A Big Screen Scoop so late that now it’s early-lucky you!
A TEENAGE BOY SOMEWHERE HAS A MAGIC LAMP
Alexandra Daddario and Kate Upton are starring in a “road-trip sex comedy”. This news interests me.
Variety reports that Daddario, star of upcoming Mother Nature vs The Rock film San Andreas and that scene in True Detective that you’ve seen a lot, has signed up to join Upton in The Layover, a comedy directed by William H. Macy. Presumably, Macy’s wife Felicity Huffman reacted to this news with an eye roll and a “really, William?”
The two will play best friends who decide to avoid their problems by taking a vacation together, only for their plane to be rerouted due to a hurricane warning. Upton’s acting ability is questionable at best, but Daddario has a winning personality and a career on the upswing. Let’s all try to behave ourselves about this.
WAIT, MAYBE I HAVE A MAGIC LAMP
Do you watch Broad City? I strongly recommend it, as a joyful, frank, strange and alive comedy from the minds of true best friends for life Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Imagine a show that’s everything Girls is trying to be, but almost incidentally and is actually funny to boot. Their ongoing success is good news to me, so it’s pretty cool to hear that they could be bringing their style of comedy to the big screen.
Jacobson and Glazer have reportedly sold a script to 20th Century Fox, with harmless prom date Paul Feig helping them to develop and produce the project, of which little is known so far. All sounds like good news, except apparently the pair aren’t actually going to star in the film themselves. Maybe I don’t have a magic lamp after all.
NO, I DON’T HAVE A MAGIC LAMP
The kindest thing thing you could say about the 2012 version of The Three Stooges is that it was inoffensive but unnecessary. Yet despite the film only making $54 million on a $30 million budget, someone somewhere has demanded more. Someone has demanded the series be revisited, so we can finally learn the answers to the burning questions, like when will the funny men fall down?
A sequel has been announced by production companies C3 Entertainment, Grand Peaks Entertainment and The Exchange, with all the first film’s trio returning, still having nothing better going on in their careers. Reportedly, a ‘major action star’ will be added to the cast, which could be exciting except they haven’t said who it is so they probably haven’t got one yet. Perhaps its a smart move to cover themselves, this way they can go for Liam Neeson, then when he turns them down they can just trot out Will Sasso doing his flawless impression of No Holds Barred star Hulk Hogan. No one will be any the wiser.