BOP Daily News
October 30, 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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Will Ridley Scott return to the Alien franchise? If Sigourney Weaver gets her way he will. Reports have surfaced that Weaver is trying to convince the director, who began the franchise in 1979, to return one last time in order to kill off her character, Ellen Ripley. Weaver apparently wants to make a “clean exit” and reportedly told Scott, “You virtually created me back then. Don't you want to kill me?” No word on what Ridley Scott’s answer was, but we don’t think it’s a good idea for actors to tempt directors in that manner, just on general principals.
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And in more Ridley Scott news, the director is set to shoot another sweeping Oscar-bait - we mean epic - film. The film, Kingdom of Heaven, will be set in the 12th century during the Crusades. According to Scott, the film will be based on actual history, the screenwriter having spent 19 months researching the story. So with the emphasis on accuracy, we’re guessing there won’t be any wizards named Tim nor vicious, man-eating rabbits.
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With trial balloons being floated almost daily concerning who will take up the James Bond mantle once Pierce Brosnan turns in his license to kill, but now comes word that audiences might have been spared the worst Bond in franchise history were it not for a TV contract. According to Adam West, he was offered the James Bond role after Sean Connery decided to hang up his tuxedo. But in a parallel to the circumstance that kept Brosnan from the role for several years, West claims he couldn't get out of his Batman contract, and so the role went to the execrable Roger Moore. Rumors that a more serious sticking point in the negotiations was West’s insistence that Bond wear tights instead of a tux could not be confirmed at press time.
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Adam West also figures in the story of Alexander the Great, who is currently the subject of two upcoming big-screen biopics. Before West became Batman, he shot a pilot for a series focusing on the famed Macedonian general, a pilot that also featured the once and future captain of the Enterprise, William Shatner. According to West, the abortive pilot required him and Shatner to ride around in loincloths in full body make-up at the crack of dawn, and the series wasn’t picked up because “the story was dreadful. It sucked." You know, Adam West and William Shatner riding around on stallions in loincloths is not a picture we needed in our head.
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"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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