08.10.09 I BLAME YOU, TODD PHILLIPS
(It’s okay, Birthday Dog isn’t traumatized, he’s too busy partyin’.)
Like everyone else, I enjoyed The Hangover a lot, but I’m usually careful to point out that it was good mainly because of Zach Galifianakis, a likable cast, and a director who knows comedy and has a nice visual style (Todd Phillips), and not because of the script or the concept (which one studio head wanted to call What Happens in Vegas). Sadly, that won’t stop a couple of the original screenwriters from getting work because of The Hangover’s success (even though it’s well-known that Todd Phillips and Jeremy Garelick did extensive rewrites).
Universal has picked up the script “Change Up” from “Hangover” writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. David Dobkin is attached to direct and produce.
Nothing wrong with that, right? Hold on…
The studio is keeping the logline under wraps, though it is known to be a body-switching comedy. In addition to “Hangover,” which has become the top-grossing R-rated comedy with $258.6 million, Lucas and Moore also wrote the recent New Line comedies “The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” and “Four Christmases.” Dobkin last directed 2007’s “Fred Claus.” [THR]
So that’s Ghosts of Girlfriends Past plus Four Christmases plus Fred Claus plus body swap comedy? …We’re gonna need a bigger WOOOOF. I can’t wait for the next Lucas/Moore/Dobkin collaboration, Vince Vaughn is Fired Up about Breakfast Cereal.
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I BLAME YOU, TODD PHILLIPS
Well, if they’re going to name it after a pitch, at least they didn’t go with “Backdoor Slider”.
I want to swap bodies with a 14 year old Thai hooker.
In other news, Geroge Lucas is still trying to get Demi Moore to play “Slave Leia” for him, “just this once, baby.”
Wait, this isn’t gonna be called “Sperm Swappin’ Sluts 5″ is it?
Cause I may have it on DVD…
I haven’t enjoyed a body swap comedy since Ellen Barkin woke up without a penis. It worked because it had that documentary feel.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past plus Four Christmases plus Fred Claus plus body swap comedy?
Ok, I know this one. First step is to simplify the equation, so I’ll simplify and write it as “Shit x 4″…
If you suffer from the ghosts of girlfriends past, you didn’t kill them good enough.
If I worked at a funeral home I think I’d constantly create my own body swap comedies.
If you want to get rid of the ghost of a girlfriend past, you need to have an ex-whorecism.
I hate to kill Party Dog’s party, but when ComingSoon first ran this news, they said it was about a successful businessman with a nice wife switching bodies with his unemployed slacker best friend. I guess maybe they’ve rushed out and retracted it from all the sites.
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