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Your Chance to Get in the Hot Tub with John Cusack

Hot in the Hot Tub! / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | February 24, 2009 | Comments (20)

I don’t know how to make this small item interesting, but the cast and premise is such that it needs to be mentioned here. The movie in the works is titled, Hot Tub Time Machine and, at least according to the folks over at Cinematical, the script — written by newcomer Josh Heald — has been a hot property for a while now. It gets mentioned here because of the comedy’s cast. So far, John Cusack and Rob Corddry have been attached, and Craig Robinson (“The Office, ” Zack and Miri) and Clark Duke are in negotiations.

The premise is interesting, mostly because it’s not the sort of comedy you’d ever expect Cusack to show up in. It’s about a group of friends who get together at a ski lodge, get in the hot tub, and travel back in time 20 years to a time when men had a better shot with the womenfolk. Sean Anders (Sex Drive) had been attached as director, but now that Cusack is in, it looks like Cusack’s longtime partner, Steve Pink (who co-wrote High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank and directed Accepted) has taken over the director’s chair.

Consider yourself informed.


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Comments

Not expect Cusack to show up in? Are you kidding? This is the guy who started his career with The Sure Thing and Better Off Dead. Seems to me that now that they rom-com well has dried up he has slinked back to the genre that will still pay him. It was inevitable, really.

Posted by: ed newman at February 24, 2009 11:16 AM

Its hot!
Its wet!
Makes me hot!
Makes me sweat!
HUH!
James Brown Hot Tub Party!!!!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at February 24, 2009 11:27 AM

WELL, WELL, WELL...........


"The bed that eats people" makes a bit more sense, actually. It was easier for me to get a girlfriend twenty years ago, but that's just what happens in drama club, I don't think it had anything to do with the times. Hmm.

Posted by: Jay at February 24, 2009 11:32 AM

Hmm! My friends (male and female) were just commenting the other day about how easy it is for a man to get a great woman post-35 because there appears to be a surplus of single women, many of whom are desperate to be in a relationship and/or "find someone" (whatever that means) plus the first batch of divorcees who are looking for a new man. Most of us could name guys who would never have stood a chance five years ago who are now very much over-dating.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 24, 2009 11:49 AM

I think it sounds great. In my opinion, if you can do black comedy effectively-as Cusack can- then regular comedy is a piece of cake.
I'm glad Steve Pink is directing. That sounds encouraging.
What is really unusual about this is the possibility of John Cusack in less gear than a black suit/spagetti tie. If you think about it, even in 1408, he was in a black wetsuit.
It's an unusual choice, but he is very funny.
I will go see it.
And you wrote:"I don't know how to make this small item interesting"

Don't worry, anything to do with John Cusack is always interesting.

Posted by: Pepper at February 24, 2009 11:52 AM

What advice do you have for me, Paddy, me?

Posted by: Jay at February 24, 2009 11:52 AM

No one else thinks that this is just a chance for Cusack to revisit the 80's (specifically 1989)?

Come on, John. You said it yourself, "You used to be fun. You used to be warped and twisted and hilarious...and I mean that in the best way."

Posted by: branded at February 24, 2009 12:06 PM

branded, you cold as ice!

Posted by: Jay at February 24, 2009 12:08 PM

Jay: If you are willing to move to Chicago or Dublin (Ireland not Ohio) I could set you up in an instant. Of course the women I have in mind would want to go to a lot of local music gigs as well as the obligatory Echo and the Bunnymen tour and the late night showing of the Joe Strummer bio movie at the Music Box with discussion afterwards with the local NPR music critics, so you're probably not interested, right?

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 24, 2009 12:14 PM

Oh dammitjanet, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways:

1. I would show you but other people are around.

Posted by: admin at February 24, 2009 12:20 PM

For Christ sake Rowles, will you come out already and spare us all of this tiresome innuendo!

Posted by: Pookie at February 24, 2009 12:28 PM

Well, I will be in Chicago for a week in July, but I'd probably rather live in Ireland. Dublin doesn't get the really hot Augusts, right?

And no, I don't think I'd want to visit OCLC headquarters. You get the feeling it's powered by a forsaken child (or at least part of one) and you'd probably get thrown into a black hole or something. They're scary.

Posted by: Jay at February 24, 2009 12:41 PM

OK, for all that Paddy, I'll leave home and date the women.

Posted by: Cindy at February 24, 2009 12:43 PM

Cusack is teh sexy, and Jay is picky. That's pretty much all I've got for this one.

Is Grosse Pointe Blank going to be an Underappreciated Gem at some point? I feel as though it should be.

Posted by: Nicole at February 24, 2009 1:26 PM

Yes, I'm picky, but I can't help it. I just mesh with very few people. It's kind of annoying.

Actually it's very annoying.

(not that everybody's trying to be my baby, of course)

But in what sense would "Grosse Pointe Blank" be underappreciated though? I think I'm the only person here who's only seen it once.

Posted by: Jay at February 24, 2009 1:35 PM

Keep it up and I'll move Hotlanta and try to be your baby.

I don't think that it's underappreciated here, just in the world in general. And why have you only seen it once? I don't think I want to be your baby after all.

Posted by: Nicole at February 24, 2009 1:52 PM

Ehhh....just didn't strike me. His business creeped me out and I just didn't think it was as funny as others did, I guess.

Posted by: Jay at February 24, 2009 2:23 PM

I'll admit what's-her-name (Minnie Driver?) was rather unpleasant in it, Jay, but it really was rather delightful. And I must say it made me consider the glamourous life of professional contract killing. And the glamour of sending Dan Akroyd's head through a television screen.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 24, 2009 6:51 PM

"Hmm! My friends (male and female) were just commenting the other day about how easy it is for a man to get a great woman post-35 because there appears to be a surplus of single women, many of whom are desperate to be in a relationship and/or "find someone" (whatever that means) plus the first batch of divorcees who are looking for a new man."
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That right? Plenty of women? Desperate women?

Huh. Didn't know that. ... Hmm ...

Well, think I'll whip up some nice pancakes for Mrs. Daddy!

*reaches under sink for special ingredient*

Posted by: bucdaddy at February 25, 2009 12:43 AM

admin darling, why must we keep our love a secret?


Seriously, you HAVE to go here:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/83/83dhottub.phtml

After all these years, I can NEVER think of or see or be in a hot tub without thinking about this...

Posted by: dammitjanet at February 25, 2009 12:29 PM