BOP Daily News
June 9, 2004
The spirit of BOP News lives on in
This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Denise Di Novi, the producer of this summer’s upcoming box office bomb Catwoman, hs let it be known that her next project will be a live-action feature film adaptation of the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons. The script is currently being worked on by Sam Harper whose latest credits include Cheaper by the Dozen, Just Married and Rookie of the Year. Bringing Down the House director Adam Shankman is linked to direct the project but no actors are attached to star yet. The Jetsons was an indirect off-shoot of The Flintstones that took the same theme of the family from Bedrock and placed them in the future. Not that we’re casting directors or anything, but seriously, the casting of Rosie O’Donnell as Rosie the robot maid could not be easier to call.
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Here at BOP, we love to pick on nerds, even the ones that write for us. With this mind, we begin the taunting of X-Files fans as news has spread that creator Chris Carter is in early negotiations to produce a sequel to the first film…Fight the Future, was it? Aaanyway, Carter let it leak that he is working on a script for the sequel that would be released by 20th Century Fox, sister studio of the television network that originally aired the stubbornly resilient one-hour drama. Lead stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are set to return to the roles of Mulder and Scully, the two FBI agents investigating the weird and wonderful world of strange things, including aliens, smoker and even more aliens. We merely ask that anal probing be kept to a minimum…unless Duchovny is replaced by Rosario Dawson, in that case, probe away.
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On to geeks of a different kind…Kevin Smith has revealed that he will likely not direct the upcoming big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet. Smith revealed to an audience of one of his “lectures” in the UK that he had perhaps taken on too much of a role in the project when he agreed to direct and now he would be only writing the script. Smith has always claimed that he would not be capable of directing an action scene effectively so the news does not come as a complete surprise. The real surprise is that Smith won’t be directing but will indeed be playing Kato.
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