ODDS FOREVER IN FAVOUR OF MORE HUNGER GAMES MOVIES
Seeing as the true Hunger Games are Hollywood’s attempts to sate their hunger for more money for as long as possible before driving profitable intellectual property into the ground, Lionsgate is thinking of making more Hunger Games movies. This despite the fact that the series definitely ended just recently, already with more films than there were books, as is the new standard.
Michael Burns, Vice President of Lionsgate has said that the franchise will “live on and on“, which sounds suspiciously like saying “have no fears, we’ve got stories for years”. He also spoke of a desire to take the Hunger Games back to their hungry, gamey roots, with a preference for prequel stories, where they could have the exciting action of the games that younger moviegoers enjoyed so much in the earlier installments. Which…is kind of missing the point of the games? I don’t know if the YA novel themes were too subtle for Lionsgate, but the Hunger Games were supposed to be a bad thing. On the other hand, setting any prospective movies in the past might be a necessity, there probably aren’t enough characters left in one piece in the series to do a sequel.
THE DISASTER ARTIST TAKES ITS STUPID CAST OUT OF ITS POCKET
At first glance, James Franco and Tommy Wiseau couldn’t be any more different as artists. While Wiseau worked extremely hard at something he has no talent for whatsoever, failed totally yet became a cult hero, James Franco seems to half-ass everything despite actually having some talents, is a success and yet nobody seems to be like him. Something about Wiseau clearly inspires Franco though, or at least makes Franco want to be seen as being inspired by him, as Franco is directing an adaptation of The Disaster Artist, the (very entertaining) book written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell about the former’s experiences with the eccentric Wiseau and the making of bizarre alien-interpretation of human behavious/infamously terrible movie The Room.
The cast for Franco’s film is starting to take shape. Franco himself will be playing Wiseau, with brother Dave as Greg. Recently confirmed as an addition by The Hollywood Reporter was Josh Hutcherson as the actor who played confusing manchild/drug addict Denny, and now other well-known names are signing up, including comedian Hannibal Buress as the owner of the stage that Wiseau rents to film his movie on, Zac Efron popping in to cameo as a drug dealer (how could he ever live up to the acting of Chris-R?) and Kate Upton, cast as “James Franco wants to hang out with Kate Upton”.