BOP Daily News
November 11, 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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The Rule of Four, the treasure-hunting bestseller that many had charged with riding the coattails of The DaVinci Code, is now receiving a screenplay treatment from writers David Posamentier and Geoff Moore. Warner Bros. has tapped the two to write a big-screen adaptation of the thriller which focuses on four Princeton students on the trail of a long-hidden Roman treasure. The novel was a staple on the Top 10 Best Seller list before Warner Bros. picked up the movie rights to it. To make the film more accessible to younger audiences, the four Princeton students will be turned into four young black men from South Central LA who are mistakenly admitted to Princeton where their hippity-hop ways lead them to uncover secrets of the long-lost treasure.
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In other semi-book-related news, Cruise/Wagner Productions has purchased the film rights to The Devil’s Banker, a bestseller released this past summer. Written by Christopher Reich, the story focuses on a female British spy and an American accountant working for the FBI who team up to foil plans for a terror attack against the United States (who else?). It is much too early to know if Tom Cruise, half of the production team, will star in the project as it is not even in early pre-production yet. The project, however, has somehow seen four different directors leave the production.
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To keep the book theme going, sort of, Blackbird, a project being written by David Auburn but based on a book proposal by Eric Olson, might be an upcoming project for Spider-Man himself, Tobey Maguire. If your brain is cramping up right now, I applaud you. The project will feature a story in which the son of a CIA agent, who was believed to have committed suicide, begins investigating his father’s mysterious demise when he learns that the CIA made his father take LSD a week before his death. This could be the second major feature for Keith Richards, who would surely be a lock for the flashback scenes featuring the father’s week of LSD fun.
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Michael Moore is apparently planning to move ahead with a sequel to his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, cleverly titled Fahrenheit 9/11 ½ (That’s “Fahrenheit 9/11 and a half” for those of you whose brains are still in a knot from the previous news bit). Moore will reportedly continue to focus on Iraq and terrorism citing that “…51% of the people that voted (in this past election) were misinformed.” Moore added what he believed to be a silver lining “…George W. Bush is prohibited by law from running again.” Michael, Michael, Michael. Stupid, naïve Michael.
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"Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality."
Previous edition's quote: Beautiful Girls
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