(Sure, Party Dog goes to male strip clubs. It’s a great place to meet horny bitches.)

Channing Tatum was recently off promoting his latest movie, Mumbles the Wigger, when the interviewer asked him about that stripper video of his that’s been floating around.  Much as I love ripping on the guy, he was actually pretty cool about it.

“It’s absolutely true,” Tatum, now 29, laughs. “I did it for almost a year. I’ve lived a crazy life, for sure.
“It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time and I got out unscathed. It’s nothing I’m ashamed of and I’m not proud of it either. I wanted to talk about it in the beginning of my career but my publicist wouldn’t let me.”
Tatum says he has so much material that could be used as background, he plans to make a film about a male stripper.
“I’ve already got the director picked out. I’d like Nicolas Refn, who did the movie Bronson, to do it because he’s insane for it,” he says.
“It needs to be a crazy film and I think it’s also possible to do a cute, romantic movie.”  [SydneyMorningHerald]

In all seriousness, that sounds like a way better idea than anything he’s been in so far.  I like the semi-autobiographical angle, like Funny People with guys swinging their wieners around or whatever male strippers do. Imagine the drama when the aging veteran top-dog male stripper becomes threatened by the brash newcomer with all the slick moves.  “You’re not fit to wash my cock pouch!” I imagine him yelling.  But then maybe later they find out that they’re not so different after all.

“Whoa.”

Universal is developing a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie, a project which requires above all else a lead with some versatility. Naturally they chose Keanu Reeves.

Universal is developing a modern retelling of the classic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” with Keanu Reeves attached to star and Justin Haythe, writer of “Revolutionary Road,” penning the script. Nicolas Winding Refn [writer/director of Bronson] is in negotiations to direct the project, titled “Jekyll.” [THR]

In the original story, Dr. Jekyll invents potion that brings out a different personality when he drinks it.  Sources at Universal say the biggest challenge they face in development will be creating the potion and getting it to work.

Below I have the new trailer for the Charlie Bronson movie.  No, not the Charlie Bronson, the other one.  This Charlie Bronson is “the most violent prisoner in Britain”, a guy who was originally sentenced to seven years in 1974 for armed robbery after stealing $43, then spent the next 30 out of 35 years in prison in solitary confinement (because he was so violent, lol!).  Synopsis:

With twisted imagery, the music of Wagner and Pet Shop Boys, and a stunning performance by Tom Hardy, [Director Nicolas] Refn creates an aesthetic that is both complicit in Charlie’s violence but also theatrical. Charlie narrates his own story before an audience, and the movie is just an extension of this burlesque staging. Our moral compass reeling, we’re tempted to see him as an animal, but violence is simply the fullest expression of his identity. Overjoyed by his fame and ever-increasing capacity for harm, Charlie walks the cellblock beaming with pride. He has become somebody. He is—quite terrifyingly—the hero of his own story. [Twitch]

Nice synopsis. My moral compass often reels, but only because it doubles as a fishing pole – they say I have a Swiss-army conscience.  Also, when you say “burlesque staging”, does that mean, like, pasties on his cock?  Anyway, Bronson opens in the UK March 13th and at Sundance this month.  And if it’s as much a complicit aesthetic burlesque as they say, I’m sure we won’t have to wait long for the US release.
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