In yet more new movie trailer news, IGN has debuted the red-band trailer for Your Highness, the medieval stoner epic from David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and Ben Best (basically the creative team from Eastbound and Down).  It stars James Franco and Natalie Portman, whose graduation from earnest-but-slightly-pretentious smartypants who cares about important world issues to just-because-I-care-about-world-issues-doesn’t mean I can’t act like one of the guys continues.  I’d suggest enjoying this phase as much as we can before the eventual transition to “suburban yuppie.”  Trust me, man, I know these college chicks.

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I’ve made no secret of my love of Zoolander.  At the very least, it allows me to pretend liking “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” is purely ironic and cool.  What? Oh right, next you’ll tell me Queen is gay. Anyway, as such it’s with a happy smile and buttered asshole that I report Tropic Thunder writer Justin Theroux is in negotiations to write and direct a Zoolander sequel.

Ben and Justin are working on the script together, and Theroux is going to Fashion Week in Paris to “immerse himself on what is current in fashion”. ”It’s got momentum,” a studio source just told me. Everyone’s hoping Owen Wilson co-stars again but no deal is set. The villain likely will be Jonah Hill who’s in negotiations. [DeadlineHollywood]

I hope Owen Wilson isn’t too busy Kate Hudsoning his career with Marmaduke, that Farrelly Brothers’ movie, and Little Fockers to be in this.  The concept just doesn’t work as well without two dudes with jacked up noses being male models.  No one wants to see actual male models, that would be gay. (Hint, hint, Captain America). Read the rest of this entry »

There are a few stories going around today, but most of them aren’t worth more than a couple sentences.

“The long-gestating Lance Armstrong biopic has brought on a writer well-versed in sports comeback stories and could shoot as early as next year.”  Execs described the project as “like Seabiscuit with nut cancer.” |THR|

Fred Durst says Obama was created by the Jews or something.  |ContactMusic (notorious liars, btw)|

Here’s Linkin Park’s new single from the Transformers 2 soundtrack.  The video features a guy rocking out while manning a mixing board, which should tell you everything you need to know about Linkin Park. |MySpace|

Rosebud was a black chick. Tyler Perry’s new movie, I Can Do Bad All by Myself has a new poster. I’m gonna be pissed if I wake up one day and find out Tyler Perry’s movies had a map to the treasure in them. |MSN|

Iron Man writer Justin Theroux is set to direct Chief Ron, about blue-eyed dude who fought to build an Indian casino in New York.  Hopefully he gets Kurt Russell to star.  Captain Ron, Chief Ron – just a couple more before he fulfills the Village People cycle.  It’s every actor’s dream. |Variety|

Wall-E director Andrew Stanton is set to begin shooting his live-action John Carter Goes to Mars in Utah this November.  People in Utah are excited, but Mormons get excited about anything.  |KLS|

Amy Poehler will produce and star in Lunch Lady, based on a graphic novel about a crime-fighting lunch lady.  A crime-fighting lunch lady with a blonde vagina.  |THR|

A porn actress was diagnosed with HIV, leading some health officials to demand pornstars wear condoms all the time.  Sure, buddy, and maybe I’ll start jerking off with a dish glove while we’re at it. |LATimes|

Joss Whedon says he was approached about the reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but wasn’t interested.  That’s makes two of us, broheim.  |EW|

Just a day after becoming part of The Expendables supercast, Mickey Rourke, along with awesomely hungover-looking Choke star Sam Rockwell, is in talks to play a villain in Iron Man 2.  Sadly, Rourke won’t be playing Clayface, which would’ve been the obvious choice.

Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.  Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, AKA Iron Man, being played by a returning Robert Downey Jr. [THR]

Hmm, “coils”?  Gonna have to be more specific.  I don’t know if he wants to refrigerate me, electrocute me, or take some sort of super-powered robo-dump.  According to Wiki there are a couple Marvel characters known as Whiplash, but it would seem Rourke will play this one:

Courtesy of Justin Hammer, Blacklash wields a pair of cybernetically-controlled titanium whips that can extend to be swung fast enough to deflect bullets, or become rigid and be used as nunchaku or vaulting-poles. Blacklash also carries a variety of devices in a weapons pouch, including anti-gravity bolas and a necro-lash which releases electrical energy generated by his gauntlets.

My weapons pouch is assless and made of cheetah skin.  I keep my balls in it.

When Marvel abruptly announced they were replacing Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle in the Iron Man sequel, they offered little explanation.  Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that part of the reason was that Howard had been the first to sign on for Iron Man and had been the highest paid cast member (yup, even more than Downey), despite his relatively small role, and refused to renegotiate his contract.  The other reason was that no one liked his performance that much.

According to one source, Favreau and his producers spent a lot of time cutting and reshooting his scenes.  As such, when Favreau and screenwriter Justin Theroux went to map out the sequel they found themselves minimizing Howard’s story line. Once Marvel learned that Favreau was thinking of curtailing the role, the studio went to the actor’s agents with a new and drastically reduced offer — a number that’s similar to what supporting cast members were paid for the first movie. The agents, according to sources, were so taken aback by this new figure — estimated at somewhere between a 50 and 80 percent pay cut — that they questioned it.

It’s unclear whether Howard’s team walked away first, or if Marvel ended the discussion at that point.

FilmDrunk’s inside sources say another sticking point was that Howard hoped to communicate all of his lines through interpretive dance.  Reached for comment, Howard snapped his fingers for 27 straight minutes and made bass noises with his mouth.