Not many people saw the trailer for What Just Happened the first time I posted it because the studio took it down about five minutes later.  But today it’s back, so here it is again.  Get excited.

Anyway, the story is that Hollywood producer Art Linson wrote a tell-all sort of memoir in which he named names of actors and talked about the problems with specific movies – kind of the way Allan Weisbecker did in some of the excerpts I published here.  So then they made a movie out of the book, only they switched around the stars (Bruce Willis plays himself in the movie, but the scene is based on something Alec Baldwin did on The Edge), and made most of it fictional.

It’s like if WWTDD reported the gossip news like normal, but changed all the celebrity names to imaginary people. Call it a gentle-hitting exposé, or a gumming satire.  

After the jump I’ve got the trailer for What Just Happened, starring Robert DeNiro, based on a memoir by Hollywood producer Art Linson.  As previously reported by WWTDD and AICN, the Bruce Willis scene is supposedly based on something that happened with Alec Baldwin.  AICN will give you just enough of the story to piss you off about them not telling you the whole thing because they’re assholes.

What Just Happened opens in October and also stars Sean Penn, who I’m sure will do a great job of making fun of actors for taking themselves too seriously. 

Righteous Kill is a cop movie; What Just Happened a Barry Levinson-comedy based on the bestselling memoir written by the film’s producer, Art Linson.

What Just Happened? is a winningly sharp comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer — as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job.

I found this news about as interesting as an oatmeal sale, so I tried to spice the posters up a bit.  …And as often happens, failed miserably.  Don’t believe the hype, the magic wand tool isn’t nearly as easy as they make it sound.

[via Cinematical and MTV]