Note: There is no Star Wars or Back to the Future talk in the following post. Sorry. Let those flags fly and all, but it’s all well covered elsewhere, so there you are.
CHRIS ROCK IN TALKS TO BE CRITICISED ON TWITTER
Showing the good business sense to do something lucrative even if it is unpopular that you would expect from a friend of Adam Sandler, it looks like Chris Rock is in talks to host the Oscars again.
With Neil Patrick Harris having retired from the hosting gig after one year, failing to live up to whatever exactly the expectations are for the thankless job, the Oscars are in need of a host and according to Variety*, they are looking to return to a known quantity in Rock. Not only did he already host the event in 2005, but he has worked before with the new co-producer of the Oscars Reginald Hudlin, who directed the pilot episode of Everybody Hates Chris. The reaction to Rock’s first time hosting was largely positive, but then again, that was before Twitter was a thing. I’m sure a heap of losers and egg-face profiles are getting #BoycottOscars going even now.
*Variety were not in fact the first ones to report this story, a site called ‘Robot Butt‘ was, but Variety’s journalistic matter-of-fact description of how they learned this from Robot Butt is worth reading on its own.
JON HAMM, BABY MAN
When Edgar Wright split from Ant-Man, he did not descend into eating Ben & Jerry’s for every meal and listening to Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn on repeat like so many of us might have, he got right back in the saddle and started working on his next film Baby Driver, and he’s getting quite the cast together. With Ansel Elgort and Lily James on board and Jamie Foxx on his way too, noted hansy Jon Hamm is set to join up as well, again according to Variety (Robot Butt were caught sleeping on this one). It’s funny, these days you’re more likely to see Hamm in comedic roles than anything else, and having seen him play Reverend Gary and the Falcon this year in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Wet Hot American Summer this year, news of him working with Edgar Wright is very exciting, even if details are scarce.
Baby Driver will be about a young getaway driver who runs afoul of a crime boss. This will probably be on the soundtrack and the film will be released on March 17, 2017.