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Walken's Got Balls of Fury (Like We Need a Movie to Tell Us That)
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Newsstand »
Finally! Someone has gotten around to writing that
ping-pong movie we've been waiting for - it's about damn time, Hollywood. Entitled Balls of Fury (of course it is), the movie tells the harrowing
tale of "a former ping-pong champ [who] is brought in by the government to infiltrate a high-stakes underworld
[ping-pong] tournament and bring down the organizer, a feared crime boss." Needless to say, since it's been
written by the guys who created Reno 911!,
the movie is a comedy (and if you read that summary and thought it might be serious, you need to get out more).Even in a film with a plot as magnificent as this one, however, everything depends on the casting. Tony-winning stage actor Dan Fogler was signed to play the champ a few months ago, which is fine - I'm sure the man is very talented, and knows his pong inside and out. What truly kicked in the movie into another world, however, was the casting of Christopher Walken as Fang, the ping-pong loving crime boss. Oh yes. Really, what else do you need? The fact that Fogler's character has an East German nemesis is just icing on a magnificent movie cake.
The brilliance will commence in June, under the direction of co-writer Robert Ben Garant.
More stars calling Reno 911!
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », RumorMonger », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
Even if it's crappy, Reno
911!: Miami is going to make money. It'll have a huge opening weekend, and then hang around long enough to
make a profit, if only via DVD sales. That said, though, the show is both popular and shockingly clever (I can admit
that now that I'm over my snobbiness and have watched it). Since the movie's being made by the same bunch of people, it
might surprise some of my fellow snobs by actually being really good.The film's production team, however, isn't counting on its quality to bring in new viewers: instead, they're augmenting their basically unknown cast with famous, ironically audience-grabbing names. A few weeks ago, it was announced that Paul Rudd had joined the cast, possibly as "some kind of whacked-out drug dealer," and now IESB is reporting that a whole slew of "stars" have been added, including The Rock, Danny DeVito, and Paul Reubens. While none of those guys is likely to play a massive role in the movie, the possibility that, say, Reubens will show up and do something self-effacing is enough to make pretty much anything more appealing.
The film is due for release sometime later this year - do I smell a box office surprise?
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