Don’t get me wrong, Anna Faris is an attractive woman I would love to take for a van ride some time. But it’s starting to seem like her agent might be functionally illiterate, or an actual porpoise. Faris has two prospective projects in the trades today. The first is TMI with Ryan Reynolds at Universal. OMG, U. optioned TMI? LOL!
Scripted by Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Marc Klein, the comic premise is that while honesty is the best policy for a relationship, [*RECORD SCRATCH*] “too much information” might not be the best thing. Andrew Panay (”Old Dogs”) will produce. [Woof.]
Believe it or not, that’s the better-sounding one.
Anna Faris is in negotiations to star as Robin Williams’ daughter in “Wedding Banned,” a romantic comedy for Touchstone. “Banned” revolves around a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter (Faris) on her wedding day to prevent her from making the same mistakes they did. The parents rekindle their relationship as they elude cops and the angry groom.
That one comes from the writers of Raising Helen and The Shaggy Dog, by the way. HERE, ANNA, READ THIS. IT’S BY THE GUY WHO WROTE THE MOVIE WHERE TIM ALLEN TURNS INTO A DOG. How does that guy still have a job? She must be insanely nice. I’m driving to her house right now.
(Wolverine gets super pissed when you suggest wearing sleeves. It’s already a sore subject for his posse.)
Unlike most of the other Marvel properties, Fox still owns the rights to X-Men. And, as I often say of your mother, that’s a cow dey gon’ milk. Empire recently caught up with producer Lauren Shuler Donner to get a status update on all the planned X-Men spinoffs, including Wolverine 2, Deadpool, X-Men First Class, Magneto, and xXx-Men: Marvel goes Diesel. Just kidding about that last one, but this is Fox we’re talking, don’t be surprised.
On Wolverine 2:
“That’s the furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil. It’s actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story first. This movie will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan.
And we wanted an A+ writer, so we want to Chris McQuarrie (Valkyrie, The Usual Suspects). He came in and has tightened the story and got really immersed in the whole thing - he’s in Japan in his head!
Donner added, “He keeps rubbing up against women on the subway, and the other day he tried to buy my daughter’s panties. Someone’s gonna have to talk to the guy.”
According to Harry Knowles over at AintitCoolIcan’tSpell, Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen’s Rorschach) is “on the list” to play “Sinestro” in “the Green Lantern movie.” (*air quotes*)
I’m putting this in the caveat as a rumor [??] - as opposed to a rock solid, take it to the bank story. Right now, Martin Campbell is in the process of finalizing the rest of the cast for GREEN LANTERN to surround Ryan Reynolds with. And I’m not sure why, but I’ve just hit the point where I’m giddy and hopeful about a GREEN LANTERN movie. This story came from someone working on the film. That part is solid, what isn’t - and won’t be till it all gets finalized is the fact that JACKIE EARLE HALEY is leading the list to play SINESTRO!!!
Meanwhile, Collider talked to Jackie Earle Haley himself about it, and Haley says he hasn’t heard anything. He also denied ever screen testing for the movie, and didn’t bite anyone’s face or anything, it was really pretty disappointing. Oh yeah, so Sinestro: Read the rest of this entry »
A lot of mainstream films are shot in Australia (Where the Wild Things Are, Knowing, Wolverine, just to name a few from 2009) because of the favorable exchange rate. But the Australian dollar, which was worth about 55 cents when I lived there in 2003, closed at 95 cents on Friday, and some say could hit $1.10 by next year. And all because of a secret coalition of Jew bankers. WB had planned to shoot The Green Lantern in Sydney, but now they’re pulling out after the dollar dropped 30% just in the six months since the production was planned.
The NSW government announced in April it had secured the “Green Lantern” shoot at Fox Studios and production was to have started in November. Martin Campbell (”Casino Royale”) is set to direct Ryan Reynolds (”The Proposal”) in the big screen comic book adaptation, which is set for a summer 2011 release. Industry sources here suggest “Green Lantern” will move to Mexico or Canada. [THR]
So what does this mean for you the moviegoer? Nothing, really. I just thought you guys should know. I didn’t want you to hear it from someone else. Reached for comment, Paul Hogan pointed to Mexico on a map and said, “That’s not a movie studio, THAT’s a movie studio,” pointing at Australia. When I pointed out that both were just places on a map and not movie studios at all, he just cut off a slice of the salami he was holding and put it in his mouth and started chewing, staring right at me. It was as if he hadn’t heard me at all.
It seems like every script deal these days involves a concept that could be fully explained in a photoshop or tagline. You think that’s ’cause people are stupider nowadays? What was I talking about again?
Working Title paid high six figures against seven figures [that means high six figures for the script, seven figures if they make the movie] for an untitled concept comedy that Allan Loeb will write as a star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds.
Pic is described as a dude-in-drag romantic comedy, with Reynolds playing a jilted lover who must disguise himself as a woman and befriend his ex in order to win her back. [Variety]
Are you sh-tting me? I realize the pitch was only worth that much because Ryan Reynolds was attached, but good lord, it’s not even a script yet. He sold them on an idea that’s basically already been done better in hastily thrown-together South Park episodes. I’ve seen better ideas in the comments section of this blog YouTube. After this, Ryan Reynolds will have done a dressing-in-drag movie AND a fat suit movie. All he has to do now is play a retard and a Holocaust survivor to complete Hollywood’s version of hitting for the cycle.
