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Adrien Brody Finally Capitalizes on Oscar Credentials with Predators
· It’s probably too easy — and maybe even inaccurate — to accuse Adrien Brody of taking the path of least resistance after hearing of his commitment to Predators, Robert Rodriguez’s ’80s franchise reboot for Fox. Reports say Brody and his agents lobbied hard for the chance to rebrand him as an action star; as the lead in the story of an elite paramilitary squad hunted by some human-devouring alternaspecies, this might accomplish that. But surely when he heard that Topher Grace was also just confirmed to co-star as “an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer,” the project took the kind of batshit experimental turn that Brody just wants to see to believe. So do the rest of us; it’s scheduled to open July 6, 2010. [THR]
Samuel L. Jackson tries something Different, Universal orders a double for Isla Fisher, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Samuel L. Jackson is locked in for Same Kind of Different as Me, an adaptation of the feel-good nonfiction bestseller about a homeless drifter (Jackson) who strikes up a friendship with a rich Dallas art dealer named Ron Hall. Scripts are still out for the Hall role, though much of Hollywood is far more preoccupied with who will win the dynamic part of Hall’s toupee. [Variety]
· Confessions of a Shopaholic wound up doing all right, so risk-averse Universal is getting into the Isla Fisher business. The actress will star in and co-produce Life Coach — about a woman who visits the messed-up title character (two-quadrant hilarity ensues) — and simply star in an adaptation of a French romcom script entitled One Day My Princes Will Come. The logline for that latter is under wraps, as usual, but expect it to land on this list by the time everything’s said and done. [Variety]
· RZA is the latest to jump on to Due Date, joining Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan. [Variety]
· Looking forward to the next season of Bored to Death? Oh. Well, HBO ordered one anyway. [The Live Feed]
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Posted 07 Oct 2009, 6:31 AM
1. I think he just wants to be in a movie somebody might actually see.
2. When will Hollywood stop making these "Yuppies learns life lessons from homeless man who smells like pee" movies.
3. Darn, I was hoping Universal would go for Land of the Lost 2.
4. And yet I still don't care.
5. And yet I couldn't care even less.