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Diane Keaton And Jeff Goldblum Bask In Harrison Ford's MORNING GLORY!
Beaks here...
If there's one disappointing aspect of Harrison Ford's career, it's that he didn't do more straight-up comedies. Though Han Solo and Indiana Jones both had a rakish, comedic flair, it would've been nice to see him bantering with an in-her-prime Kathleen Turner or Diane Keaton in, say, a latter day take on THE FRONT PAGE.
Better late than never. We learned a few weeks ago that Harrison Ford was set to co-star in Roger Michell's MORNING GLORY, a workplace comedy about a harried morning news producer's efforts to force a detente between her show's feuding anchors. Rachel McAdams will play the producer, while Ford will bicker away as one of the anchors. Now, Variety is reporting that none other than Diane Keaton has signed on to play Ford's on- and off-air rival. Ford and Keaton as a couple of vain, pissed-off TV personalities? There's potential here - especially when you factor in a script from THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA's Aline Brosh McKenna (and let's pretend 27 DRESSES never happened). Throw in Jeff Goldblum as McAdams's boss, and this sounds kinda irresistible.
J.J. Abrams, who's on the verge of ascending to geek God status with STAR TREK, is producing MORNING GLORY. I'm hit or miss with J.J.'s stuff, but I really like what he's putting together here. Michell's an incredibly underrated director (and remarkably versatile, what with PERSUASION, NOTTING HILL and CHANGING LANES), and this cast will deliver all day long provided the script's worth a damn. The film begins shooting next month, which means Paramount is probably targeting a first-quarter '10 release. Looking forward to it.
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is old and dried up.
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i'm actually really sad about it. He used to be the coolest.
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I don't know anything about this production, but I want to see it. Now.
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...is one of those projects that could either be really goodorreally mediocre. Considering the offscreen talent (except for Abrams, who I guess wandered onto the wrong set, decided to play it cool and started ordering people around), I'm guessing the latter.
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...we start labeling Abrams a "God".
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thats what you kids call it nowadays?..it was called the "clap" back then..
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Yawn. Pass the geritol.
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is a hack.
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Unless we could trade Diane in for Michael, in which case more Goldblum, more Keaton... Oh and more McAdams
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And Harrison hasn't done enough comedies...? With the exception of WORKING GIRL name one since American Graffiti that's worked. Hollywood Homicide? Six Days, Seven Nights? That SABRINA remake? (Heroes with Henry Winkler???) Harrison, please, stay away from the comedies. Oh, and any more Indy sequels, too (at least, the ones with flying saucers.)
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McAdams and Goldblum as feuding anchors makes more sense? You know older guy who's been there and the pretty young eye candy the station just hired. I don't see that many old anchors nowadays. It's like one wrinkle and they're outta there. I think Kelsey Grammer had a show like this that I forgot to watch.
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these 2 cashed in their credibility YEARS ago. can we please leave Harrison and Diane on the cutting room floor and have a movie focusing on Goldblum and McAdams? Oh yea, didn't JJ Abrams write Forever Young? Thanks JJ. Dick.
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The man tried a cop buddy comedy with Ashton Kutcher and it looked like crap. He does better in dramas, and that's where I like him. Mysteries, action/adventure, and straight up drama.
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Apr 07, 2009 12:59:13 AM CDT
i saw the new star trek and it's better than empire strikes back
by iwasredempted
just kidding. i think harrison needs to transition into character actor parts. his most recent leading actor parts have been a bit flat. don't get me wrong he's my hero but i believe he would be great in the upcoming remake of true grit. they are saying it will be more concentrated on the girl so this will be perfect for him to do some character actor work. search your feelings you know this to be true.
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Apr 07, 2009 1:09:23 AM CDT
i saw the new star trek and its worse than critters 2 and 3
by haterofcrap
you heard it first here
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The guy is a one-trick pony. Every movie he's in is the same guy. He has no range.
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The guy is writing shit about Harrison Ford on the internet. He has no life.
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pick better scripts... or at least his representation does.
He passed on both Syriana and Traffic. Either of those films could have put him back on the map as one of Hollywood's most important leading men.
What happend to the Harison Ford that took risks doing films like Witness, Mosquito Coast, Frantic or even Blade Runner? Now we get the dreadful Hollywood Homicide at worst or the moderately enjoyable IJ4 at best.
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Someone review it!
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Actually worse than a plant, this report by Beaks sounds like something you would read at any of the mainstream entertainment sites.
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but it would be nice if he made good movies again. and for god's sake, Ford, recapture that humorous side. he is so dour in everything now.
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Han Solo and Indiana Jones rolled into one. That alone makes him a great actor.
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Apr 07, 2009 1:50:28 AM CDT
If there's one disappointing aspect to Harrison Ford's...
by cameron1975willi
...career, it's": Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Apr 07, 2009 1:51:24 AM CDT
It was a disappointing aspect of Spielberg's career too.
by cameron1975willi
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Apr 07, 2009 1:51:25 AM CDT
It was a disappointing aspect of Spielberg's career too.
by cameron1975willi
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Ford was so bored in the last Indy movie, you could actually see the phone receiver he was reading his lines into. Can't blame him though, Lucas is a New Age Anti-Christ.
