Writer Tom Wolfe (who I’m not sure whether to describe as a fop or a dandy) has sold the option to his most recent book, I Am Charlotte Simmons. The last book Wolfe had adapted was Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987 which critics largely drank the milkshake of.
The screenplay will be adapted by a dude whose last movie was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and directed by a chick whose only movie credit is Take the Lead, the high school dancing movie with Antonio Banderas.
Wolfe researched the book by spending time at Duke, Stanford, U. Florida, Penn, Michigan, and UNC. The resulting novel was a super campy if somewhat accurate portrayal of a naïve country girl’s first year at an elite private university. In one memorable scene, the title character loses her virginity to the A-hole fraternity president while wasted at a frat formal, and later she overhears him telling all his friends about her “huge hillbilly beaver”.
If done right, I could see this being a cute college version of Can’t Hardly Wait. But with the people they’ve got working on it, I could see the hillbilly beaver saving the rec center. -[Source]
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Huge Hillbilly Beaver? Sounds like Lanky has a new animal friend to share with us.
If you changed this guy’s outfit to green and gave him a purple half-mask, he’d be The Riddler. Then maybe I’d care about him.
What about a foppish dandy? Never underestimate the power of compounded insults. You fahkin’ nancy-boy, limp-wristed queeah.
I think I liked the book and movie better when they were called The Rules of Attraction…
But that’s just me, Yah Qeeeah!
Tom Wolfe appears to be the sorta guy you’d find hanging out backstage at an Elton John concert…not that I’ve ever been to one, or backstage at an Elton John event, or… *gets nervous, defensive*
LOOK, the roadies drugged me, ok?! I don’t like to talk about it.
Hey Marcus, you know Bateman right? He went to Camden and works at Pierce and Pierce…
…she overhears him telling all his friends about her “huge hillbilly beaver”
Sounds like a role Emma Watson was born to play.
I miss college.
A-Hole fraternity president… Dane Cook or Dax Shepard?
A-Hole fraternity president…GARY BUSEY!
Donkey, Ryan Reynolds.
Gary Busey doesn’t take girls virginity
He just borrows it for a while.
yeah, he left me one of his business cards, Bryce. I liked Paul Allen’s better, though…
WE’VE GOT BUSH!!!
Gary Busey doesn’t take girls virginity
He helps himself to their bone-marrow occasionally, though.
I bet poor Brian Cox never gets raped in the shower…
You guys are picking protagonist douchebags for the antagonist role. The a-hole frat prez would be played by Matthew Lillard or Seann William Scott.
the unchartable brilliance of the minds behind Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and take the Lead?!?
OMG!
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was an amazing movie.
ROBIN!
The a-hole frat president will cut her hillbilly beaver bush with a spoon.
Why do research for a private school book at state uni’s? I’m just saying…
oddly enough, a Google search of ‘huge hillbilly beaver’ yields surprisingly unsexy results.
Oh and Pauly- Love that movie too but always reffered to Zane as the prettiest man i ever seen.
Looking at that banner pic, I don’t think fop or dandy would be the correct term. I believe the word you’re looking for is "magician".
Duke, Stanford and Penn are private schools. Florida, Michigan and UNC are for assholes. So he covered both sides well.
"Foppin’ dandy" mean "fuckin’ queer", right?
Robo, by "magician" you mean he’ll hide my dick in his prostate?
Or it could be dandy fop…as in "the velveteen touch of a dandy fop".
Come on, you’re an internet blogger. You’re supposed to know your Mr. Show.
Those readers younger than Harrison Ford may skip to the next post...
The banner pic is so gay it makes Truman Capote look like Harry S Truman.
The screenplay will be adapted by a dude whose last movie was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
So anyone who sees this should expect the lead actress’ character to hail from Kentucky but talk with an accent like she’s from London?
All of you people that have kids or plan on having kids and are saving up for their college tuition, please keep in mind that I will most likely be the one who helpfully instructs your daughter on how to make their beaver much more city-fied and so-fist-i-cated. In the memo line of the tuition check, just write "Opportunity for Prof. Wangchung to defile my little angel." And yes, I giggle almost constantly.
His hat looks like someone spit their milkshake a little too high
I went to Michigan Burnsy so…
Yeah i guess you’re right.
I think I liked the book and movie better when they were called The Rules of Attraction…
Trust me when I say the book is nothing like Rules of Attraction. It’s like comparing Kids to American Pie.
So anyone who sees this should expect the lead actress’ character to hail from Kentucky but talk with an accent like she’s from London?
Yeah. London, Kentucky.
So anyone who sees this should expect the lead actress’ character to hail from Kentucky but talk with an accent like she’s from London?
See my comment above:
Sounds like a role Emma Watson was born to play.
I like the chick from harry potter for this role. Sadly i have yet to be contacted about the casting director position.
SMB, if it had said Ohio State instead, I would have said retarded assholes.
Burnsy, that THE Slow-hio State University. WTF is up wit dat anyway? The Ohio blah blah blah . . . whatever.
Hear me talkin’, huge hillbilly beaver? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’m gonna get medieval on your ass.
Erswi, I ask you this:
Would you saw "A retard" or "THE retard"?
I think this could be Miley Cyrus’ big break out.
Wolfe’s picture has a real "Branson’s very own version of David Copperfield" feel to it.
Ooh Vance getting all literary on my ass. Although I bet poor Brian Cox never gets raped in the shower…
But which one is Kids and which is American Pie?
Man, American Pie would have been so much better if one of them had AIDS.
In Kids a people get AIDS. In American Pie people get Super-AIDS.
"I’m Casper, the friendly ghost / The DOPEST ghost in town / All the bitches love me ’cause I’m fuckin’ CASPER / The DOPEST ghost around."
LANKY, IF I DON’T SEE SOME HILLBILLY BEAVER AND FUCKING FAST, I AM GONNA FUCKING POST PICTURES OF
YOURMYBREND0N’S MOM TO THE INTERNETS!!!!!!Wait, so they are remaking Son In Law. Does this mean it is okay to let people know that you think Pauly Shore is awesome. Not that I do, I just have an Encino Man poster gathering dust in a closet that would be perfect for over the toliet.
new up!
That’s one ugly bitch!
I think the proper term for Wolff would be either a "cad" or "man about town"…or if you’re in South Carolina "dat danged ferry lookin fella"
Gary Busey shouts at huge hillbilly beavers, "ME!!"
Emma Watson is no good. You could still see skin under her scant bush.
If Winona’s Got a Big Brown Beaver, then there should be nothing but beaver.
Maybe a slight pink protrusion, no?
Oh, and Oscar Wilde called. He wants his clothes back, tough guy.
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Foppishly dandylike.