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The Gay One and the Topless One Reunite

Gyllenhaal and Hathaway Do Drugs / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | June 8, 2009 | Comments (10)

You remember the last time that Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway shared the screen? It was Brokeback Mountain, and still, the thought of seeing a topless Hathaway (who I only knew from Princess Diaries at the time) has burned a nice hole of trauma into my brain. Well, they’re reteaming, having just signed on to star in Love and Other Drugs, from director Ed Zwick (Defiance, Blood Diamond).

Love and Other Drugs will be adapted from Jamie Reidy’s memoir, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Charles Randolph (The Interpreter). The book was about the shady practices of the pharmaceutical industry. The script will insert a love story: Gyllenhaal will play a drug saleseman who falls in love with a woman with Parkinson’s (Hathaway). The relationship will play out in the political and social context of the time.

So, it sounds a little like Thank You for Smoking, although I wouldn’t expect much in the way of subversive humor, or any humor at all, as Zwick doesn’t exactly have a nose for it. His resume is full of deadly serious movies (also including The Last Samurai and Legends of the Fall). And if it’s like most of Zwick’s work, it will be almost good, but not quite.


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Comments

What is wrong with Hathaway boobies, boobies is boobies my friend.

Posted by: blah blah blah at June 8, 2009 11:12 AM

Funny how you make a comment about topless Anne Hathaway and the ad that pops up is for season 2 of True Blood. Methinks you stepped onto a secret spoiler...

"Anne Hathaway appears as Vamparella in the season 2 finale, only to be defeated by Anna Paquin's lucious lips. Cue makeout scene and bloodletting/getting it on."

What? Like none of YOU thought the same thing!

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at June 8, 2009 11:13 AM

What? Like none of YOU thought the same thing!

Well, I am NOW!

Posted by: Vermillion at June 8, 2009 11:24 AM

If it's anything like Thank You For Smoking it would be awesome. That film was aces: hilarious and made you think.

Hathaway topless sounds like a pretty good idea. Bring it on.

Posted by: barf at June 8, 2009 11:25 AM

The script will insert a love story

Danger. Danger, Will Robinson.

Posted by: twig at June 8, 2009 11:33 AM

I totally agree with the almost good but not quite sentiment plaguing this guy's work. Often times, almost very good movies piss me off more than objectively terrible movies because i know how close they could have been to being excellent.What is funny is that thank you for smoking, for me, falls into the category of fix these 3 things and it would be a flawless story. Cough, katie holmes.

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at June 8, 2009 11:38 AM

What is wrong with Hathaway boobies

Not a thing.

Posted by: Jay at June 8, 2009 2:22 PM

I hope they handle the Parkinsons angle properly, but otherwise I'm so there. And if it turns out to suck, there's always the mute button and replay key. Does this mean Anne Hath has waived her no-nudity vow/clause, because if so, this is a happy day! If not, that sound you hear is the crushing of my dreams. Again.

Posted by: lordhelmet at June 8, 2009 3:02 PM

So you don't like Anne Hathaway's boobs, but you are obsessed with Ryan Reynold's abs...

Posted by: henchman for hire at June 8, 2009 4:01 PM

Might I direct you gentlemen to a choice scene from the movie, nay, FILM Havoc? Spank you very much.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at June 8, 2009 5:41 PM





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