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...Director. In this case Spielberg owed Lucas a favour and directed his crappy idea for a script. Spielberg has final say though, so ultimately it's his fault.
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...Hell, because of the Star Wars prequels, I'm just gonna go ahead and blame him for the global economic crisis too.
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i can't wait for more of that scriptwriters work. if anyone wants me i'll be over here sticking needles in my eyes...
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Fucking predictable.
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Please explain it to me?
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http://tinyurl.com/ddbrho totally fucked up...wein, still earning a living as a freelancer, despite creating characters like wolverine, which should have made the dude independently wealthy...there were things lost in this fire that cannot be reimbursed
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I don't think I've seen Goldblum in a movie since ... The Lost World? Couldn't name a Goldblum movie since Holy Man. Her's still alive. As for Ford - why has that man not done a movie he wasn't top billed in (with the possible exception of "crossing Over") since Apocalypse Now? That man has done nothing but safe and boring roles since Mosquito Coast. He works for the fat paycheck to pay for his planes and nothing else. Not a single appearance in a single ensemble piece ala Cruise in Magnolia, Willis in Pulp Fiction, Damon and Pitt in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, etc. A conceited, half-assed actor who has been living on a crooked smile and past glories for over two decades now. Why won't he just go away?
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Goldblum isn't in enough movies
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...Ford who comes straight from the cigar store Indian school of acting.
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SWITCHING CHANNELS from 1988 with Burt Reynolds and Chris Reeve...
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is funnier than this will ever be
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and GET OFF MY FRIDGE TOO!!!
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Fleh
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I came in here to say that!
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That's unfair. Been seeing it on cable, recently, and the film is maddeningly watchable and kind of funny.
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He was on the Conan O'Brian show. Jesus he was like a grumpy old man.
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The return of JJ and Ford working together!
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Someone mentioned Switching Channels earlier, which this sounds like. The best movie dealing with news anchors begins and ends with Broadcast News. William Hurt, Holly Hunter AND Albert Brooks all at their prime. Doesn't get better. OK, the high and mighty "faked emotion" twist that gives away Hurt's character is a little overblown, but the rest....
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How many times does Harrison have to do the finger point into the camera in every movie he does? Now that I've offended the fragile in the world with a dose of the truth, I'll also say Julia Roberts is a horrible actor and she is not the most beautiful person the world as the PR states. At most on a good day... just below average. I huess I'll get killed for saying that one.
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Dated the morning anchor, too. I was 24 and she was 29. We were in a small town so it was like I was dating a movie star. Things got even crazier when her ex, a city police detective, returned from Iraq. For a while I thought I’d get killed and know one would know the truth.
I had to leave town after we broke up because it sucked having to go in every day and see my ex on TV for two hours. I now know what it must have been like being in Fleetwood Mac. The two weeks before I left the station were my most creatively inspired hours of television I ever produced. The crowning achievement was playing the Bean Scene from "Blazing Saddles" in its entirety during the entertainment block while the ex and the co-anchor had to sit there uncomfortably. I miss those days. They might even be good enough for a memoir. -
Is Harrison Ford. He does whatever the hell he wants. I'll watch him read the frickin' phonebook. But that's just me. (Ok, but he has to wear the fedora... No, not júst the fedora, I am not thát guy)
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Another crappy chikflik steals it's title from the title of an Oasis song! Gallagher Brothers, feel free to go on a drunken, coke-fueled rampage!
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in the star wars movies, it's tougher to pull off the idealistic whimsy hamill does and make it likable while ford's laid back smartassness is dime a dozen.
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Apr 07, 2009 7:12:04 PM CDT
prossor - that is one of the most insane things i ever heard
by bmacsmith
Ford made Solo an unbelievably cool hero for all time and launched himself into a career as the biggest star on the planet for over a decade. Hamill was barely passable, and sometimes less (NOOOOOOO! THATS NOT TRUe!). and "idealistic whimsy" or whatever you call it was a dime a dozen in those days, too, while.... wait, why the fuck am i responding to this gibberish?
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diane was mybe good in the hands of woody....god, what was that horrible movie she was in with hollywood jack? that was the last i saw of that old gas bag.
i wish i were an actor. get all fat and just stand in front of a camera half smirking and saying retarded shit.
life couldnt be any easier for these nitwits!
god love em tho.
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@Lame - Had a little morning glory myself this *ahum* morning and didnt once think of oasis...
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If you like these kind of films check out The Paper, Micheal Keaton, Marisa Tomei (so foxy), Robert Duvall and more, directed by Ron Howard, but dont let that put you off, a well acted drama with some very comedic moments...
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time Keaton answers to McAdams instead of vice versa. I never care for Keaton, and her involvement in this will almost surely keep me away from this film.
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