BOP Daily News
November 6, 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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Quentin Tarantino as the next Irwin Allen? Could be, according to reports that the director plans on reuniting cast members from his first three films to make an airplane disaster movie. The idea for the flick supposedly was a joke between Tarantino and Samuel L Jackson, but the helmer has become somewhat serious about the idea, even to the point of dream-casting the all-star line-up of disaster victims. Dubbing the film “Airport 2005”, Tarantino envisions John Travolta as the pilot, Pam Grier the plucky stewardess, and Robert Forster, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and Bridget Fonda amongst the passengers. We’re not sure who would be the dying kid, the singing nun, and the former pilot with the drinking problem, but Samuel L Jackson would be perfect for one of the jive-talking dudes.
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Well, here’s a switch; someone’s suing Fox. OK, actually, it’s the Fox Network being taken to court by the group Arrested Development. Seems the band has filed a trademark infringement suit against all parties involved in the new Fox series Arrested Development, claiming Fox’s usage of the name will “dilute the meaning” of the band’s name to their fans. Because it’s so often a TV series is confused with a hip-hop group in the minds of the young people, apparently. According to a statement by the band’s front-man, "Fox has no more right to use 'Arrested Development' for its show than a band would have to name itself after one of Fox's sitcoms." Rumors that the band Arrested Development’s legal advisors were hired away from the Fox News Channel could not be confirmed at press time.
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We were under the impression that The Scorpion King was basically The Mummy 3, but apparently we were wrong, according to reports that Brendan Fraser and Stephen Sommers have discussed doing said film. Fraser is apparently eager to do a third entry in the franchise, which will depend on Sommers finding an interesting storyline. During promotional duties for his upcoming Looney Tunes: Back in Action film, Fraser was quoted as stating on the subject of Mummy 3, “I can't imagine there won't be one." One rumored plotline would entail legions of souls angered over paying eight bucks for Monkeybone chasing down Fraser and demanding their money back.
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Indicating that high-profile relationships and wacky cruel practical joke shows may not be all they’re cracked up to be comes word that Demi Moore’s boy-toy, Ashton Kutcher, has apparently lost out on starring opposite Kirsten Dunst in Cameron Crowe’s next film, Elizabethtown. The DreamWorks project, which follows the course of an unexpected romance that develops during a Southern patriarch's elaborate memorial, was originally scheduled to shoot in January, but production has now been pushed back to sometime in the spring, leading Kutcher to drop out doe to reported scheduling conflicts. With spring being prime hiatus time, this seems a bit strange, especially coming as it does on the heels of rumors that Stephen Soderbergh dropped Kutcher from consideration for his upcoming projects due to the star’s tabloid-courting romance with Moore and the less-than-pleasant reactions of some of the victims of Kutcher’s new show, Punk’d. Then again, Tom Green and Jamie Kennedy keep getting work, so what the hell do we know.
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