some months ago, and I concurred with nearly every point he made about Clark Gregg's rote and largely unsuspensful script. I'm sure re-writes have been underway for some time, but they're going to have to do a major overhaul on this one. Does anybody know who might be involved at the time being? Don't go to the IMDB for help, because they still list the plot as having something to do with Harrison Ford's basement (i.e. his character's basement, not the actor's; although, that might be interesting, too. Indiana Jones & The Sump Pump Of Doom.) I'm just hoping that this project can be rescued, and that it can somehow erase the disappointment of Zemeckis not making BAD TROUT, which would've been worth every million spent on it.
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*lol*
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(1) Hardball, a story about Cabrini Green youths playing baseball, starring . . . Jim Carrey??? What is this, another pic about black folks that has to star a white guy in order to maintain its "box-office-ability"? I guess they figure that Carrey can hang with the homeys after "In Living Color." I smell condescension coming. (2) Paramount must be trying to fuck over Dreamworks with its MI2 date. Why doesn't Cruise have something in his contract about that?
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Say 10 Hail Marys and 5 Our Fathers and all is forgiven. Now go and sin no more...
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Check out vfxpro for a tidbit on whos handling the fx for What Lies Beneath. Interesting read if you care about that end of production.
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From what I know, they only have a few small things to fix, not so much that they have to delay it all the way to next summer from crying out loud! That sucks Paramount, it IS Mission Impossible 2, it's not like it'll bomb if you release it in February or March. Give us some time in between Cruise movies, please! Or was the guy who said Paramount wants to screw Dreamworks correct? Hmmm, they did collaborate for Deep Impact.
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I think the moving of MI2's release to May is complete bunk. Are they (Paramount) worried about going up against The Green Mile? I think MI2 and the Tom Hanks/ Stephen King pic are going after two COMPLETELY different audiences. I really hope the move is not just to screw with dreamworks. That would be low.
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Boop.
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