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Tom Cruise May Return to the Danger Zone (What Is Wrong with Me? That Headline Is Terrible)

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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  • Christopher McQuarrie, the brilliant screenwriter behind The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie is working on a script for a Top Gun sequel, and there’s apparently a small role in it for Tom Cruise. I hope McQuarrie has sense enough not to bury the homo-eroticism. (Vulture)

  • The L.A. Times is reporting that Noomi Rapace is up for the lead role in The Last Voyage of Demeter, a fleshed-out version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, although the Hollywood Cog tells me that it’s far from a done deal. If she signs on, she’d co-star with Sir Ben Kingsley. Rapace would play a stowaway on a ship where strange things happened that can only be attributed to a vampire. (LA Times)

  • Guillermo del Toro was not offered the director’s gig on Godzilla, FYI. He was also not offered the director’s chair on the Short Circuit remake or the Don’t Tell My Mom the Babysitter’s Dead remake. It is quite possible, however, that someday, del Toro would decide to actually sit the fuck down and make another movie. (HitFlix)

  • On this week’s Frotcast, Vince over at FilmDrunk interviews Scott Sanders, the director of Black Dynamite. Black Dynamite Panther Fist! (FilmDrunk)

  • ABC is developing a television series based on “Romeo & Juliet.” No. I’m not kidding. (Spoiler: They die in the end). Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) is up for the director’s gig on the pilot. (Deadline)

  • If the cast of Harry Potter looked like hipsters, this is what they’d look like. (NextMovie)

  • Neil Patrick Harris will make his directorial debut with Aaron and Sarah, a project with Josh Hutcherson and Emma Roberts that David O. Russell turned down. The movie is “follows a geeky guy and a popular girl who become friends as freshmen in high school and see their relationship deepen through the four years, four proms and one funeral before graduation.” (THR)









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    Comments

    Um, the Short Circuit and Don't Tell Mom part was a joke right? Eh, Fuck it. I'm not even going to feign surprise anymore.

    Posted by: PaulterA at October 14, 2010 6:17 PM

    • So, what are they going to do if the show does well? They put off killing them?

    Season 1 ending: Juliet fakes death. ~cliffhanger~
    Season 2: Romeo spends all 22 episodes monologuing and angst-ing about Juliet
    Season 3: Romeo finally kills himself...????
    Season 4: THEY COME BACK AS VAMPIRES.

    Posted by: Vi at October 14, 2010 6:20 PM

    I choose to take from this info this randomly selected conclusion:

    Perchance, just perchance, we have a hope of the US attempting the two-season, or better yet, 'One Series/Season at a time' approach like they do on the BBC.

    What with the walking dead thing, and a show with a built in conclusion like Womeo and Juwiet, maybe they've just finally seen the bottom line - the best shows were gone after two seasons (and that's probably why they are legendary shows, instead of merely great ones).

    Wouldn't that somehow up the quality? If you knew you had a thirteen episode arc, and that's it, to make your show a thing?

    Far less ADHD two episode shows (hopefully this reasoning would follow) as well...because you could switch the schedule, but not the playdates.

    And of course, in my magical world, this would mean that competition for these gauranteed spots would be so fierce that only nuanced and excellent quality shows would get made.

    Yeah. (Sighs happily for a short moment.)

    Posted by: replica at October 14, 2010 6:21 PM

    What's the point of Top Gun without Goose? THERE IS NO POINT, I TELL YOU.

    Posted by: figgy at October 14, 2010 6:45 PM

    Exactly.

    Posted by: Jay at October 14, 2010 7:15 PM

    Romeo and Juliet as a Tv series? Been there done that. Japan beat us to it.

    Posted by: LordNinja at October 14, 2010 8:52 PM

    Season 4: THEY COME BACK AS VAMPIRES.

    Posted by: Vi at October 14, 2010 6:20 PM

    Yeah, glittery ones.

    Posted by: Uriah Creep at October 14, 2010 11:56 PM

    re: this site's inability to find anything interesting unless it's completely original, which is impossible thus instigating so much disdain for everything (specifically a Romeo and Juliet TV series, which I think could be fascinating and is one of the few of Shakespeare's plays that even makes sense for such an idea): Oh, you Pajibans.

    Speaking of, I've been wondering, is it pronounced pah-gee-bah or pahgee-bah? By extension are we pah-gee-baans or pahgee-baans? I need to know because I've been thinking the latter, but pah-gee-book just doesn't roll off the tongue as well as pahgee-book. Grassy-ass!

    Posted by: RobP at October 15, 2010 9:59 AM

    I'm more confused about what a hipster is now than ever, but I don't dress like either version of Harry Potter, so stop calling me a hipster, everyone. I dress like a bum. You can call me a bum; that's more accurate. Shut up, I don't know who I am either.

    Posted by: Johnny C. Georgie at October 15, 2010 10:41 AM

    RobP,

    It is pronounced Pah-jai-buns.

    Rhymes with Vuh-jai-nuns.

    Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 11:10 AM

    I refuse to call this site Pah-Jai-buh... I'm just not a fan of the sounds of them phonemes, I tells ya.

    pah-JEE-bah. pah-JEE-bah. pah-JEE-bah.

    Posted by: Stella at October 15, 2010 11:43 AM

    Okay, STEE-LUH. You cunn prenunce eet howevahr you wunt.

    Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 1:21 PM

    Don't understand the PBR-hipster connection (some commenter on the link asked 'where's the PBR' and I've seen the reference a number of times in the past.) I just like cheap beer...i'm not being ironic.

    Posted by: stryker1121 at October 15, 2010 2:48 PM

    Really, Kballs, puh-jai-buns?

    ...I've made a huge mistake...

    Posted by: RobP at October 15, 2010 3:05 PM

    RobP,

    You ain't the first, and you sure as shit won't be the last. I pronounced it wrong in my head for over a year before Dustin reminded everyone it sounds like "vagina."

    It's an effective comparison because I'm thinking about vaginas right now.

    Mmm, vaginas.

    Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 4:08 PM