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Jonah Hill To Direct A Horror/Sci-Fi Film?
Nordling here.
According to Heat Vision, Jonah Hill's eager to expand his filmmaking experience by directing his first film, called KITCHEN SINK. Written by Oren Uziel, the story seems aptly named as it features zombies, vampires, and aliens (oh my!). The story is about zombie teens and vampire teens who must stop fighting and come together to stop an alien invasion.
Already I like the title - the film seems very aware of itself and with Jonah Hill behind the lens I'd be surprised if this wasn't more comedy than horror. If it does live up to the title, then I hope Hill and Uziel fill it to the brim with every horror and sci-fi fetish they can imagine. Jonah Hill's very much a cinephile, and this sounds like a good choice for his first directorial effort, giving him the chance put all that film passion into it.
The project looks to be set up at Sony Pictures with Columbia, the studio that is also releasing his 21 JUMP STREET film.
Nordling, out.
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It can't be anything other than comedy. Intended or not.
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ha ha!!!
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Hollywood is just the fail. So many young talented people out there. Not to hate and maybe Hill is perfect for this but this is a little tiring. Hill decided he can't act(thank God) and has moved on and just landed this gig? I mean... Really? Movie's plot is based off of day dreams I had in middle school so that's cool I guess.
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I don't know. To pull off what sounds really chaotic and nuts is hard for an established director–I have to give Michael Bay props in this area. Despite the fact that his Transformers films, remarkably enough, have less depth than the cartoons, he manages the chaos beautifully. The same thing applies to Paul Verhoeven, who somehow manages to put as shitstorm of insanity on the screen in films like Robocop and Starship Troopers–but for a first-time director? With experience only in front of the camera (as far as I am aware)? I am not seeing it, which is not to say that he shouldn't try; though I am not expecting much.
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...that if you're a fat Jew in Hollywood, you can accomplish ANYTHING!!!
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... That's about right.
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leave directing TO DIRECTORS why the FRAKKKKKKKKKK actors want to direct????? ther some directors THAT SUKKKKKK AT IT so why the hellll a fraking B-list Actor wants to direct. PISESE ME OFF
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March 1, 2011, 11:06 p.m. CST
I bet you if this project was presented independently with nothing to do with Jonah Hill...
by TheSeeker7
No studio or production company would even remotely touch it, you couldn't even get a meeting with a VP. And I really don't mean to jump on the Hill hating bandwagon, because in a way I think that's pretty lame in of itself, but this just sounds really weak.
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March 1, 2011, 11:20 p.m. CST
DISGUSTING FAT TALENTLESS SPAWN OF NEPOTISM AND LAZINESS
by golden tribw
fuck him
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After a failed directing career, he will probably move onto blogging movie reviews, which will eventually morph into a movie news site called ISN'T IT AWESOME NEWS
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normally i'm all aboard the nepotism hating bandwagon. hollywood as we know it is only going to be filled with the offspring and relatives of all the existing stars, producers, directors or others already involved in the entertainment industry. it's a closed universe. no one gets 'discovered' anymore and when you hear about someone being discovered, you find out they are like the neice or nephew of someone. that's about as far as it gets from new blood. but i hadn't heard of jonah hill being a nepotism case- who's he related to? oh, and i did a shirt for threadless.com involving zombies, aliens and vampires like 7 years ago, Jonah. bet you don't even remember buying it.
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Not currently on my must-see list.
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Isn't he too obese to direct this? What if he sits on one of the cast and crushes them or eats all the food a craft services and the crew s starves to death. Isn't this the same concern they had on harrys mars movie after he ate most of the sets and two actors
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Jonah Hill is funny, but fuck if he isn't just as lucky if not more so. But that's the way it goes I guess. More power to him, hope "his first movie" is good. I'll see it in theaters.
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Just because you all look like Johah Hill but aren't 1/20'th as successful as him doesn't mean you need to be jealous. Wash off your hate.
