Newsbites: The imaginary friends edition!
1. Jim Carrey may star in The Beaver, an "offbeat comedy" that "centers on the relationship between a man and a beaver puppet he wears on his arm, which he talks to and treats as a companion." Those who have read Kyle Killen's script are comparing it to Being John Malkovich (1999) and Lars and the Real Girl (2007). -- Hollywood Reporter
2. Russell Brand is set to star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred (1991). The original film "starred Phoebe Cates as a wallflower who loses her job and husband during the course of a lunch hour. Forced to live back home, she's reunited with her childhood imaginary friend (Brit actor Rik Mayall), who promises to help but causes more havoc." -- Hollywood Reporter
3. Leah Meyerhoff is writing and directing Unicorns, an "indie drama" about "an awkward teenage girl who escapes to a fantasy world when her first romantic relationship turns increasingly abusive." For the moment, I am assuming, based on this synopsis, that the "fantasy world" in question exists only in the character's head and has no objective Narnia-like reality. -- Hollywood Reporter
2. Russell Brand is set to star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred (1991). The original film "starred Phoebe Cates as a wallflower who loses her job and husband during the course of a lunch hour. Forced to live back home, she's reunited with her childhood imaginary friend (Brit actor Rik Mayall), who promises to help but causes more havoc." -- Hollywood Reporter
3. Leah Meyerhoff is writing and directing Unicorns, an "indie drama" about "an awkward teenage girl who escapes to a fantasy world when her first romantic relationship turns increasingly abusive." For the moment, I am assuming, based on this synopsis, that the "fantasy world" in question exists only in the character's head and has no objective Narnia-like reality. -- Hollywood Reporter
posted by Peter T Chattaway at 11:35 PM
4 Comments:
Oooohh... The Beaver sounds like it should be my kind of film, but if only it had another actor.
Re No. 2:
The only thing that made me able to stand the uber-annoying Rik Mayall in Drop Dead Fred without clawing out my eyes was the presence of Phoebe Cates.
Since she's more or less retired, super-duper-uber annoyer Russell Brand hasn't got a prayer.
The whole re-make-o-rama hing just has me baffled. Drop Dead Fred needs to be remade? Does anyone really know this flim, or is that the point? What next, Monkeybone?
I also understand that there is remake of Slap Shot in the works.
I agree w/ Magnus - not with Carrey. I feel like it will be way too "goofy"
and to say it's like John Malkovich AND Lars only says that this movie is "unique" as those movies hardly have a stitch in common.
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