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Don Johnson, Porn Director
Filed under: Comedy », Casting »
Could Don Johnson be the next big comeback? I'm sure playing Kristen Bell's dad in When in Rome, or Jason Sudeikis' dad in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy won't do it, but maybe playing a porn director would? I mean, it worked for Burt Reynolds.The Hollywood Reporter posts that Johnson will play a mustachioed director of the XXX films in Adam Sandler's Born to Be a Star. If you remember, the film focuses on a nerd who discovers that his parents were famous porn stars in the '70s, so he sets out to follow their path. But where Reynolds gave us retro porn, Johnson will delight in this century, playing "a down-on-his-luck director" who gives the nerd a shot.
Honestly, I'd pay just to see that, but it helps that Stephen Dorff will play a porn star named Dick Shadow (cue Dirk Diggler), and Edward Herrmann, of all people, also has a role. Am I wrong to think that this might take us back to a better day of Sandler projects? Whatever the case, I'm going to go fire up YouTube, listen to "Heartbeat," and remember the days of rocking out to Don with my Pocket Rockers.
Weigh in: Don Johnson, mustached man of porn ... Yay or Nay?
Adam Sandler and Christina Ricci Do Porn
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Deals », Scripts »
Adam Sandler has broken out of his Happy Madison bubble and written something for a ... wait for it ... "porn title-friendly entity." But don't worry, it's not a skin flick, and it probably won't have him Jason Segeling. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Sandler as co-written a script with Jack Giarraputo called Born to Be a Star; Tom Brady (The Hot Chick) is directing, and Christina Ricci is the first to sign on.This news would suggest that Ricci is going to spend some time as a petite porn star, but that's not the way this is playing out. The "porn-tinged" comedy focuses on a small-town nerdy guy in Iowa who discovers that his humble parents used to be famous porn stars in the '70s. The discovery doesn't make him cower in fear and trauma, however, as most kids would. Instead, he heads for Hollywood hoping to be just like them and become the biggest porn star in the world. Ricci will play his innocent girlfriend.
Production will kick into gear later this month, so we should hear more soon. Why does this nerdy dude head to Hollywood for porn rather than the internet? Will Rob Schneider get this gig too? He is one of Sandler's right hand men and was in Brady's first feature. Stay tuned!
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