Here is the Wednesday edition of “The Dailies”, keeping you plugged into what’s going on out there in the world of entertainment, just like Entertainment Tonight but without the annoying hosts. Let’s see what’s breaking, shall we?
…Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody is making more heat with news about her new project with Steven Spielberg. The Juno writer is working on a comedy movie screenplay for the Jaws helmer to possibly direct for DreamWorks based on a premise that Spielberg thought up. This isn’t the first job that Cody has done for Steve; she is executive producer on a new Showtime series called The United States of Tara that gelled from an idea that Spielberg had. I know that the backlash against Cody from some quarters of the fan community has been fierce since winning the Oscar for Juno and she’ll probably get some more barbs thrown her way with this latest announcement. If Jennifer’s Body, the next movie to be released that’s based on a Cody script, is a hit then perhaps the criticism will die down and people will finally judge the work on its own merit.
…while The Weinstein Company looks for an investor to split the cost of making Quentin Tarantino’s next, Inglorious Bastards, the word is heard that Q.T. has already approach two A-list actors to play key roles in the World War II pic. Tarantino has asked Brad Pitt, currently living in France and getting to know his new twins, to play the part of one of the Allied soldiers/heroes while Leonardo DiCaprio has been asked if he would be into playing the film’s villain, a German SS officer named Hans Landa. If the two are interested in starring in the film that news hasn’t as yet broken.
…what do you get when you take Predator,a little bit of Highlander and The Lord of the Rings? You get the trailer for Outlander which really doesn’t look all that bad. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) plays a human-looking alien that crashes to Earth (specifically Scandinavia) in the 10th century. Coming along for the ride on Caviezel’s spaceship is a Moorwen, some kind of big, glowy monster. Guess what happens next? Now you can see how close you were to the reality by watching the film’s bootlegged trailer on YouTube.
OK, I’m out.
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