Back in 1998, Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont wrote and directed the very underrated Can’t Hardly Wait. Unfortunately, they followed it up with Viva Rock Vegas, Josie and the Pussycats, Surviving Christmas, Leap Year, and in what might be the most uninspired pun title of all time, Made of Honor. Most of their credits are so sh*tty, they’re actually required by law to call them “discredits.” (*BONG!*)
Their latest is the rom-com version of Groundhog Day. From HollywoodReporter:
Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, among the go-to duos for romantic comedies, have signed to write a draft of “Repeat After Me” for Universal. In the vein of “Groundhog Day,” the project centers on a woman who realizes she is reliving her disastrous wedding day again and again and begins to question getting married.
Get it? “Repeat after me?” That is what you say at a wedding, while it is also an accurate description of the plot. That’s so f*cking clever I just got a nose bleed. I can’t wait till this comes out. I’ve even invented a fun drinking game for it: if you get to the end of the movie, and the bride realizes it’s really not her handsome dickish, career-obsessed fiance she wants to marry, but the cute-but-slightly-boring-Colin-Firth-like best friend who was there all along… chug the rest of your beer. Then blow your brains out.
Step 3, profit.
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They can’t call it ‘Repeat After Me’… I simply can’t change the clever title of my movie about Karen Carpenter.
Okay, I’m now only interested in trying to go back through old posts to see where Vinny hid Vaughan.
I’m thinking in Lohan’s snatch on the previous one.
Repeat After Me! Because she repeats the same day over and over! Haha!
*dies from asphyxiation due to autoerotic dismissive wanking*
Vince Vaughn eating a churro is the new mascot of Filmdrunk.
*gives chocolate to Birthday Dog*
If they don’t use Billy Idol on a skipping record in a preview for this, I will eat a shoe.
Replace the groundhog with a beaver, huh? Very clever…
What’s the protocol for “Corn Dog Vaughn” when posting about a Vince Vaughn movie?
I can’t imagine anything more romantic than pretending Andie MacDowell isn’t annoying. Or can act.
She only questions getting married because if a woman has to relive her wedding day over and over again, it means she has to give blow jobs every night instead of only once a year and everybody knows that women hate doing that.
I imagine its somewhat like that one scene in Being John Malkovich but with way more ice cream cones.
C’mon people, we all know this could be worse. They could actually remake Groundhog Day with Gerard Butler*
*as the Groundhog
I like that it took not one, but two people to write Made of Honor. “How about a scene where the guy has to go shopping and makes a face?” “Perfect. Type that fucker up.”
I’d like to see Kaplan and Elfont in a fight to the death with Selzter and Freidberg for the title of best hack duo that ever only did one good movie in their careers.
Brett Ratner can referee.
Just since Vince posted this, I have conceived, begun, and completed a rom-com script about a guy who is secretly dating two women at once. Both happen upon an engagement ring while innocently going through his belongings and assume he is proposing. In fact, he is holding onto it for a friend. Thinking he has been found out as a two-timer, he suffers a panic attack and is sent to the ER. Both women visit and attempt to calm his nerves by saying variations on, “You don’t even have to ask, I will marry you!” Rather than come clean, he proceeds to plan two weddings with two fiancees…how will he get out of this one? Or that one? Find out this Christmas in I Deux!
get this man greenlit asap 30 mil opening weekend
Seltzer and Friedberg made a good movie?
Can we delete Salt’s post so I don’t have to get dragged to this movie in a year by my girlfriend*.
*Let’s just pretend I might have a girlfriend who doesn’t smell like chloroform in a year? Thanks.
The first Scary Movie was pretty good.
I promise you, Jirish, when that movie does get made, I will be suing the shit out of….let’s say Fox, and will spend every penny to prevent future rom-coms.
Or they read this, give me a contract, and you can all fuck yourselves. I’ve already got a sequel half finished, I Deux, Too.
Morty, I’m pretty sure that they’ve already done that plot on an episode of General Hospital.
Or was it the Backyardigans?
Is there any possibility of an I Deux, Trois? (If you get rich and famous off that you at least owe me a handy).
Mine has a twist: The two women were high-school-arch-frenemies.
No, Jirish, you idiotic fuck. The trilogy concludes with I Deux Tu-Tu about the baby born in the second film being a toddler ballerina and the over-competitive dance environment the parents fall prey to.
You’d already have a handy if you’d friended me.
Mort, I’m pretty convinced that if I had the initiative to actually write a screenplay based on any number of fake / facetious / sarcastic / drunken ideas I had, I’d be a quadrillionaire.
LIKE I KNOW HOW TO USE THIS F*ING TECHNOLOGY