Trying to fill two hours of movie with a premise that could barely fill 90 seconds of sketch seems like a really bad idea, but that apparently didn’t stop the project from getting fast tracked. Oh well, I guess it can’t be worse than View-Master. Now Jorma Taccone, the Lonely Islander who co-wrote the sketches, has been hired to direct, and we’ve got a couple tentative cast members and a synopsis.
Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer are in negotiations to star. Will Forte and Kristen Wiig are reprising their roles from the skits.
Forte and Taccone wrote the parodies with John Solomon. The trio wrote the feature script, in which the legendary, much decorated MacGruber is pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador by a colonel, who needs him once more to fight on behalf of his country. This time the mission involves going up against the evil Cunth, who has a nuclear warhead; the mission is personal because Cunth killed MacGruber’s bride. Phillippe would play Piper, an Army officer forced to pair up with a reluctant MacGruber. Kilmer would be Cunth.
“MacGruber” movie is fast-tracked and at this stage looks like it could make it to the screen before a “MacGyver” movie, which is in development at New Line. [THR]
Well I wasn’t so hot on this before but now that I know there’s a bad guy whose name is almost “cunt” I’m sold. On being asked if he’d play the part of Cunth, Kilmer said, “Lunch?”
AGENT: “No, Cunth.”
KILMER: “Lunch?”
*agent slides sandwich across table*
KILMER: “That’s what I thought.”
Franklyn stars Ryan Phillippe as some kind of superhero (or is he???) and from the trailer looks equal parts Watchmen and Dark City. It opens next month in the UK but doesn’t have a US distributor yet.
Esser (Bernard Hill) is a broken man, searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London’s homeless. Milo (Sam Riley) is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia (Eva Green) is a beautiful art student, her suicidal art projects becoming increasingly more complex and deadly. Preest (Phillippe) is a masked vigilante detective, searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City; a monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervour. Esser, Milo, Emilia, Preest- a group of people who couldnt be further apart. Their individual worlds are set for a cataclysmic collision. In an explosive finale, the path of a single bullet will decide the fate of our four lost souls…. [IMDB]
Whoa, I blacked out for a second there. Hey, how’d this eyeliner get on my face? Anyway, I’m glad Philippe will be wearing that crazy mask. Keeps me from getting distracted by those big, pouty lips of his, am I right guys?
This is the trailer for Franklyn, a British Sci-Fi film from first time writer-director Gerald McMorrow. Ryan Phillippe plays the lead role once slated for Ewan McGregor.
Franklyn follows four intertwining stories, three of which take place in contemporary London, the fourth in a parallel fantasy world called Meanwhile City. In Meanwhile City, atheist vigilante Jonathan Preest (Phillippe) fights against the various religious presences. Ultimately, his path crosses with three others (Eva Green, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill) from London.
Looks like it could be interesting, but let’s be honest, the bar’s pretty low for sci fi these days. No army of monkeys? No little kids driving race cars? F-ck it, sign me up. Also - you know you’re a real atheist when you spell your name “preest”.
This is the poster for Stop-Loss (trailer after the jump). A serious movie about a serious issue with a serious director, Boys Don’t Cry’s Kimberly Pierce. Brought to you by the people who brought us How She Move. Oops.
I mean, if you wanna do a message movie, you probably don’t go to MTV, just like you don’t begin a political discussion with, “Your point about the legitimacy of multinational organizations vis a vis transactions conducted under the rubric of the Helsinki protocols is well taken. However, I was watching TRL the other day and…”
Back in Texas after fighting in Iraq, a young Army soldier (Ryan Phillippe) refuses orders to return to the war. Co-starring Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Abbie Cornish, “Stop-Loss” hits theaters on March 28, 2008.
Hey, you know what would really class up this important story about the U.S. Army not honoring its enlistment contracts? That "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" song by Drowning Pool. Nothing says poignant like nü metal. And Drowning Pool? Perfect! They’re like the Candlebox of the Limp Bizkit era!
