Jackman gets imaginary, Favreau goes to Mars: Variety in 60 Seconds
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Hugh Jackman will star in a Disney musical called If You Could See Me Know Based on an unpublished book by Cecelia Ahren, Jackman will play the imaginary friend of a 6-year-old orphan who falls in love with the kid's aunt. She can see him, apparently. Even though the boy made him up. What part of "it's a Disney musical" didn't you understand?- Jon Favreau has been lined up to direct an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' sci-fi tale, John Carter of Mars. There are twelve volumes in Burroughs' series, about a Civil War veteran who stumbles upon a time portal and finds himself transported to - wait for it - Mars. Favreau, who wrote the script for Swingers and directed Made and Elf, is making his big-budget effects-spree debut with this fall's Zathura.
- Barry Levinson and Robin Williams, the duo that brought you Good Morning, Vietnam (which, if you're a little bit older than me, you loved) are Toys (of which every existing print could disappear off the face of the earth and you wouldn't even notice), are teaming up again to bring you Man of the Year. The comedy will follow a "Jon Stewart-like host of a latenight political talkshow who runs for president to make noise on the campaign trail." Sounds edutaining and all, but dear God - why couldn't they have just hired Jon Stewart?
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10-06-2005 @ 3:15PM
josh said...
So both Robert Rodgriguez and Kerry Conran have fallen by the wayside of John Carter in the past year... I have to say, Jon Favreau's attachment doesn't make me confident. A shame, I loved those books when I was younger.
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10-06-2005 @ 4:27PM
Jellodyne said...
> "why couldn't they have just hired Jon Stewart?"
Have you seen Jon Steward act in movies?
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10-06-2005 @ 4:37PM
karina said...
Yeah! Jon Stewart was totally convincing in Playing by Heart, and he was perfect in The Faculty. And if he's essentially playing himself ... I mean, it's got to be better than Robin Williams - right?
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10-06-2005 @ 7:01PM
Cliff said...
Gosh, I hope that Robin Williams movie will feature some pure no compromise liberalism, because we know that is what the people REALLY want, and, like, it has never been done before in movies or on television. Ok, it has been done hundreds of times before, but this time it will finally convince all of us yokels to vote Democrat for sure. Oh, I am older than you, and Good Morning, Vietnam was awful. Of course, I barely tolerated Mork and Mindy, and I thought that was the high water mark of Robin's career.
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10-07-2005 @ 10:25AM
Jellodyne said...
Ok, but have you seen Jon Stewart act in movies... ON WEED?!
Robin Williams' is not funny since he quit the coke, but he has gone through some good periods in a lot of terrific stuff in with the drek -- in the mid 80s he did The Survivors or The Best of Times, in the early 90s he did Fisher King, and was in Shakes the Clown and Dead Again and of course there's the recent messed-up-Robin-Williams period of One Hour Photo, Death to Smoochy and Insomnia. What do (almost) all these roles have in common? They're not Robin Williams doing his innane patented schtick, and most of them are sad roles, rather than funny.
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