In a move that should surprise no one, Matthew Wilder has dropped Lindsay Lohan from his Linda Lovelace biopic INFERNO. Playing the star of the groundbreaking 1972 porno DEEP THROAT was supposed to represent some kind of comeback opportunity for Lohan, but it always seemed improbable given Lohan's recidivist nature. Until she proves she can stay off drugs and out of prison, I can't imagine anyone is willing to bond her.
Now that the inevitable has occurred, Wilder has swiftly replaced Lohan with the lovely Malin Akerman - who's done her best work thus far in comedies like THE HEARTBREAK KID (she's one of the few things I didn't loathe in that movie) and, most recently, Adult Swim's CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. Given the presumed harshness of the material (Lovelace didn't just have sex with humans on film), I hope for Akerman's sake that Wilder's screenplay is more than a sensationalistic dramatization of Lovelace's greatest hits; if this is a stinker, it could stick to her like SHOWGIRLS did to Elizabeth Berkley.
Wilder's only directed one other film, the Philip K. Dick-inspired YOUR NAME HERE, which remains unreleased after making the festival rounds in 2008.
