BOP Daily News
November 5, 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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Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek are about to join forces for Luc Besson’s upcoming comedy Western, which is set in Mexico. Apparently the two lovelies have been friends for years and always wanted to work together, so doing Besson’s next pic would be perfect for them. We predict if a deal is made for Cruz and Hayek to star, lots of scenes involving white blouses and dresses and being drenched with water will be added to the script.
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There really has to be a rule made that you can’t plan a sequel until a film actually hits theatres. First a sequel to Underworld was announced before audiences had even clapped eyes on it, and now Brian Grazer is reportedly planning a sequel to Cat in the Hat. Now we’ll grant you that Dr Seuss already beat Grazer to the punch, as there is a second book about the eponymous feline, cleverly titled The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, but even he waited until the receipts were in before embarking on the follow-up. Nevertheless, the cast from the first film, which hits theatres November 21st, have all been signed for the sequel, which will follow the chapeaued cat’s adventures on a snowy day. Rumors that the third outing would be titled The Cat in the Hat Goes to Rehab could not be confirmed at press time.
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Seems Samuel L Jackson doesn’t mind sticking with a franchise. Jackson has reprised his Mace Windu in several of the Star Wars outings, and will now return as NSA agent Augustus Gibbons in the xXx sequel, which will film sans original star Vin Diesel. Jackson will once again be in charge of the extreme super-spy, played this time around by Ice Cube, drafted into the NSA to handle nasty folks around the world. One rumored rejected plotline would have had Cube and Jackson trying to beat some sense into George Lucas.
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White-hot Keira Knightley is being courted to play a boy. Yes, unbelievable as that transformation may sound, Knightly is at the top of the list to star in Soldier Girl, which tells the supposedly true story of a young woman who disguises herself as a guy to fight in the Civil War. The girl is supposed to have kept the ruse up for two years, fighting for a cause she believed in. We don’t know which side the girl fought for, but we’re thinking the outfit must’ve been swank enough to have managed enclosed latrines.
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The man who helmed Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Mike Mitchell, is slated to direct an action/comedy called The Fraud Prince. The Warner Bros film, described as a noir detective tale set in a fairy-tale kingdom, would follow the adventures of a young lady-in-waiting who is suspicious about her princess’ mysterious suitor and enlists the help of the kingdom’s first private eye to uncover the truth about the prince. The project was rumored to have nearly run aground recently when Mitchell insisted on dressing the detective in polyester and gold chains, whilst Warner Bros was opting for the deerstalker and Inverness cape route.
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