BOP Daily News
October 15, 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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Columbia Pictures has just greenlighted a film about everybody’s favorite boy king, Tutankhamen. The film, cleverly titled Tut, will reportedly be an action-adventure/love story centering on Tut’s attempts to save his country by claiming the throne of the Sun King upon his father’s death. Roland Emmerich, who was behind the camera for such notable films as Independence Day and The Patriot, is set to helm. Hey, guys; we’ve got this great idea for the theme song.
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Speaking of great ideas for theme songs, New Line just greenlighted the comedy Instant Karma, starring The Rock. The flick will blend live action and CGI animation to tell the story of a safecracker who dies and is then reincarnated as a variety of animals, moving his way up the food chain with each incarnation. The Rock will be joined by such luminaries as Pierce Brosnan and Mira Sorvino on the live-action action side, and Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Gene Wilder doing voice work. If the film is successful, New Line hopes not only for a franchise, but a powdered-drink mix tie-in.
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Robert Downey, Jr. claims to be glad that he was dropped from the cast of Woody Allen’s next film because he didn’t want the part anyway. Downey reportedly left the project because producers failed to secure insurance for him due to his drug arrest record, but according to Downey, the production should have investigated the insurance situation before Allen announced he was cast. Downey says that the way it was handled, “Woody got a lot of publicity out of hiring me, and then they said let's try and get insurance. I'm happy to be out of it." Can you say sour grapes, boys and girls? We knew you could.
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Will Ferrell is apparently angling to be the Michael Caine of his generation by never turning down a film. In addition to having the film Elf opening later this year, headlining Woody Allen’s next project and starring opposite Nicole Kidman in Bewitched, he’s got Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy in the can, he’s expected to star in A Confederacy of Dunces once financing is in place, and now he’s set to headline an upcoming Universal comedy about kids’ soccer. Ferrell will play the reluctant coach of his son’s soccer team who finds his coaching gig pits him against his father. Fortunately for film audiences everywhere, none of Ferrell’s slate of projects requires him to appear naked.
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Kelly Hu has reportedly joined the cast Underclassman, the upcoming Miramax comedy about a young detective who goes undercover at an elite private school. Hu will play a good friend of the detective’s on the force. We don’t have a joke here; it’s just been a while since we put up a picture of a beautiful girl for no reason at all.
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"That's not a bit like Cagney."
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