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his aforementioned "luck" has nothing to do with the fact that he's Jewish. I'm referring to his alleged first meeting with Seth Rogan a couple days before his audition for THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN in a movie theater where he made a good impression on the actor/writer/producer/wunderkind. I love these dudes though, I got no beef. Just jealousy if I'm being honest.
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But I think the funniest joke this movie could make would be to play the entire film straight. Like when Bubba Ho-Tep, a movie about Elvis and a senile old black guy who thinks he's JFK, teaming up to fight an evil Egyptian soul sucking mummy in an East Texas rest home, actually turned out to be a slowly paced character study about old age life's regrets, just dressed up in wackiness. Anyone can make another hipster zombie comedy, but to take a ridiculous concept, then actually make me fall for it, then make me genuinely care about the fate of its characters, takes real fucking talent.
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I'm already not going to see it.
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sounds like a big project, we'll see if he can pull this off. not to mention the movie version 21 jump st, there's a lot at stake right there
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I'm always willing to give someone a chance at something new. The haters who populate this site just come across as bitter douchebags who only have one string in their own bows, and are judging others by their own miserable standards.</p> </p> A couple of years ago, who would have thought that Ben Affleck would turn out to be a pretty fuckin' great director? The mindset that some people have around here, rooting for failure, is just baffling to me. I hope that Jonah Hill proves all of the sad-sack haters wrong - not just to spite them, but because I'd rather see someone make a great film than a shitty one, any day.</p> </p> Until then, let's just wait and see.
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March 2, 2011, 12:36 a.m. CST
Vampires, Zombies, and Aliens? In one movie? Really?
by Dr. Egon Spengler
Jesus Christ, does no one have a good idea anymore? I don't even care about Jonah Hill directing it, I'm still trying to get past this very juvenile idea for a movie.
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Maybe they'll hit the Shaun of the Dead vibe and actually make a funny zombie movie. I do agree with those complaining about this though. I love zombie movies and fiction, but for the love of the shambling undead, they need to reign this in. At this point they need to do something serious and not so "wink wink look at my subgenre knowledge and mash-up brilliance". We need zombie films that move the genre forward, things like World War Z, Day by Day Armageddon, or maybe a completely original idea that doesn't have a gimmicky element attached to it nor is based on a zombie comic book or video game. The Walking Dead is the perfect example of this. Good well thought out storytelling about people dealing with the zompocalypse. Why is that so hard?
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My brilliant idea: Ghosts vs. Demons vs. Poop Monsters vs. a Warlock (warlock to be played by Charlie Sheen) Can anyone say "winning" ?
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The Green Hornet! Yeech!
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it takes place in a world that's not exactly ours. yes, it's aware, but it's not like a tongue in cheek kind of thing. it actually reads like a fucking up cartoon. jonah fats is not the kind of director that should be tackling oren uziel's script. it really should be someone who has some serious commercial or fx work under their belt. not an actor itching to make the jump. also, that script is pretty damn funny. it's not a straight up horror/scifi thing.
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My brother in law works for US customs on the Canada border, he's gotten to meet a shit ton of stars. The one time he meet Jonah Hill he said he was the most arrogant duchebag to ever come through there. He refused to cooperate in anyway and was stupid enough to think he could bring his sack of weed with him into the U.S.. Needless to say his fat ass got strip searched.
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The guy is definitely too dumb to know how to direct.
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March 2, 2011, 2:27 a.m. CST
This headline sounds like something out of an alternative universe
by _Venkman
Or maybe I'm drunk. I actually saw Jonah at Conan at the old late show a couple years ago.
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Gordon Ramsey vs. Jonah Hill in KITCHEN NIGHTMARES: The Game!!!
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Hate to break it to you, but The Walking Dead was a comic book before it was on TV.
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March 2, 2011, 3:31 a.m. CST
Sounds crap. Teen Vamps. Teen Zombies. Are the fucking aliens Teens too?
by Ecto-1
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and Atomic Super Monsters!!!! Fix it, please fix it. Fix it while you still can. Add them and it will be Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooold!!!!!
