It’s only been a few days since the Earth literally shattered with the news of a theatrical American Pie sequel.  Recently, the press caught up with Seann William Scott to ask him about it, mainly because he’s the only member of the American Pie cast anyone remembers.

“I’ve been talking to them about it and there’s a possibility,” he told us. “We came up with an awesome idea and I’m kind of at the point where I’m already known as that character forever anyways. As much as I want to do a part like Christoph Waltz in ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ I did ‘American Pie’ three times and then versions of that in ten other movies. If it makes sense and if it makes people laugh than maybe.”

New York Times headline in 70-point font: “STIFLER SAYS ‘MAYBE’ TO AMERICAN PIE SEQUEL!”  Someday we’ll remember this day like my generation’s Kennedy assassination.  Meanwhile, Scott says Kevin Smith has also asked him to play the lead in Hit Somebody, his proposed hockey film.

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As first broken by Bloody-Disgusting, Dimension films has bought the rights to John Landis’ 1981 classic, An American Werewolf in London. (Landis also directed Animal House, Three Amigos, and Coming to America, among other things).

Landis wrote and directed the comedy-horror film, which starred David Naughton and Griffin Dunne as two American backpackers hiking in the Yorkshire moors attacked by a mysterious animal who turns out to be a werewolf. Naughton ends up terrorizing London while Dunne is a reanimated corpse suggesting ways for Naughton to kill himself and stop the curse.  No writer or director is on board but Dimension and the producers hope to make an elevated genre picture that will keep the fun comedy elements of the original as it seeks to be relevant to contemporary audiences [that's business jargon for "we hope it's good" -Ed.]. [THR]

Okay, nerds, set phasers to “incredulous,” because I’ve never seen the original.  (*hold for angry shouts of derision*).   So if nothing else, this is a good reminder to add it to the Netflix queue.  As for the remake, I’m crossing my fingers that it involves Zac Efron, Parkour, and Linkin Park.  Wait, Linkin Parkour? I just had a totally xtreme idea…

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