By Jason Apuzzo. • Robert Downey, Jr. and his wife have formed a production company, and their first project will be to produce Steve McQueen’s script (yes, that Steve McQueen) for Yucatan, the Mexico-motorcycle heist film McQueen wanted to do long ago. Steve’s son Chad will be exec. producing. Although I’m not a huge fan of Downey’s, this is a genuinely great idea and somewhere up above The King of Cool is smiling in his Mustang.
• A 3D IMAX release of The Green Hornet is set for January 14th of next year. Troubling subtext: January is a frequent dumping ground of projects nobody has confidence in. Will Green Hornet end up in the red? In related news, the new version of The Thing will be coming out on April 29th of next year. This Thing is technically a prequel to John Carpenter’s remake … so does that mean it’s also a ‘reboot’? I’m trying to get a handle on this.
• A sequel to Karate Kid is already in the works. Sequel + Reboot = SeeBoot. You read it here first.
• A liberal group has created an on-line petition to stop Disney from putting Sarah Palin’s new Alaska/nature show on the Learning Channel. My advice is to flood the email box of this website with enormous, 2mb photo images of Naughty Monkey pumps.
• George Clooney has been made a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. That’s not the punch-line, that’s the actual news story. He joins Michael Douglas and Warren Beatty on the Council’s Sub-Division on Global Narcissism.
• Did Al Gore have an affair with Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David? Or is it all just an on-line hoax? Right now Al’s regretting inventing the internet.
• Obnoxious Brit left-winger Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantanamo, The Killer Inside Me) is at it again. His next project will apparently be The Promised Land, about the battle between Jewish insurgents and British occupiers in the Palestine of the 1930s. Winterbottom gets the perfect Brit-leftie 2-fer here: implying moral equivalency between Jews of the 1930s and contemporary Islamic terrorists, and comparing current American occupations to failed British occupations of the pre-World War II era. Silver lining? Nobody watches Michael Winterbottom’s films.
• AND IN TODAY’S MOST IMPORTANT NEWS … the Hollywood reporter takes time out to interview the lovely Indian star and former Miss Universe Aishwarya Rai, about her new film Ravaan.
And that’s what’s happening today in the wonderful world of Hollywood …
Posted on June 16th, 2010 at 5:36pm.
Naughty Monkey Pumps? That’s not my bag, baby, and I DON’T DIG IT.
She really looks great when she wears those, doesn’t she?
Wowee! Aishwarya Rai sure is gorgeous.
What could beat Steve McQueen and Fay Dunaway together in the Thomas Crown Affair? Not to mention Bullitt? McQueen didn’t try to be cool the way actors today try so hard … he just was cool.