BOP Daily News
September 25, 2003
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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Naomi Watts as the new Fay Wray? That's what is in store if Peter Jackson
gets his wish. The Lord of the Rings director, who is writing and directing
a new version of King Kong for Universal, wants Watts as the big ape's
leading lady, Ann Darrow, described as an American actress who makes her
living performing on Broadway in Depression-era New York. This third
telling of Kong's tale will apparently spend more time on the eponymous
primate's home of Skull Island, and the ape itself will reportedly be a
"unique and breathtaking" creature. No, wait, that's Naomi Watts.
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The "creative" team behind Dragonfly have reportedly sold Columbia on a
thriller about a 911 operator. The film would follow the tale of said
operator, grieving over the recent demise of her sister, who begins
receiving emergency calls about murders 24 hours before they've been
committed. The operator naturally thinks she's starting to lose her mind
until a detective comes to her aid and tries to help her unravel the
mystery. Columbia would not confirm if they were going to cast William Shatner as the voice of the 911 caller.
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And staying with the theme of people behind bad movies getting more work,
the director of the Jeepers Creepers sequel is going behind the camera again
for the World War II thriller The Watch. This New Line film follows the
exploits of a group of green recruits whose mission is to blow up a critical
Nazi bridge. During the mission, the soldiers discover they are being
hunted by one of Satan's minions. One proposed plot development that would
satisfy the nubile young things-getting-killed quotient involves the platoon
encountering the local Hitler Youth Ladies' Auxiliary, which is
coincidentally having its annual Wet Peasant-Blouse Contest fundraiser.
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And we'll make it a questionable-talent trifecta with confirmation of
reports that Rob Cohen has opted out of directing the xXx sequel and will
instead helm Stealth, which tells the story of an AI-enhanced war drone
that, following a lightning strike, develops a decidedly human personality.
The newly-anthropomorphic droid must then be disabled by its creator and the
three pilots involved in testing it before it starts a thermonuclear world
war. Word is that during early special-effects testing, the drone showed more charisma than Vin Diesel.
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"He vould have an enormous schwanzstooker."
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