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This Is The Guy Behind The Guy Behind The Guy

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (7)

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You know how two guys can be best friends in high school? Just like fucking peas in a pod, they do everything together, and then their gonna go to college together and get an apartment and they’re gonna fucking tear shit up. I mean, high school is the shit for them, they’re at the top of their game, popular dudes all the ladies want. Life doesn’t get any better than this.

Then they sort of part ways, as people are wont to do, and move on. Then ten years down the road, they bump into each other at a convenience store. Dude A is rocking a Ferrari, driving from party A to party B with a backseat full of beautiful babes, stopping off to get some more condoms, baby lotion, cheese curls and a disposable digital camera. Dude B is living at the trailer park next door, all his hair fell out of his head and into his gut, and he’s microwaving his burrito before going to cash his disability checks.

That’s kind of what it’s gotta be like when Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn see each other these days.

Favreau’s directing Iron Man 2, which is probably going to be the biggest thing since CGI’d bread. While his writing career as sadly petered out, he’s battling Nolan for comic-movie crown. And so he picked for his follow up a project called Cowboys and Aliens, which starts shooting in July, where the gunslingers and injuns join forces in the wild west to take on aliens that have landed. It’s another comic property, and he’s got Robert Downey, Jr. signed on. It sounds very similar to what Peter Berg is planning doing with Battleship — only not fucking retarded.

Meanwhile, Vince Vaughn’s joined forces with Ron Howard on an upcoming “infidelity comedy.” Either he’s a guy who finds out his best friend’s wife is cheating on him, or maybe he’s the one who moves in with the guy who his best friend’s wife is cheating on him with, or does it really matter? The script doesn’t even have a title, because it’s one of the development projects penned by Allen Loeb, that dazzling scribe responsible for such stellar scripts as Things We Lost in the Fire, 21, and the forthcoming Wall Street 2. Loeb’s literally crapping out scripts like A.W.E.S.O.M.O., and of the same quality. Howard’s intent on killing his career at the behest of pudgy, swept-haired leading men in the forefront of increasingly mediocre scripts, and Vaughn will do anything for a cigarette and a Krispy Kreme, so it’s undoubtedly sure to be a smashing success.

I fear the day when Fav’s is draped over Vaughn’s bloated corpse, a comeback script clutched in his hand as he tries to beat Vince’s heart back to life. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.









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Comments

Can they just call it 'Infidelity Comedy'?

Posted by: twig at January 6, 2010 11:47 AM

I'm not sure we can officially declare Favreau the winner by such a huge margin here. Vaughn has had a couple down years quality (though probably not pay check)-wise but he's still an a-list actor with at least 5 movies in development per imdb. I don't think he's exactly sucking down moon pies and RC cola quite yet.

Posted by: Eep at January 6, 2010 11:57 AM

*Door to conveniece store dings at the same moment as microwave*

Dude B: Mark? Mark Davis?
Dude A: Yeah?
Dude B: It's me! It's Jared Miller from Lincoln High School! How ya' been man?!
Dude A: Oh...Ohhhh! Jaredddd...How are you, buddy?
Dude B: I'm really good man. Just got a new tat. Marvin the Martion playing football, just like...
Dude A: ...just like high school, yeeeah. Great. Wow, and you put it on your other calf too.
Dude B: I did.
Dude A: Who would've thought you'd need two of those?
Dude B: Well I always said "Two is..."
Dude A: "Two is better than one." Yeahhhh... right, you did say that.
Dude B: I did, I did. So listen, what're you doin' man? You wanna go rock the Bowling Alley tonight? Tear it up like old times?
Dude A: Uh, y'know I'd love to Jared. I REALLY would, but I got this thing I gotta go to and I really have to get going.
Dude B: Is that your ride out there, man?
Dude A: Uh, yeah, it is.
Dude B: Well holy fucking shit, bro! Look at you! Livin' the dream, man! Livin' the dream!
Dude A: Yeah, listen Jared I gotta go, but we should get lunch sometime. *moves towards door*
Dude B: Alright, man. Well, hey don't you need my number?
Dude A: Um, no -- you should call me. *walks out door*
Dude B: Yeah! Alright man! I'll call ya'!
*chases him out the door and watches him speed off* I'll call you, Mark! *coughs dust out of lungs* *returns to burrito* *goes home to jerk it*

Posted by: superasente at January 6, 2010 11:59 AM

Loeb’s literally crapping out scripts like A.W.E.S.O.M.O., and of the same quality.

Vaughn will do anything for a cigarette and a Krispy Kreme, so it’s undoubtedly sure to be a smashing success.

I fear the day when Fav’s is draped over Vaughn’s bloated corpse, a comeback script clutched in his hand as he tries to beat Vince’s heart back to life. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

It's writing like this that makes me want to be a better writer.

Oh, Prisco. *stifles tears of joy*

Posted by: Jelinas at January 6, 2010 3:12 PM

Since Vaughn did Wedding Crashers, which was a huge hit, he's starred in The Break Up (hit w/Favreau) Into the Wild (small part) Fred Claus (maybe slightly below break even?) Four Christmases (mild hit w/ Favreau) and Couples Retreat (mild hit also starring Favreau.)

Now in terms of quality, the only film with anything to recommend it is probably Into the Wild, but it seems odd to be putting Vince in the trailer park when his box office results have been good. Hollywood cares about box office way more than quality, and Vaughn will continue to get jobs until the financial results are as bad as the creative ones, or until he finds another good part and gets back on track. Favreau's directing franchise definitely puts him in the lead, but there are many many actors who wish they had Vaughn's box office track record over the last few years. The fact that they have worked together so frequently over the past few years indicates, at least to me, that they don't see things this way. It's a cute conceit, but basically what this post amounts to is that Vince Vaughn hasn't made a good movie in five years. Well yes. That's true.

Posted by: Gimpenstein at January 6, 2010 4:37 PM

Ahem. "They're", not "their".

Posted by: j at January 6, 2010 5:49 PM

Your premise is entirely backwards. After Swingers, it was Vaughn who became an instant A-lister, staring in Spielberg movies and leading several other smaller-budget films (like Clay Pigeons). Meanwhile Favreau, who was actually the genius behind Swingers, was relegated to guest staring on Friends. Not until Vaughn started doing rom-coms did his stock decline. At the same time, Favreau was still slugging away behind the camera, which got him the Iron Man gig. Now the their roles are 100% reversed from what they were in 2000. And FYI, they are BOTH disgustingly overweight now.

Posted by: China at July 25, 2010 12:40 AM