Well, this is a cataclysm waiting to happen, now isn’t it? Seems that someone’s decided it might be a good idea to take a news story about some pirates in Somalia and make it a movie.
Meanwhile I’m out here clutching my head because from the feel of it my brain is trying desperately to escape my skull and hop a bus to go somewhere where they’ve never even HEARD of movies. Maybe some underground bunker somewhere where it can hole up with some Chaucer.
So Billy Ray–and in case you were thinking Cyrus, no, but wouldn’t it have been hilarious if it had been?–is writing up a script based on next April’s memoirs of Richard Phillips, a ship captain rescued from Somalian pirates. Billy Ray is actually responsible for writing State of Play, which we covered here some months ago, and if the Somalian pirates movie turns out anywhere near as good, we should actually be in for a bit of a treat for a change.
Of course, the down side is that Billy Ray also wrote Flightplan and Suspect Zero, so there’s a better than fair chance this is going to suck.
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Much loved animated series South Park will have to end one day whether you like it or not, and creator Trey Parker hopes to end with a bang in the form of another feature film.
"We talked about maybe someday doing a movie to sort of end it all, and that seems like the best idea,” said Parker. “That’s been a big thought to do the last show as a movie."
In fact, he admitted that they had been saving ideas for the big movie, but most of them have been used in the show over the last year. He referred to the Imaginationland three-episode story, noting that they “were completely out of ideas and we were like, well, we’ve got to use the movie idea.”
The previous feature film was released back in 1999 and was dubbed South Park: Bigger, Louder & Uncut. The show is currently in its twelfth season.
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Posted on Oct 14, 2008 under TV |
Seeing as how Indiana Jones 4 messed with everyone’s favorite childhood hero, it is no surprise that South Park took a clever jab at the series creators in its latest episode. It showed Steven Spielberg and George Lucas rape Indiana Jones in three scenes recreating them from Clockwork Orange, The Accused and Deliverance.
Interestingly, no Hollywood bigwig is bothering to lodge a complaint with Viacom over the South Park episode.
"We don’t want to engage. We just want it to go away," said an anonymous insider to Deadline Hollywood.
The episode, which marks the show’s fall premiere, was seen by an average 3.7 million viewers, up 21% from last fall’s debut and topping all of cable during that time period.
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