ELIZABETH’S ANGELS…look you should know by now titles aren’t my specialty
Elizabeth Banks settled into the director’s chair this year with Pitch Perfect 2, and while it’s difficult to get much of a read on her abilities on one crowd pleaser, it certainly did very well financially, the kind of thing that puts producers on notice much faster than great auteur sensibilities. With that in mind, Banks is in negotiations to direct another big screen reboot of a beloved television series from the 1970s, a silly, sexy and totally 70s show that forever left a mark on popular culture…Me and the Chimp. Uh, I mean Charlie’s Angels.
Banks will also produce the film along with husband and producing partner Max Handelman. She’s a good fit for the irreverent tone you would expect from a modern Charlie’s Angels, you could easily see her fitting in either in front of or behind the camera of the Barrymore-Liu-Diaz film of the early 00s. As long as they don’t actually try to be taken seriously like that last attempt at a tv show, things should work out alright. Now who do I have to talk to for a gritty reimagining of Me and the Chimp?
CHANNING TATUM’S EVEL KNIEVEL MOVIE TO LEAP OVER HURDLE OF NOT HAVING A DIRECTOR
Channing Tatum, aka the guy yo girl/yo guy thinks about during, is a big fan of Evel Knievel, the iconic 70s stuntman famous for his many televised motorcycle jumps and his even more many broken bones. For some time, Tatum has been looking to produce and star in a film adaptation of Stuart Baker’s book Life of Evel, and now that ambition might be taking a big step forward, with Deadline reporting that Darren Aronofsky is in negotiations to helm the film. If a directing talent like Aronofsky were to get on board, Tatum might end up with the greatest screen depiction of Knievel of all time, after the Touch the Sky video or the movie starring Evel Knievel as Evel Knievel in Viva Knievel, which depicts Knievel curing orphans of their paralysis, turning foolish women away from feminism through his sheer magnetism and foiling the drug trade….Channing has a lot to live up to.
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