web
counter
 

Maybe Bruce Willis Will Do The Theme Song

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (11)



boardwalk_bus.jpg

So it’s apparently the week for news on new shows from HBO.

Late in 2008 rumors started circulating of a Martin Scorsese deal with HBO to direct a pilot based on Nelson Johnson’s book Boardwalk Empire, a history of the rise of Atlantic City during the years of Prohibition during the 1920s. The easy comparison is that it’s “The Sopranos” set eighty years earlier. Steve Buscemi signed on as the lead, and Michael K. Williams (Omar from “The Wire”) also snagged a role. Well, HBO has decided to pick up a full season order of 12 episodes, including the pilot, which is now in production. The show is slated for a 2010 airing.

Scorsese is not technically signed on to do anything more than direct the pilot and one other episode, although the studio insists that he will be creatively involved.

And now, apropos of nothing, Bruce Willis singing Under the Boardwalk.










Big Momma's House 3 in Development | Airplane Movies













Comments

Hahahaha, oh Bruce Willis.

And this is already sounding really promising.

Posted by: Marcela at September 3, 2009 8:19 PM

I am not listening to that.

Laura Dern just got an HBO gig too. Something about enlightenment.

Posted by: Cindy at September 3, 2009 9:14 PM

Is he really singing that? He sounds pretty good...

Posted by: dene at September 3, 2009 9:28 PM

Gee! I’m surprised HBO, you mean after “The Sopranos” “The Wire” "Cathouse" and “Deadwood” people didn’t stick around to watch the ground breaking “Flight of the Conchords?” Listen HBO I've told you a thousand times people tune in to watch dope, pussy, or money not no two half of fags singing songs.

Posted by: Guess Who! at September 3, 2009 9:32 PM

I dig it, I dig it.

Posted by: Sapphiar at September 3, 2009 9:58 PM

Awww. Bruce Willis has such a pleasant voice.

Posted by: kelsy at September 3, 2009 10:48 PM

OMAR!

OOMAAAAAR!!!

*sigh*

Posted by: Jerce at September 3, 2009 10:51 PM

Get 'Return of Bruno' and get it now. Trust me on this.

Posted by: stryker1121 at September 3, 2009 11:47 PM

Bruce is soooooooooo lipsynching to that song.

He has to jump in and start singing before he's done talking. And he's talking loud, but suddenly he's singing really soft. And the ass should have worn a suit. Amateur.

Posted by: BWeaves at September 4, 2009 9:25 AM

Whoa! I've got family in that book...

can I meet Omar now???

Posted by: pegling at September 5, 2009 3:11 AM

God in heaven, Bruce Willis sounds like every drunk office worker who starred in Grease in high school and secretly curses the music industry for not discovering him when he was young and good lookin'.

Who else felt like the Temps were subtly mocking him?

And who else noticed the incredible moment where the camera angle superimposed Bruce over the Temps and highlighted perfectly Bruce's white-guy dance?

Posted by: Ling at September 6, 2009 4:26 PM


















Viral Hits

>> Pajiba Movie Posters

>> Pop Culture's 20 Greatest Dancing GIFs

>> Mindhole Blowers

>> The 100 Greatest Insults of All Time

>> The "Other" 100 Greatest Movie Quotes

>> The 100 Greatest Movie Threats of All Time

>> The Sean Bean Death Reel

>> Chicks Dig Beards: It's Science

>> The Coolest TV Show Title Sequences

>> The Most Rewatchable Movies

>> The Most Expensive Movies of All Time