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I don’t think I have ever seen Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis in a film together.   So, this is really awesome that Freeman is nearing a deal to star along with Bruce Willis in espionage thriller Red,  based on the WildStorm/DC Comic.

Brothers Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are writing the script.

“Red” was originally written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner, last year. The three-book series, published in 2003 and 2004, tells the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. Guess who would play the former CIA agent?

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SURROGATES trailer in HD

FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves – fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles – enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?

I love these “what if” graphic stories. Yikes!!!

I admit, I walked into the theatre and settled down to watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and I was ready to tear it a new one.  Several new ones.  My claws and fangs were out and I was leaking a hallucinogenic neurotoxin from every pore and orifice my body contained.  I was in Full Critic Mode.

And then the bastards had the nerve to make me LAUGH.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop had no business being as entertaining as it was.  None at all. It’s easily the best Happy Madison movie ever made, and this would ordinarily almost be an insult given the quality of other Happy Madison titles out there.  But this is as far beyond any previous Happy Madison title as a Ferrari is from a hay wagon.

The plot of Paul Blart: Mall Cop–and in perhaps the creepiest part of the whole thing, it does indeed have a plot, and it’s both clear and shockingly coherent–involves the title character, Paul Blart, in the title position, Mall Cop.  He’s the most conscientious security guard ever seen by mortal men, and the mall is his beat.  He’s a nice guy, if a little goofy and socially inept, and he’s a family man, too, living with his mother and daughter.  His wife left him in a funny yet at the same time sad story.

Anyway, he’s cruising the mall on his custom Segway–he actually has TWO, his duty model and one he keeps for off-duty use in his garage.  He even has a funny video of him performing tricks on one.  And yes, you’ll get to see it.  He keeps law and order the best he can, even though most of the mall’s patrons have little respect for him.  And his efforts to join the New Jersey State Troopers have met with failure due to his hypoglycemia.  Fully eight times.

Which means, when the mall is taken over by a highly-skilled gang of thieves, and only Paul Blart is left inside thanks to a brief moment of inattention brought on by a game of Rock Band, it’s only Paul Blart who can save the day, the mall, and the woman he loves.

Yes, for those of you who were wondering, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is basically Die Hard, if you replaced Nakatomi Tower with the West Orange Pavilion Mall, Christmas Eve with Black Friday, and John McClane with a ginormous hypoglycemic with delusions of grandeur.  I don’t know if they were actually TRYING to make a parody, but if they were, they definitely succeeded.  And if they WEREN’T trying for a parody, then they just blundered into the best accidental parody EVER.

Seriously…if they weren’t planning for a parody of Die Hard, then they deserve every penny of the hundred-plus-million this thing has made so far.  It’s just too amazing to not.

So all things considered, I’m still amazed, but I’m recommending Paul Blart: Mall Cop.  It took me three tries to type it but I’m a hundred percent serious.  See this movie.  It’s just that good.

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan are set to star in the detective comedy A Couple of Cops with Kevin Smith directing his first major studio movie.

A Couple of Cops focuses on a pair of cops who track down a stolen baseball card, rescue a Mexican beauty and must deal with gangsters and laundered drug money.

Word over at Aint it Cool News is saying that the forthcoming A-Team movie, based on the popular 80’s action show, has been pushed back to 2010 at the earliest. And if that doesn’t sound like a good sign for the project, attached director John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood, Four Brothers) has backed out, possibly due Fox’s official announcement that they’re developing and rewriting the script even more. The film is rumoured to star Bruce Willis as Hannibal, Ice Cube as BA, and Woody Harrelson as Murdoch.

To be honest, it looks as if Fox are backing away from the project, and rightly so. Nostalgia doesn’t necessarily mean people are going to fork out good money for a revival. Look at the diminishing ratings for the new Knight Rider TV show, for example. And, already this month we hear that a planned He-Man film got the axe. Will the A-Team movie go the same route? It’s probably best for all if it does.

Three Stories About Joan makes the directorial debut of Bruce Willis, a intellectual drama, which Willis also plans to take on a supporting role.

He nabbed 10,000 B.C. star Camilla Belle to play the leading character. Also joining the film is Keiran Culkin.

Filming stars in October.

Robert De Niro is fantastic in this trailer as is Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn.  What Just Happened is directed by Barry Levinson, one of my favorites.

“The Surrogates” signs all the cast members: Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell and Rosamund Pike. Bruce Willis is the star of the sci-fi thriller for Disney.The film is based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and artist Brett Weldele.
According to The Hollywood Reported,  Rhames plays a charismatic cult figure that disdains the use of surrogates and tries to lead an uprising against the “new world order.”Mitchell plays the professional partner of Willis’ character, a cop that through his surrogate investigates the murders of others’ surrogates.

Pike plays his wife.