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Another Video Game Movie, Pacino as Napoleon, and Everyone Poops!

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (27)

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Here’s the day’s remainders:

First up, HBO announced today that it would be renewing Danny McBride’s “Eastbound and Down” for another season. I’d feared, after reviewing the pilot episode, that they’d be unable to keep the momentum for the entire season. Fortunately, it was only six episodes, so they didn’t have to carry it too long. But it worked. It was an insanely, darkly comic show. Mean-spirited, sinister, and hilarious. I hope they stick with the six-episode order in season two. Production is expected to begin in the fall.

Days after it was announced that Jackie Early Hayley would be taking over Freddy Krueger’s role in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, Kyle Gallner (“Veronica Mars’” Cassidy Casablancas) has also been added to the cast. He’ll play an “indie-style guy” who runs the high-school’s podcast, “Insomnia Radio.” A podcast? Gallner will play Johnny Depp’s role in the original movie.

One of the video games mentioned several times in today’s comment diversion on the best video games of all time was a game called Shadows of Colussus. Well, now it’s being made into a movie. Sony has optioned the property, and for anyone that had any hope that it might someday be made into a decent flick, give that hope up now. Justin Marks has been given the task of writing the script. Marks’ most notable achievement in life so far is the script for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. It’s nothing he should be proud of.

Elsewhere, Al Pacino has signed on to play Napoleon Bonaparte in a movie based on Betsy and the Emperor, a children’s book by Stanton Rabin. The movie is about Napoleon’s last days and his relationship with a young girl. John Curran (The Painted Veil) will direct.

Finally, here’s a pretty spectacular video spoof of the Where the Wild Things Are trailer: A trailer for a Spike Jonze directed adaptation of “Everyone Poops.” It’s true, too. Everyone does poop. Tell all your friends.

(Thanks Redbeaniegirl).









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Comments

“indie-style guy” = Epic Tool

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 8, 2009 9:36 PM

Even for barrel scrapings, that's some fairly uninteresting stuff. Congratulations on not falling asleep halfway through the writing of it. I don't know how you keep going sometimes.
One question though, is "Eastbound and Down" worth the trouble of downloading?

Posted by: Chugga at April 8, 2009 9:39 PM

I am a SEXY and HOT black girl from New yOrK,
someday I found a H -O- T- place for u guys, ____T allmeet Co
M____ , if you want- know more big fri-ends,even l-over,
please have a try !

Posted by: yx at April 8, 2009 10:15 PM

SotC is a movie! Fuck you Hollywood! You will never be able to portray visually the love I had for Agro! Fuck you! Fuck you to hell!

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at April 8, 2009 10:24 PM

I saw Everyone Poops the first time in my undergrad university's bookstore. I honestly thought it was some sort of frat joke snuck onto the shelves until my roomie and I read it right there and realized it was really a real book. I'm not sure I ever cried laughing that hard previously.
Does Freddy Krueger poop? If so, does it come out all crispy?

Posted by: osmate77 at April 8, 2009 10:29 PM

Chugga- In my opinion, "Eastbound and Down" is most definitely worth the hassle of downloading.

Posted by: battgirl at April 8, 2009 10:35 PM

The little pooper is named Amanda. Out of all the gin joints in all the websites of all the names to pick for the pooping girl...they had to pick mine.

Posted by: kidtiger at April 8, 2009 10:38 PM

I just watched that damn thing twice in a row. I was rolling on the floor! Now Spike Jonze needs to do a book out of that puberty book for kids, "It's Perfectly Normal" then I could laugh till the cows come home.

Posted by: Kamikaze Feminist at April 8, 2009 10:51 PM

Justin Marks has been given the task of writing the script.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: twig at April 8, 2009 11:05 PM

"One of the video games mentioned several times in today’s comment diversion on the best video games of all time was a game called Shadows of Colussus."

It's Shadow of the Colossus, one of the best games I've ever played ruined by Hollywood; it seems it wasn't enough to ruin famous sagas like Resident Evil or Street Fighter, now they are messing with truly good games, this is the worst news I've had this week.

Posted by: Radlum at April 8, 2009 11:11 PM

i just keep hearing michael stipe, "ev-rybody poops...sometimes"...

Posted by: gp at April 8, 2009 11:13 PM

Now I really want to watch that video. Damn my university for not loading sound drivers on the lab computers specifically to prevent me from watching embedded video. Damn them to hell!

Posted by: Chugga at April 8, 2009 11:14 PM

Seriously on the Napolean thing? That has been rumoured since 2000 and come and gone on IMDB about 5 times. Mr. My Name Is for My Friends wrote a previously optioned script for the film way back in 2002. Michael Radford had been slated to direct it in 2005. After 6 months, Pacino walked away. As is his habit.

Posted by: My Name Is for My Friends at April 8, 2009 11:16 PM

Do amoebae poop?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 8, 2009 11:41 PM

Does Mr. Hankey poop?

Posted by: darkdefender at April 9, 2009 12:34 AM

The spambots are really getting excited, aren't they? They get higher and higher up in the comments every time I sign on.

Have we had a "First -- meet sexy!!!! s.i.n.g.l.e.s. alwayzz XXX" yet?

Posted by: dsbs at April 9, 2009 12:42 AM

I spit all over my monitor when the little girl was dancing with the toilet seats and brushes.

Posted by: iheartlasagne at April 9, 2009 1:13 AM

I so wish that "Everyone Poops" spoof was real. That would make my day. It would also set up the franchise for the sequels "Everyone Poops But You" and "You're a Naughty Child and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You."

Sorry, I had to. Somebody had to.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at April 9, 2009 2:40 AM

Eastbound and Down is fan-fucking-tastic.

KENNY FUCKIN' POWERS!

Posted by: dave at April 9, 2009 8:30 AM

After 6 months, Pacino walked away. As is his habit.

Unless your name is Jon Avnet...then he's your bitch and you can get him to do demeaning pictures involving horribly underbaked scripts. If you're lucky, he'll bring fellow "Brotherhood of the Paycheck" members like Brian Denahey and Robert DeNiro, and you'll have yourself a go (fuck yourself) picture!

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at April 9, 2009 9:50 AM

What a shitty trailer! (I'm really surprised nobody went there yet.)

AnnArrogance: I'm sorry but the sequel is obviously "Everybody Poops: In My Pants."

Posted by: BWeaves at April 9, 2009 10:08 AM

Better YOUR pants than mine.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 9, 2009 10:25 AM

Has anyone else ever wondered why there is a picture of an apple on the cover of Everyone Poops? Look at it - there's a little boy, a horse's ass, a goose, and an apple. An apple? I'm no biologist (I only got three years into that degree before changing my mind, heh), but I'm pretty sure apples don't poop.

Posted by: Kolby at April 9, 2009 1:54 PM

Kolby: Poop is also known as "Road apples."

Posted by: BWeaves at April 9, 2009 4:20 PM

Eastbound and Down was pretty awesome. The only week link I think was Will Ferrell's character. On the plus side, the Shawn Lee song at the end of the six episode was amazing.

Posted by: grinder at April 9, 2009 4:22 PM

Bloody Hell! You're serious about Shadow of the Colossus?

Shitdamnfuckpisscunt...WHAT WERE THE OTHERS DAMMIT!?!

Posted by: Four Eyes at April 10, 2009 2:42 AM

My mom got my kids a book, 'The Long Journey of Mr. Poop' and it features an apple too!

By the way, please tell me that at some point, poo fascination and fart jokes get old. I'm waiting patiently.

Posted by: replica at April 10, 2009 3:31 AM