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Are what's killing are health system. Just think of all the money spent on Harry because of his poor lifestyle choices.
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Put down the fork and maybe eat a fucking apple and save taxpayers some money
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Can't add much to the insightful comments above. There isn't a Hill-Hating bandwagon, the guy just inspires average people to wonton acts of violence. I could give a half a corn-filled turd if this little prick died tomorrow. Unfortunately youth is on his side and we will need to endure him until he croaks from obesity/drugs or fades from the public eye. Hopefully he will just fade as I don't think I could stand the thought of a cult following after his death.
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You've got to admit that, while Ben Affleck appears to be a talented director (I haven't seen any of his work) you also have to admit that that synopsis of what Jonah Hill seems to be attempting is a bit ambitious for ANYONE, never mind a first time director. At the very best I imagine it's going to be a bunch of set pieces, barely linked by plot, logic, or anything else. Like a Len Wiseman film, only much, much worse. I don't care about Jonah Hill one way or the other, though I do think that this directing gig (if it happens) is coming for way left field.
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Seth Rogan a "wunderkind?" Really? Admittedly the guy is funny (seemingly one-note, but funny) but a "wunderkind?" For some reason I don't see an Orson Welles when I look at him (especially not since he lost the weight for Green Hornet).
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It's amazing that Charlie Sheen has never released a sex tape. How is that possible?
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That is amazing, actually. Just listened to his interview with Stern. He said putting anything on film (from the bedroom) is against his number one law/rule. Charlie doesn't need a sex tape though. He's already a badass.
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He runs on rocket fuel and tiger's blood.
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March 2, 2011, 6:56 a.m. CST
JUST FUCKING MAKE OREN UZIELS MORTAL KOMBAT SCRIPT!!!!!!!!!!!
by GrapeFruit
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I don't think it's fat people who are "killing ARE health system".<p> What's killing your health system is a lack of prospective doctors. They keep failing their exams as soon as they're asked to spell the word "our". <p> I don't wanna be pedantic, but fuck me that's kindergarten stuff.
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He's a fucking douchebag of the highest order. And it was in a professional capacity. That said, I think (on screen) he's a very funny guy and his ego is big enough to direct a film.
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March 2, 2011, 7:44 a.m. CST
It's weird that a few people have said he's a dick in real life.
by The_Dark_Shite
He's funny sometimes, but he can't act for shit. I always assumed he was in movies more or less as himself. Kinda like a fat, useless Sean Connery, with pubes growing out of his head.
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Give someone with real talent a shot and not some fucking fat headed flavor of the month. This project sounds fucking retarded and is just piggybacking off every sorry ass trend that's going on in jew town at the moment.
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Not a single whimper from AICN for a woman that shared the stage with Marilyn Monroe and was considered nearly as hot... Rest In Peace Jane: 1921-2011.
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Pic Of The Day... My apologies to AICN.
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March 2, 2011, 8:08 a.m. CST
As long as the useless fat bastard is BEHIND the camera
by Simon Butler
it's a start. Lord knows he's about as funny as crabs.
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Well said, sir.
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March 2, 2011, 8:11 a.m. CST
this one time..my brother in law cupped Hill's balls.....
by MacReady452
....a little too long. When Jonah called him a groping homo, bro in law abused his power,stole his weed and fingered his asshole. Who is the asshole in this story?
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balls on that! i wanna see the cinematic madness of clint howard directing skills.
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i didnt think so. amateur.
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i'll bet the area around his sack and ass crack smell horrendous, and are perpetually moist. i don't think that about all fat guys, but he looks the type.
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he will bring the 'front butt' into fashion like asthon kutcher (would like to think he) ushered in trucker caps. you heard it here first. sweaty, highwaisted front butts (with mooseknuckles optional) will be all the rage.
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Oh he's a cinephile? That's enough experience? His love of movies? Aren't all film directors cinephiles, really? Has he ever directed ANYTHING before? Shorts? Plays? Skits? Spec ads? *Anything* Sounds he is getting this handed to him on a silver platter rather than him actually developing a project for him to direct himself like every other actor/director.
