TODD PHILLIPS MAKING ‘KENNY POWERS: WEDDING CRASHER’

03.02.10 Written by Vince Mancini

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If you’ve been going through Danny McBride withdrawals for these last three weeks that he hasn’t been in a movie, you’re in luck, because now Kf-ckingP is set to star in The Chadster.  So kiss my ass and suck my dic– *please turn over to side two*

[from PajibaThe Chadster at one time had The Hangover’s Todd Phillips attached to both produce and direct. Phillips has fallen off as director, but he’s still producing the comedy, which is moving ahead with [Eastbound & Down writer Shawn] Harwell as scribe.
The studio wedding comedy, set up at Warner Brothers and produced by Phillips’ Green Hat Films, is about a best man who has his position threatened when an eccentric, long-lost childhood friend shows up at the wedding and causes trouble.
Danny McBride is currently attached to play the eccentric childhood friend.

Like my headline, I think Kenny Powers: Wedding Crasher is the guiding premise.  With Todd Phillips directing, that’d probably be awesome.  With someone else… who knows.  It’s like Judd Apatow: when he directs, you get stuff like Knocked Up.  When he only produces, you might get Superbad, you might get Drillbit Taylor.  Either way, for Kenny Powers’ buddy, I think they should hire this guy:

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(thanks to BDarbs for the tip)

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IF KENNY POWERS WAS A BITCH

05.28.09 Written by Vince Mancini

Jake Kasdan has come on a board to direct Bad Teacher, a script by Office/Year One/Ghostbusters 3 writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg which sounds basically like Eastbound & Down if Kenny Powers had a uterus.

Sold to Columbia pictures last August, the original screenplay concerns a foul-mouthed seventh grade teacher who is dumped by her sugar daddy and starts to pursue a colleague, which provokes conflict with the school’s model teacher. [THR]

[say /Film, who've apparently read it]: Screenplay revolves around Elizabeth Halsey, a teacher with a cussin’ problem who ends up in a bitter rivalry with her squeaky-clean colleague Amy Squirrel. Elizabeth is the sort of girl who wakes up at 3.40 in the afternoon, looks for breakfast in the fridge but finds only packets of ketchup, mustard and soy sauce so turns to her bong instead.

The good news is that the project was on the black list, and actually started with a screenplay, rather than some bonehead pitch by a studio exec (“What if… Kevin James… has to babysit a cat!”).  And Jake Kasdan has been around, last directing Walk Hard, which I thought looked pretty funny.  Then again, I never actually saw it.  So really, I guess it’s kind of like when a hobo asks me for money and I reach in my pocket for some change but then I think, “Ah, f*ck it.”

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