Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Sorry for the incredibly inappropriate headline, but I was already toying with "Summit making a deal for Jodie Foster's BEAVER" as my non-funny headline and I figured that was just as insulting, so I went the extra giant leap over the line of decency.

In all seriousness, I'm absolutely dying to see what this movie turns out like. It sounds insane. Jodie Foster directs this story of a crazy bastard who walks around with a beaver hand-puppet that he speaks through... and said crazy bastard is played by Mel Gibson.

I've heard the script by Kyle Killen is outstanding, dark and hilarious. I'm just happy to see Gibson back on the screen again, and playing up some of his comedic chops to boot.

Variety has a story about Summit being close to locking up a deal to distribute the movie. Summit perplexes me a bit as a studio. They get some truly great little movies, but seem to have a really hard time selling them, like with BROTHERS BLOOM or even SEX DRIVE, a surprisingly funny teen comedy. I even heard BANDSLAM was a real movie and not the shitty feature version of a Nickelodeon kids show-looking movie they advertised.

I guess releasing these quirky gems is enough for me. As long as that Twilight money keeps rolling in and they keep spending it on movies like THE BEAVER I won't complain.

Thoughts?

-Quint
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