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George Clooney Takes On FARRAGUT NORTH!!
Merrick here...
George Clooney's been looking to adapt Beau Willimon's play FARRAGUT NORTH to the big screen for some time now - looks like he's now getting closer to making that happen.
Vulture describes the off-Broadway production thusly:
it follows the exploits of a twentysomething presidential campaign spinmeister/wunderkind named Stephen Myers, and the dirty pool he plays to get his candidate the nomination against a rival senator.
While actors like Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were once involved with this Clooney-directed moviefication, a variety of factors (including timing) have conspired against their participation. The cast...a rather amazing one, potentially...now looks to consist of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, and possibly Chris Pine - who played Stephen Myers (the candidate mentioned above).
Check out that Vulture article for quite a few more details. A paperback of Willimon's progenitor play can be found HERE
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I'm interested
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Sep 01, 2010 12:50:58 PM CDT
DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE STARSHIP FARRAGUT
by bringingsexyback
in JJ Trek?
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All the actors are citizens.
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Hoffman is one of the greatest actors working today. I even loved his wacko villian in MI3 (altho i think i am completly alone on this one). I cant wait to see how this turns out. Crosses fingers.
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Disclaimer, I'm in it, but the DC area premier of the play begins it's run on September 17th. I've skimmed a draft of the screenplay and there are some modifications, but the essential plot is retained.
http://tinyurl.com/35c926h
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Anyone know anything about it? Obviously they took him out of the 1930's judging by the twin Berettas in the ads. Direct-to-dvd shit or a pleasant suprise? Anyone?
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As yet looks like my role (Benjamin Fowles, Chris Pine's ambitious deputy press secretary) isn't cast. It's a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kinda role.
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Lets turn it into a political LOST thread and make it even MORE annoying.
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to the real Farragut North, this should feature plenty of shots of Clooney trudging up and down broken escalators.
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He was great in (500) Days of Summer. Have you seen it?
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Direct-to-dvd shit.
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Not yet, it's been on my stack for a while now, sitting on top of the TV downstairs. And if he IS cast, AICN, I want credit on the news page for calling it ;-)
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LOL. Ain't it the truth. God Metro sucks balls.
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Make it even more realistic by having a bum pissing in the corner of an escalator alcove.
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Sep 01, 2010 1:40:50 PM CDT
WELL THEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE AWAITS YOU ON THAT STACK
by bringingsexyback
I envy you on your journey.
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Chris Pine played the role of Stephen Myers on stage, but he's the spinmeister, not the candidate (who was never shown in the stage version).
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I like it. Add in some fat loud tourists embarrassing themselves and generally getting in the way and voila - the Farragut North experience perfectly captured onscreen.
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I thought it was funny. Nevermind.
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Starring the asshole who has just taken hostages there this afternoon. Does this have to do with Palin's show? What gives?
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...huh?...what?...zzzzzzzzzzz
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Sep 01, 2010 2:13:47 PM CDT
Discovery gunman Manifesto...He has some good points but he is N
by hobocode
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people's brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You're the media, you can reach enough people. It's your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human's lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It's like a couple are having 30 babies even though it's just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it's morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
These are the demands and sayings of Lee. -
Bring it on
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Hard to argue with that manifesto.
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Please commence helping the population and jump off a bridge.
Fucking whacko needs to be Terminated! -
Shocker. No offense but what is the deal with the crazy Asians? high strung bunch of mofo's. I didn't get a pefect A+ in super-calc. Kill everyone!!!!!!
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Those hostages are as good as dead unless they do.
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But then I thought, black guys don't take hostages they just shoot everybody. So it stood to reason that it would be a crazy Asian because white guys named Lee are fewer and farther in between.
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is shameful and dishonorable to the family. I get it. But no need to kill.
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If any channel promotes over-population it's them. Seriously does any family *need* 24 children?
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Leave it to Kate Gosselin to send another dude over the edge.
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You know, something set in space or maybe something to do with horror, fantasy or science fiction? Oh. It's going to be another movie where George Clooney wears a nice suit and runs a lot that old people watch at matinees.
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Some might confuse me with this guy. I can assure you I am not talkbacking from the Discovery building.
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Kate drives Asian guys up the wall.
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For people who think actual philosophy is too hard.
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Otherwise why bother?
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by calling it Farragut Norf.
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You still here? When are you showing up to take my home, you racist punk?
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That's the one that always crashes. I like the Columbia Heights area tho. Oh wait, that's the Green line. Yeah fuck the Red line.
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Can he please continue his way through the cable channels? Can he get Cartoon Network to bring back Toonami?
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Blows cock.
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Starring Dan Aykroyd.
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so I gotta ride the Green line in to the city to work. It has some seriously brain-dead motherfuckers on it but nothing to compare with the shit I've seen on the Red line. Fucking savages on that line.
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Good one Hobo. "Doors openin' lef' si'"
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It could be about the coming war between rich, white, gun-toting, anti-government rubes squaring off against lazy, black, porn-addled, gun-toting, career government employees at L'Enfant Plaza metro station.
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Where do you get off calling me names like that.
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A film about the Civil Rights Movement
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The new documentary by Michael Moore
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First you suggest my home should be taken over just because I cautioned folks not to use the immigration debate to mask the blatant racism that seems to be the driving force for so many people these days. Then I see where you posted that at first you thought the Discovery Channel gunman was Black, but then you realized he couldn't be because Black people shoot everybody. And yet you wonder why I call you a racist punk? Really?
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I live in University Park as well. I'm in on of those not-so-classy houses along Route 1.
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... at the Geffen theater here in Los Angeles. And he was outstanding. Really strong performance in a really strong play.
