Oh man…now I’ve heard just about everything a person could hear in one lifetime. See, I was out hunting up newsy bits to pass on to you–you know how I do–and what do I find?
They’ve already half cast the FOURTH installment of Shrek.
Dubbed Shrek Forever After, it will feature one of the best parts of both The Office and Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Craig Robinson, in a heretofore unseen role known as “Cookie”. Whether that’s a reference to a chef, as in one of Jim Varney’s last roles in the Disney movie Atlantis, or a reference to a baked good in the style of Shrek character The Gingerbread Man, it’s not yet known either way.
The rest of the cast, at last report, is pretty much the same, meaning that Mike Myers et al are about to get their hands on a whole lot of fat loot for sitting around reading a script into a microphone. Again.
I’ll be honest, the third one really wasn’t that great. It didn’t have the same unique qualities that made the first two Shreks so very interesting. Could the fourth one pull it out of its downward spiral? We’ll have to wait a good long while as they’re still casting.
The final poster for Kevin Smith’s film, which is ultra-funny.
Averting commercial suicide, director Kevin Smith has won an appeal to get an R rating for his comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The movie was originally given a NC-17 rating, effectively prohibiting anyone under 17 from seeing the movie.
A MPAA spokesperson said the rating was revised after the group’s appeals board viewed the movie.
The film, set to open this October, has longtime platonic friends Zack and Miri solve their cash flow problems by creating an adult film together. The story picks up from there.
The NC-17 rating is considered a death sentence for movies as most movie theaters don’t show these movies and most distributors don’t even consider supporting one. It seems that director Kevin Smith is having a couple of issues with the rating of his upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno which was recently issued with a NC-17 rating from MPAA.
Seth Rogen, who stars in the film, has a few choice words for the MPAA: "They are really ****ing around with us…A guy ****ing a donkey, they ain’t got no problem with, but a man and a woman having sex they seem to have real issues with, for some weird reason. It’s insane. It’s completely insane."
He also talks about the harsh treatment movies get when it comes to sex than violence. "They [fight against] sex stuff. Isn’t that weird?” he asked. “It’s really crazy to me that ‘Hostel’ is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and sh– like that, but you can’t show two people having sex — that’s too much."
The film currently has a release date of October 31.