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| Friday, September 9, 2005 11:49 AM |
| Gnus 5: Gnus on the March |
 by Fëanor |
- The Daily Show report on the response to the Katrina disaster is hy-LAIR-ee-oos, as usual. Thanks go to kds for the link.
- Apparently, Brad Pitt is going to play Jesse James in a movie called The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rabert Ford. And here's the picture to prove it. Well, I like Brad Pitt, Jesse James is an interesting fellow, and I dig a good Western, so this looks cool to me. Plus, nice picture. That Brad Pitt is HOT.
- Speaking of hunky guys (and really, what else do I ever talk about on this blog anyway?), here's two more items on hot male stars and their hot projects, courtesy The Movie Blog: first, my man Jason Statham is already set to star in another big action picture. This time he's a poisoned hitman on a rampage in Crank. If that weren't enough already to get me excited, the article also describes the film as "mayhem-driven." Hoo yeah! I could use me some mayhem.
My second hottie is Ewan McGregor, and his new project is The Great Pretender. Ewan will play four (4) roles in the film--a Hollywood legend hired to play Bonnie Prince Charlie in a movie, the look-alike extra who takes the actor's place when he disappears, the actual Prince Charlie himself, and the Prince's double. So this film is set both in 1745, where it covers the "actual" events of Prince Charlie's life during the Jacobite Rebellion, and in 1938, during the filming of the movie about the Rebellion. Sounds like a wacky-fun, multi-layered, postmodern comedy. Awesome!
- An Outkast musical, set in a southern speakeasy during Prohibition, and featuring (besides Big Boi and Andre 3000, of course) Ving Rhames, Patti LaBelle, and Ben Vereen. Dude. Awesome.
- But, of course, not all the news about upcoming films is exciting and good. As a case in point, I present to you Police Academy 8. Yes, the producer in charge of this perpetually stupid and unfunny series is planning an eighth film in which he hopes to have the old cast members show up long enough to pass on the mantle to a group of young newcomers (one of whom, I assume, will be able to create knee-slappingly funny sound effects using only his own mouth) who will carry the franchise forward into Police Academy 9...and beyond. Horrifying, isn't it? I think they should arrest that producer for making terroristic threats. Police Academy movies are cruel instruments of torture and have got to be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions or something.
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