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Took a job with the Liberra a Congress and commute a mothafuckin hour in to the city. Me and the wife are going to trivia night tonight at Calvert House. If you happen to go there stop by and say hi. We'll be the only white people there.
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Taking your house was about making a point. Did you really think I want to take your house? As for the black guy thing - a few weeks ago a black guy killed a dozen co-workers at a beer distributor in NJ. No hostages taken. What's so wrong about what I wrote?
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Doors openin' lef' si'
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Oh I get it now! You're just joking! Your comments are satire, not meant to be taken seriously! I'm so relieved! I was really starting to be concerned that there really was someone on this site that was so incredibly stupid that he would justify his blanket statement about Black people by pointing to ONE recent incident when a Black gunman killed several people while taking no hostages. I mean even a complete ignoramous would figure out that there are many instances where white (and Asian, and Hispanic) gunmen have killed many people without taking hostages. Not to mention the numerous cases where the perpetrator would have taken out everyone if he had not run out of ammo or hadn't been stopped by the authorities before he could kill more. I mean, it goes without saying that racists are morons, but I didn't think that even a cretinous bigot could be THAT damn dumb! Ha ha ha! Great social satire, BSB! I apologize for taking you seriously! Ha ha ha! You crack me up!!!
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is he gey?
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Never thought I'd see that
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Set in an alternate future where the Civil Rights Movement gets reversed by the Tea Party
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dont you have to be 45 to be president constitutionally speaking?
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Sep 01, 2010 7:26:02 PM CDT
SCREWBINI THE TALKBACK FOR COLORED FOLKS IS THATAWAY ->
by bringingsexyback
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"Colored folks"! Ha, Ha, Ha! good work, BSB. You are doing a splendid job of satirizing the racist morons coming out of the woodwork these days. It's so funny the way you pretend to be one of them by parroting their idiot rantings, when in reality you are holding up a mirror to show them how pathetic and worthless they are. Ha, Ha! I love the way you even throw out an anachronic, seldom-used term like "colored folks" to really rub those bigoted cretins faces in the fact that they are seriously out of touch with reality. Keep it up, BSB! You are performing a tremendous public service by using your witty and pointed satire to remind decent Americans that those racist dirtbags still lurk among us, and to demonstrate that the best strategy is to mock them and marginalize them until they eventually realize that they are a dying breed that will ultimately be flushed down humanity's toilet where they belong. Ha Ha Ha!!! Good one, my man!
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I used to say that when I was thirteen about political movies. That depresses me seeing guys who are probably over thirty saying a movie like this will be seen mainly by old people. So what does that mean? That intelligent people are dying off? I for one look forward to movies like these because I get tired of constant garbage that is poured on us.
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I was gonna say Step Back: Doors Closing was a dance movie in 3D. But you beat me to it.
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how much is AICN getting paid to fill a 4th of my screen with this prince of persia pop up ad every time my mouse strays within 5 inches of the banner? god damn it.
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if the movie hasn't been made yet. did I miss something?
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you missed the other Clooney talkback, you drooling retard.
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it got clooney doesnt it
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That means you WONT be checking out Thirsty Turtle tonight!?
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...from the perspective of the Peter Boyle character.
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To great critical acclaim, and I heard personally from many people he was excellent. I like Pine a lot and I hope he gets this role, although I didn't really think the Lieutenant of Innishmore was very strong, could have been the directing though.
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I thought Pine was excellent in that. By far the best cast member.
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Which should make for an interesting picture. I'm definitely looking forward to it.
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I'm en route!!!!
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A Cheech and Chong reunion movie that co-stars the cast of Dude, Where's My Car?
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Frat bars are bad mmmmmkay?
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The nut taking over the Discovery Channel was Grover?
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I read in my junk email that Clooney's going to be in the next Muppet movie. If it ever gets made. Ah, Muppet movies, where has-beens go to die.
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Oh lovely, another excuse for Clooney to pontificate about how evil conservatives are and how god-like liberals are.
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where do YOU stand politically. I couldn't figure it out from your above post. You sound like a pretty middle-of-the-road guy.
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80s. Political debate over.
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The search is on for a serial groper wrecking havoc on the Red Line.
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Woo Hoo! Ha Ha Ha! Your social satire is as witty and biting as ever! "Is That You Hip Hop Name?" Ha Ha! Keep on lampooning those racist morons out there, buddy. But I hope you won't mind a little advice. Social satire is generally more effective if you mix in a little subtlety. Otherwise there are some thick-skulled doofuses out there that might not realize you are MOCKING them, and might instead think that you are actually one of them! I have to give you credit, though. That random "WHITE PRIDE" shout out was hilarious! As if being proud of your race means you have to be a racist! Ha Ha Ha! Priceless! Keep on doing your part to combat racism and bigotry by continuing to make fun of the boneheaded racists out there and exposing them as the scum they truly are! Good work, my brother!
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You GET me. Thank God someone gets me. Of course this is nothing but a black ops style ruse to weed out the racists. But you're the only one who knows. Don't blow my cover homes!
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Your comedy routine is getting old. At lest BSB is funny from time to time. You're just tired.
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Good job, partner! But you need to brush up on your stereotypical Black talk if you want to continue to entertain us with your spoof of racist assholes. It's "Holmes", not "Homes". Hope I didn't blow your cover, Holmes! I don't think so, though, because Choppah obviously fell for it!
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Every time my eyes flash past the word "VULTURE" here, I have awful flashbacks to the dark, dark months last year where we were hearing about Sam Raimi's plans for SPIDEY 4. ::SHUDDER::
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