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By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (4)

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I can’t think of a more perfect pairing than Todd Solondz and Christopher Walken - how have these two not gotten together before? Matter of fact, if Walken ever does the film version of “The Continental” (in which he’s expressed interest), I think the perfect director has landed in his lap. Meanwhile we’ll have to content ourselves with the sheer peanut-butter-cuppiness of this pairing in Solondz’s new film, Dark Horse. Walken and Mia Farrow play the parents of 30-something Abe (Jordan Gelber), who still lives with them and spends his time playing games and collecting toys. Abe’s girlfriend Miranda (Selma Blair) is another loser, 30-year-old living at home until Abe decides he’s going to make something of himself by marrying her; just when he thinks things are beginning to go right, everything goes “horribly wrong”.

From this description all I can tell you is that I could give a shit about Abe and Miranda; all I want to see is Christopher Walken being the kind of hysterically funny, asshole father we all know he could be - or perhaps with Mia Farrow, just a completely loony-tunes version of Seinfeld’s parents. One thing we won’t have to worry about though (at least in this particular film) are some of Solondz’s usual cringe-inducing, should-I-laugh-or-not themes. Of his talent agency’s happiness after reading the script Solondz said, “It’s funny, it’s the first time they actually like one of my scripts and I realized [in “Dark Horse”], there’s no rape, there’s no child molestation, there’s no masturbation, and then I thought, ‘omg, why didn’t I think of this years ago?’”

Hmm, maybe he can get Walken back for The Continental: His Dark Side.









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Comments

I like Solondz and have - uncomfortably - enjoyed his movies.
I like this pairing and look forward to seeing it.

Posted by: Spender at October 17, 2010 7:51 PM

Only tenuously related to this post - the Department I work in is undergoing 'changes', implemented by a group of higher-ups. They've fired the head of our department and hired a consultant (shudder with me, people) to sort out issues we never knew we had until they, you know, fired the head and hired a consultant.
Realising this has caused some (ahem) concerns, they brought in the man who instigated the whole thing, you know, to speak to us and give us an idea of his plans.
He looks EXACTLY like Christopher Walken.

Before, I was only worried the department was about to be clumsily disbanded. Now I'm shit scared that I'm about to be ritually murdered. Or find out that my pipettes were shoved up someone's arse in 'Nam.

Posted by: ScienceGeek at October 17, 2010 9:45 PM

The champagna you have thrown in mah face esting-es mah eyes.

Posted by: Brenton at October 17, 2010 10:27 PM

Oh crap. For a moment I thought this was called Bad Horse, and I really got excited.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 18, 2010 9:06 AM