Weekend!
Some stuff is happening right now in the entertainment world, but since it’s Sunday the 20th of April and we’re pretty aware of our core demographic, we’re going to lump all the stories currently holding our attention into one fantastic Sunday post.
Ready? Let’s go!
James Bond wrecked his car over the weekend. Or someone wrecked it for him. While the luckiest PA in the world was driving the Aston Martin to set, something horrible happened that ended with the PA being taken to the hospital with minor injuries and the poor wreck being pulled out of an Italian lake.
Luckily, the Italians are all over this one:
Here’s a good one from Dave’s roommate: Cruisin’ On Broadway.
Katie Holmes is supposed to be working on a new play in New York, and Tom Cruise is trying to revive his career, currently on life support. Says our source: “Tom Cruise has been holding secret readings for a new play written for Katie and himself based on the life of L. Ron Hubbard. Sources say Tom Cruise will star/produce/direct his baby to ensure the integrity of the story.”
Roommate says this should be a trilogy. We agree.
The Sarah Conner Chronicles was picked up for a second season. The cast and crew were informed by the show’s producers that they had been picked up last night in Hollywood.
We’re also creaming ourselves over the trailer for The Spirit, which should quench our thirst for Frank Miller until Sin City 2 comes out:
“The last time [Ridley and I] saw each other we talked about it. The character is still interesting [and] I’d love to work with Ridley again,” Weaver said. “But Fox has effectively killed it because of ‘Alien vs. Predator.’ What else can you do with the creature? You can take the situation, you can go back to where they came from. …To play someone who ages a couple hundred years was fascinating. [But] let [Ripley] rest.”
No! Ripley!
As far as the Alien timeline goes, Ripley can bring it all together if we find out what she does when she gets back on Earth. Alien Resurrection ended with Rips and Wynona Ryder entering Earth’s atmosphere. That’s the first time Ripley has been “home” in HUNDREDS of years.
Real Ripley never got home.
How is there not a whole story in that even if there is…wait for it…NO ALIEN FOR MOST OF THE MOVIE. Remember that? Remember when Alien movies were about knowing that the monster was out there somewhere?
That’s what we’re missing, and Ripley is the only Alien character with an interesting plot that could sustain itself for 60 minutes without an Alien showdown.
Here’s our offer: we will write a treatment for RSA (Ridley Scott’s directors) or a representative of Weaver. We will do it! Just pay us for the first draft if you like it, but we are professionals here (you might not be able to tell from our blog style).
If you have any part in the Alien property, help us out!
Producer Joel Silver, who you know only because the Wachowski Brothers use him as an avatar instead of doing their own press, has confirmed that The Justice League movie has been “tabled.”
That means the plot we knew of, the cast we thought was attached and how sucky we thought it was going to be is now a tabula rasa.
We think this is good news, because the project isn’t “dead,” it’s “tabled.”
Britney Spears might be coming back to do another episode of How I Met Your Mother, which must really piss off the cast who has watched their charming little under-the-radar show become “that Britney Spears cameo sitcom.”
Also on the celebrities we love to hate, Jessica Simpson’s kidney infection of last week might have just been her getting drunk enough to be admitted into a hospital. “Sources” claim she even asked for a pregnancy test.
Who wants a pregnancy test when they are drunk enough to be hospitalized?
Idiots like Jessica Simpson, that’s who.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em!
