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Fox Atomic Orders a 'Wake Up Call'
Filed under: Comedy », Deals », Scripts », Newsstand », Fox Atomic »
New screenwriter Justin Ware is just rolling in the successful pitches and writing gigs these days. He's the pen behind American Summer, the comedy I told you about in February. Remember the oh-so-charming premise? A pool cleaner (Matthew Lillard) slacks around cleaning the pools of the rich while his parents think he's going to school at Harvard. When his apartment is fumigated, he moves into an empty mansion and pimps out an escort he knows. That production just wrapped, and he already has three other projects in the works -- Adrenaline, Amazing Girls, and Handymen.Now The Hollywood Reporter has posted the next project added to his ever-growing list -- an original comedy pitch called Wake Up Call, which will be produced by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar. Unfortunately, they say almost nothing about the plot, other than describing it as "a high-concept comedy along the lines of Wedding Crashers." Does that mean a similar wedding-crashing premise, or just the general idea? Perhaps the flick will focus on some guys who don't crash weddings, but instead randomly give wake-up calls to people in the neighborhood? Or people who make the wake up calls at a hotel. Or maybe some dudes who need a wake up call about their stagnant lives. Considering the writer and the title, what's your best guess?
Lillard and Ramirez Want an American Summer
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Casting »
Yes, folks. It is time for another scantily-clad movie fuelled with silly logic and lots of sex. Matthew Lillard, of Scream and Scooby fame is teaming up with Efren Ramirez (Pedro Sanchez from Napoleon Dynamite) to look for an American Summer. However, this is definitely not the Wet Hot variety, at least, not in a 1980's frolicking camp sort of way. Instead, take Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, the P.I.M.P. scene from Dude, Where's My Car? and some Accepted, mix it all together, and you've got Flipzide Studios' Summer.Lillard will star as a pool boy whose parents think he's going to school at Harvard. (I guess they don't talk, or have call display to see that their boy is in the land of the sun.) When his apartment building is fumigated for termites, he grabs an escort neighbor and his friend and moves them all into the empty mansion he works at. As if that wasn't enough, he pimps out the escort with the help of the gardener next-door (Ramirez), who acts as the muscle. (There's no word yet on the girl who will be lucky enough to be Lillard's prostitute.)
That sounds all sorts of logical, doesn't it? Just about as logical as casting a 37-year-old Lillard as a faux Harvard student... Unless he's supposed to be a mature student applicant, or his parents are just that dumb. What do you think? Will this be a White Castle surprise wonder, or an Epic, eye-burning failure?








