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Jack Black Out of Todd Phillips' 'Man-Witch'
Filed under: Comedy », Casting », Newsstand »
It looks like that collaboration between Jack Black and Todd Phillips won't be happening after all. Black pulled out of Phillips' Man-Witch, reportedly due to doubts about the director's commitment to make the supernatural comedy his next project. The film -- about a man who discovers he's a witch and enrolls in an all-female witch school -- is still in active development, with Phillips and his team looking for an actor to replace Black.The other movie Phillips is mulling is the much more amusing-sounding Hangover, about a trio of guys who wake up after a rowdy Vegas bachelor party to discover that they've misplaced the groom. That could be legitimately funny with the right cast and a decent script -- though the fact that the writers are the guys behind the Martin Lawrence basketball "comedy" Rebound isn't too promising. Anyway, maybe losing Black will push Phillips toward doing Hangover first.
Meanwhile, all has mostly been quiet on the possibility of a sequel to Old School, the frat-house romp that rocketed Todd Phillips to the A-list. Though not the biggest Old School fan, I feel like that would be a more productive use of his time than what sounds like a half-baked Harry Potter parody -- especially after the relative anonymity of his last effort, School for Scoundrels.
Jack Black is a 'Man-Witch'
Filed under: Comedy », Warner Brothers »
Hard to believe that raucous rascal Jack Black and slob-com director Todd Phillips never hooked up before, but it looks like they're about to remedy that oversight. The WB project is called Man-Witch, and I guarantee it'll have at least one joke about manwiches. Here's how Variety describes the premise: "Black will play a schoolteacher who suddenly discovers he has witchlike abilities. Taken in by a coven, he is persuaded to attend a school for witches, only to discover that his classmates are all girls."See, now that's inspired. They could have just stopped with "man-witch," but they had to go the extra mile and include the fish-out-of-water AND gender-alienation gags in there too! Raise your hand if you think Mr. Black will have to cross-dress and try to pass as a woman at least once. Ugh. Newcomer screenwriter Jay Reiss will be penning the thing, and he'll be working from a pitch by Josh Stolberg (Kids in America) and first-timer Bob Florsheim.
Hmm, the director of Starsky & Hutch and School for Scoundrels, a bunch of inexperienced writers, and the sometimes-great, sometimes-painful Jack Black -- who really hasn't delivered a whole lot since School of Rock. Combine all that with a premise that sounds like it fell out of a Fox Family Channel Original, and I think I'll be passing on this one. Unless the trailer's really funny.
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