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By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (17)

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As great as Danny McBride is, the man hasn’t proven he can open a film on his own, and I seriously doubt his dark, cocksure sense of humor is ever going to crossover into the mainstream in a particularly big way. He was the best part of Pineapple Express and good in Tropic Thunder, and he’ll probably be the best part about Land of the Lost, but I’m not sure he’s cut out for leading man. That’s not going to stop him from trying, of course.

Indeed, Danny McBride has got two potentially big pictures lining up for him. First off, as we’ve reported before, McBride is attached to David Gordon Green’s Your Highness, alongside James Franco. Working from his own script (co-written with Ben Best), McBride will play a lazy, arrogant prince who, with his brother (Franco), must complete a quest to save the kingdom and his brother’s fiancee. Word comes today that Natalie Portman is in negotiations to join the pic. She’ll play a warrior princess with whom the lazy prince falls in love.

Danny McBride and Natalie Portman. That’s sweet. And kind of beyond the pale.

In other McBride related news, Shawn Harwell (aka Ben Best) is also working on adapting the graphic novel, Hench, for McBride. It’s about a football player who suffers a career-ending injury and ends up working as a henchman for a villain. The hope here, according to CHUD, is that Warner Brothers will set up the movie within the DC Comics universe, which would allow them to use supervillians from the DC Comics series. I’m not entirely sure which villain they’d try to use, but the DC Comics world does include folks like Lex Luthor, The Riddler, The Joker, and the rest of the Batman villains, as well as lesser knowns like Cheshire and Deadshot. Anyway: It’s kind of a cool idea and whether it performs well or not, it’ll probably be a decent movie.







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Comments

the james franco part sounds okay, but spare me natalie portman-fucking ugh.

i wish they'd stop screwing with graphic novels- just let them be read for crying out loud.

Posted by: gem at June 1, 2009 3:36 PM

Whats wrong with Natalie Portman?

Posted by: DeistBrawler at June 1, 2009 3:45 PM

Yeah, stop making movies from graphic novels, because there's no benefit in trying to see what new elements can be brought to the story by switching from one medium and its set of strength to another, with its different set of pros and cons.

While you're at it, stop making movies of novels, too. There's no benefit in that, either. For that matter, stop writing novels based on folktales and oral traditions - why do we need a totally different narrative style and way of engaging the material? It doesn't *change* anything.

Yeah, and stop writing stories and making movies and TV shows that are based on real events - you're not improving on the news articles. And TOTALLY stop writing history that weaves together the narrative gleaned from the raw record of events - if I want to feel the tension and excitement of the Revolutionary War, I'll skip David McCullough and just read the muster lists, thank you very much.

Posted by: Landon at June 1, 2009 3:50 PM

Ironically, Landon's comment comes after this:

"Anyway: It’s kind of a cool idea and whether it performs well or not, it’ll probably be a decent movie."

Which is pretty much the nicest I've seen Our Benevolent Pajiban Overlord be ever, let alone with anything to do with comics.

Must be Opposite Day.

Posted by: twig at June 1, 2009 4:01 PM

KENNY FUCKIN' POWERS!

Posted by: henchman for hire at June 1, 2009 4:02 PM

Hench sounds like it has potential...stll if I wanted a henchman movie, I would rather have Nodwick.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 1, 2009 5:02 PM

Episode Five of Eastbound and Down is one of the funniest things in recent memory.

“Kenny Power's days of burning ass are done and that’s not a homosexual reference.”

“This bar smells like an old lady farted piss.”

“Now you’re just, like, a vagina with a mullet.”

“No discount on account of tragedy.”

“Freebasing with O.J, human trafficking, dog fights/orgies.”

Posted by: coltaine at June 1, 2009 5:04 PM

I think graphic novels are a genre which have not been explored and discovered enough so this is refreshing. It encourages more people to read the novels too which is good.

Saying that graphic novels should only be read and left alone is so short sighted. As Landon pointed out, isn't all art an adaptation of some other art and/or real life?

Posted by: barf at June 1, 2009 5:06 PM

wait...no. I'm pretty sure Superman's Marvel and Batman's DC. They could have the villians of one or the other but not both in the same movie universe, I'm pretty sure that would rip a whole in the space-time continuum or something. (and for anyone hoping to out-nerd me by bringing up the Marvel/DC youtube series, I believe there is in fact an episode where Luther creates space-time continuum issues, so there.)

Posted by: s. pisaster at June 1, 2009 5:41 PM

addendum: I meant a HOLE. gah. (and also, just to clarify, in the movie-universe, not the actual universe)

Posted by: s. pisaster at June 1, 2009 5:42 PM

I'm pretty sure Superman's Marvel and Batman's DC.

Um, dear? They are both DC.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 1, 2009 6:45 PM

Danny who? I thought that pic was Travolta from "Pelham 123."

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at June 1, 2009 6:51 PM

Damnit, you're right of course V. The hell am I on today? need more coffee.

Posted by: s. pisaster at June 1, 2009 6:53 PM

natalie portman's overrated, both in the looks dept. and the actressin' dept. and in a comedy with danny mcbride and james franco? she'd be waaay out of her depth.

Posted by: icecreammang at June 1, 2009 11:04 PM

Dustin, how the hell do you know who Cheshire is? I thought you didn't know how to read comics.

Posted by: Lucas at June 2, 2009 10:34 AM

She’ll play a warrior princess with whom the lazy prince falls in love.

I just fell in love with you for that grammatizin'.

Posted by: SaBrina at June 2, 2009 8:59 PM

Natalie Portman? Hooooooooooooooooooooot!

Posted by: Matt at June 22, 2009 9:02 AM


















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