WOLF MAN NEEDS A NEW DIRECTOR
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Last week, Mark Romanek was directing a film version of the Wolf Man, starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, set to start shooting in a few weeks. This week, he’s just another unemployed guy with a beard.
Universal told Hollywood Reporter: "Romanek leaves behind a well-prepped production that is poised to move forward and Universal thanks him for helping bring one of its most cherished legacies and characters to renewed life."
You don’t have to take that crap from them, bro. Last time I got fired, I exploded a fish in the breakroom microwave. Now it’ll always smell just like they act over there, man, fishy. 
"He just blew the opportunity of a lifetime, which is mind-boggling." [Writer Nikki] Finke reports the film was budgeted at $100 million, but Romanek felt he couldn’t make the film with that kind of money. Finke’s insider says, "He’s a purist, an artiste, an exquisite craftsman, but he just had a budget schedule he couldn’t accomodate." [DeadlineHollywoodDaily via RopeofSilicon]
Officially, of course, the departure was a result of Romanek leaving over "creative differences", but that’s what I tell everyone at job interviews. Only the stupid ones believe me. Reached for comment, Del Toro said, "He flip you," in a strange, barely intelligible accent. What an actor. What a talent.
[Thanks to wangtastic commenter Bryce for the tip. Just the tip, that's what he promised.]
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Am I the only one who think that Wolf (top picture, on left) from American Gladiators looks like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball?
Somebody call up Mark Steven Johnson or Stephen Sommers! I actually heard they were wanting to bring on Breck Eisner. All three of those guys…quality lays.
^Please adjust the grammar in your head.^
hahaha…Jacktion, why you gotta make fun of my pappy?
they forgot MJF
I think they should have Harry Knowles direct the new film! (insert Tom Cruise Thetan laugh here)
I’ll direct. Wolfman is a metaphor right? It’s not about wolf/man? Tell me he’s some found child, or something plausible, because I’m "a purist, an artiste, an exquisite craftsman" and I don’t like beastiality.
Why is Harvey Keitel up there? Please tell me he isn’t the closest thing to anthony hopkins you could find.
Sorry, Lincoln, I was pointing to your comment, but pointing at mine.
Oh, shit, he was the cleaner in PulpFiction. Duh.
Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe
So, now can we start sucking each other’s dicks?
Where the fuck is everybody today?
I’m still here, El Guapo.
Finke reports the film was budgeted at $100 million, but Romanek felt he couldn’t make the film with that kind of money.
Good for Universal for canning his spoiled ass. Jesus fuck, I would have given them their picture and kept about $75mil in change.
You know, they made Abbott and Costello Meet the Wolfman for about 1/1000th of that budget, and I would bet four out of five
dentistsdrunkards would prefer it to the finely polished $150mil turd this jackhole would have floated out into the punchbowl.fuck dude, you give me a hundred million dollars, and i can assure you you’ll have “the wolfman” in the can, polaroids of bigfoot performing a standing 69 with the lock ness monster, and then just for good measure, i’d throw in video of katherine heigl shitting into a cup and eating it.
<<Where the fuck is everybody today?>>
Sorry, Jacktion, I was still in the other thread waiting for Katherine Heigl to move her hand.
and for the record: i’d pay $100 million to watch wolf from the “new” american gladiators, fuck malibu from the “old” american gladiators.
My wife and I enjoy the American Gladiators program. The wolf man is very amusing – he howels everytime they introduce him. He also looks like he works out.
the dude is not in
I did one of those "Which Pulp Fiction Character Are You" tests and it said I was Winston Wolfe. I think that qualifies me to direct this movie. How do you think Brett Ratner got the X-Men 3 contract? He was taking an x-men character quiz, then Robert Preston walked into the room, and Ratner was all like, "Aren’t you the dude from The Last Starfighter?" and Preston was all like, "I’ve been watching you . . . not in a creepy way . . . well a little."
Howels from the bowels.
I took one of those "Which retarded internet geek are you?" tests, and it said that I was Sexman.
Wolfman has nards!
glen,
i’d like to try and fuck you like wolf would do it.
The Mighty Fek’lhr hears Jason Bateman is available. Bateman did well in previous wolf-like productions.
The Mighty Fek’lhr also hears voices in His head. Tune into KCRG TV 9 tonight to see a shocking, horrific murder at a small office in Iowa City.
Nicollette Sheridan’s bush could play a mean wolf
What if they brought together Bateman and Michael J. Fox for an endgame of sorts. That would blow my mind.
Anthony Hopkins in a movie about a "scary monster"? Really? You must be jesting…
Bateman is available, but Fox is busy shooting the sequel to Shakes the Clown.
Oh yeah, I went there…
I liked Michael J. Fox’s camerawork in Cloverfield.
^awesome
The Mighty Fek’lhr hopes this avatar will make Him seem more funnierer.
avatars dont always fek, i’ve changed mine a lot and i always durst
I loved Shakes the Clown! please tell me you’re serious!
"The Mighty Fek’lhr hopes this avatar will make Him seem more funnierer."
