BOP Daily News
March 29, 2005
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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Move over, Jack Ryan. The taint of Ben Affleck has thrust you onto the backburner. Now is the time for John Clark to shine. The character who made an appearance in the Sum of All Fears is now ready to star in a film franchise of his own. While it's unknown if (and perhaps unlikely that) Liev Schreiber will return to the role in Rainbow Six the movie, we do know who the writer/director is. Zach Snyder, who hit the ball out of the park in his debut on Dawn of the Dead, has earned the privilege of helming the film adaptation. A videogame staple across several systems, the Rainbow Six series is a franchise in multiple media outlets already. So, a successful film outing seems like a certainty. But if Snyder does somehow manage screw it up, expect a hooded wetworks specialist to slowly sneak up behind him and put a knife in his gullet.
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BOP's favorite producer/director combo are at it again. Jerry Bruckheimer has enlisted Tony Scott to follow up this summer's Domino with Deja Vu. The project is being described as a romantic thriller in the vein of Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again. The concept is that an FBI agent travels back in time for some reason. During his temporal journey, he encounters the woman whose murder is being investigated. Despite knowing that the victim will soon lose her life, the fed falls in love with her anyway. BOP is secretly hoping that this project gets combined with Rainbow Six, and it's John Clark who travels back in time to save Amelia Earhart from alien pirates. This is also why even Charlie Kaufman thinks our movie pitches are too far out there.
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Dustin Hoffman is sticking with what works. Fresh off of his appearance in the most successful comedy of all time, Meet the Fockers, the thespian is ready to take on another comedy role. This one is straight out of the Steve Martin/Father of the Bride meets Parenthood mold. The production is Father Knows Less, and the play on words effectively describes the concept. A successful businessman finds himself wholly unprepared for the complications of parenthood when his second wife dumps him. The father is forced to take stock of his life and re-evaluate what really matters, family or professional success. Any guesses about his choice? Expect the film to run on ABC Family from 2006 until the end of the time.
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Women of loose morals unite! Substance abuse hall-of-famer Courtney Love has put down the crack pipe long enough to sign up for a new project, and suffice it to say this is the role she was born to play. The woman who drove Kurt Cobain to suicide is ready to portray the life of her presumed role model, Linda Lovelace. That's right, the Hole frontwoman will star in an upcoming biopic about the life of everybody's favorite Deep Throat. Lovelace passed away in 2002, but the recent Inside Deep Throat has made her story popular in Hollywood circles. A biopic had been rumored for a while now, but the choice of Love is something of a masterstroke. It's not often you find an actress too sleazy to play a porn star.
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""They prefer to be called adult film actresses.""
Previous edition's quote: The Air Up There
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