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Not Ben the actor/director. I mean he will Gilbert Gottfried his career and end up doing voice work for insurance commercials.
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Yes, he was incredibly annoying in Super bad, but he was great in Get Him to the Greek.
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nothing. not even a short. though he has written, he wrote 21 Jump ST. good luck hollywood.
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food to his mouth
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Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson and others can just fuck right off cause they never directed a short or anything before they acted? Me say....FUCK YOUR LOGIC.
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and he started off with directing a slow moving drama instead of a huge gore/makeup movie that evan sam raimi would struggle with.
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Mel and Eastwood, I believe, shepherded their first projects from the beginning as being a vehicle they could direct. It wasn't like someone wrote a script and a company was like "Hey, let's get Jonah Hill to direct this!" which is what it sounds like. As far as I know, Hill has no connection to the writer. Its not like Bryce Dallas Howard, who is going to direct her first feature as well, but directed a short in 2006 (that she co-wrote) and also co-wrote the feature script.
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March 2, 2011, 10:49 a.m. CST
LOL, zombot, my friend refers to the 'front butt' as a 'gunt'
by THE_CHOPPAH
Jonah Hill, rockin' the gunt!
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March 2, 2011, 10:52 a.m. CST
Kinda like a fat, useless dark_shite, RE: Sean Connery, with pubes growing out of his head.
by THE_CHOPPAH
LOL! Why Sean Connery?
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mark my words.
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March 2, 2011, 10:54 a.m. CST
Vades, maybe the real movie is going to be a documentary shot around him making this movie
by THE_CHOPPAH
Kind of like Overnight.
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I see sci-fi, could see comedy. But zombies or vampires doesn't equel horror, is there a threat that they impose? they sound like they're adjusted to a society that allows them to marry and produce children that grow to become teenagers. maybe the alien invasion is very brutal and taken seriously? still sounds silly to me.
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March 2, 2011, 10:58 a.m. CST
Speaking of comic/horror semi-vanity projects, whatever happened...
by WriteForTheEdit
...to Rogen and McLovin's "two dudes vs. the end-of-times apocalypse" movie? I actually thought that might be worth watching, late one night, really drunk...
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that's seth and jay vs the apoclypse i think is still on
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I hope so. And actually, I think Jonah would make a better "Larry" in the Stooges movie.
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But I did laugh out loud at that. Well done sir.
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March 2, 2011, 1 p.m. CST
Wht does this remind me of Idle Hands..the movie that
by openthepodbaydoorshal
tried to be hip, wacky, scary....although it's hard to go wrong with an undead Seth Green.
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March 2, 2011, 1:05 p.m. CST
Well whatever it takes to keep that hideous fuck behind the camera
by Andy Pandy
Seriously Jonah's got a face for radio as they say.
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And I completely dissagree a massive effects film is ideal for his first stab at directing. I think it's generally understood that a smallish drama is the best way to go for a first outing unless you have experience in 2nd unit or doing commercials or TV. Jonah Hill has experience getting stoned and acting like a jackass.
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There you go Hollywood. I combined three movie monsters (aliens, zombies, and vampires) into one single creature. Plus, no one has used Uranus as a location in a film before. Plenty of opportunity for toiled humor here.
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I'm ready to see him fall hard and fail utterly. Die, you talentless, fat hack.
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So we get to see Jonah Hill's tits instead of Mathilda May's? And in 3D?
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I like Hill. His done some cool movies even if they are a little uneven. Who cares?! It's better then 90% of the shit out there. I also, think East Bound & Down is fucking brilliant and look at them as EPIC EPIC MOVIES!
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Was a reference to the fact that Hill always seems to play himself. <p> I wouldn't ordinarily put him in the same sentence as the HUGE leg end that is Sir Sean. <p> The comments that were specific to Hill, were "fat" "useless" & "pubes". I would stand by those comments in a court of law too!
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