BONG!!!!!
Gladiators Wolf > *
I lycan this to the time I got a $100 lap dance with no happy ending.
Wait! There is still hope for the Wolf Man production! The Mighty Fek’lhr saw Tickle Me Anselmo in a video online, and he said, and The Mighty One quotes: "I like to make werewolf MOVIES!"
QAPLAH!
My neighbor was a werewolf. Tragically he died while drinking a can of Coors Light.
Thank you Bazooka Joe.
Luch-my brother and I call drinking Coors Light "werewolf hunting". ROFLKOTAL!
Quaplah! (Or whatever it is you say) I’m so Romulan!
WOW! Durst.
I’m really getting sick of these Roscoe Jenkins ads.
If any of you see it, you’re dead to me.
*chodin stumbles into the room…*
sheesh, what the fuck is my boss’ problem!?! work? on a wednesday?
fuckin’ jehovah witness.
I can’t get enough Mo’Nique so i’ll be watching it. please tell me if Terry Crews is in it too? he’s a comedy genius!
What’s the deal with "natural male enhancement" anyway? Does that stuff really work
, Lance Jack Chod Erswi Eib?It works on 75% of lab mice.boy, this party really died
I can’t wait for Sexman’s review on "Jataka Tales".
I can’t wait for Sexman’s review on "
Jataka TalesBall Garglers & Ass Sniffers #2".FIXED! QAPLAH!
Does this avitar make me sexy?
No, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII don’t want to fall in love
I always wondered what a tiny Chris Isaac would look like.
Pauly,
Chris IsaakHelena Christiansen always does it for me.She was the chick in that video, right?
Wasn’t Chris Isaak in that one Twin Peaks movie? WTF?
I am blank…as a fart…
fek – “yes” those natural male enhancements work. and of course, by “work” i mean “make you grow a fucking elbow on your dick”.
No, that was Hayden Christiansen.
Sportafuckers!!!
Fuck a natural male enhancement. I’ve always thought that the more you use it, the bigger it’ll get. But, I am only basing that on my own experiences. I’ve used mine alot, too much really. And, well, size doesn’t matter.
Just string your wang to a kettle bell. Let that fucker hang for a few weeks.
No, that was Hayden Christiansen.
I feel so… dirty now.
If by natural male enchancement you mean getting it really hard, yeah, that works for me
Twin Peaks? Anyone? Anyone?
Eib-Tell us all the truth, size DOES matter, right?
*sob*
I knew it! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fek, yes. to both questions
and the movie was Fire Walk With Me
Saying "size doesn’t matter" is just a way for chicks to demasculate those of us with big dicks. I say we take a stand. All of us with big dicks need to refuse to put out until our demands are met! We’ll see how much the ocean motion does for you all then. Wahahahaha
Are we trying to name all of Chris Issak’s movies?
Because that would be a… Wicked Game!!!
Mrs. The Mighty Fek’lhr says His is "just right".
That means "big and wonderful", right?
Right???
Wait, Nom. Jeez, you cant do that to me. I am one of the good ones
Jack, He thinks you know what is coming:
BONG!!!!!!!!
See what I did there? I talked about naming his movies, but I used one of his song titles as the joke! It was a pun war false start!
I rock!
Well, I wasn’t talking to you, eib. You told the truth, thus didn’t demasculate by big dicks ego. You’re cool. Not part of the problem, part of the solution. Your service is greatly appreciated…..etc.
yeah, Fek, sure.
I can divulge no more female secrets or I shall be banned from all lingerie pillow fights.
You’ve got the right idea, Nom!
I refuse to have sex until my demands are met:
it’s the motion in the ocean, but its hard to get to England in a row boat
Well, Jack in a Heart Shaped World we would have caught on sooner
If someone laughed as hard as that as I did, then Somebody’s Cryin’!
size doesn’t matter…
…when you’re BTKing!!!
am i right!?!? am i right!?!?!
*chodin glances to DB’s dead nazi mother…she says nothing, but gives him the ol’ double-hand guns to the junk*
True Story: One year for christmas I asked for a Too $hort album and the Bryan Adams single from Robin Hood. Wait, chris issak? He sucks.
That Jack, There She Goes again
I still have my tapes of all the music from Twin Peaks. Julie Cruise, Chris Isaak, Angelo Badalamenti. I cant help it, I like it
nom: so that must of been the most homo-erotic, gangster christmas ever!?
Eib, if you’re going to stop playing this game, then you need to Let Me Down Easy.
BTW, I’ve got a bunch of Chris Issak cd’s.
NEW POST, ISAAK LOVERS!
It was, chodin.
*Oh, I would die for yoouuuuuuu, punk ass Biiiiiiiiiiatch!**
ROFLKOTAL, He thought the title said, "Wolf Man Needs a New Dooter"!!!!
Did I mention the muscle relaxers and alcohol?
WOW DID J00 GUYS SEE THAT BRYCE GAVE LANCE THE TIP! ROFLKOTAL!
Bryc-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee