BOP Daily News
November 7, 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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Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong, best known for directing several Jackie Chan films, has been inked to helm Past Tense. The film will follow a Hong Kong police officer who teams with a San Francisco cop in order to dismantle an international crime ring. Rumors that the production company is trying to insure success by making the San Francisco lawman black or setting the action in the Old West could not be confirmed at press time.
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Dimension Films is developing the Stephen King short story 1408 for the screen. The tale centers on a successful horror writer who gets the proverbial taste of his own medicine when he stays in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Following in the tradition of big-screen adaptations of King horror stories, the film will suck, and King will eventually adapt a much better version for television.
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Singularly-named Tyrese, last seen in 2 Fast 2 Furious, will soon be starring in a film for which he wrote the treatment. MGM has greenlighted DA Verdict, which would feature Tyrese and an up-and-coming district attorney who must deal with the conflict between his job and those from his neighborhood that he has to prosecute. His conflicted emotions become apparent when his closing arguments all begin to rhyme.
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CBS, which has staked much of its recent primetime fortunes on reality programming, is adapting a BBC game show called Liar. The game pits six contestants against the audience for a cash prize. The contestants will all tell similar real-life experiences, but only one of them is telling the truth. Through a series of questions, the audience must eliminate the contestants who are being dishonest until they determine who is telling the truth. If the audience figures it out, they win the cash; if not, the person who fooled the audience goes home with the dosh. In order to make the game a bit more fair, career politicians, porn stars and advertising copywriters will automatically be eliminated from competition.
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Seems someone got up on the wrong side of the red carpet. Orlando Bloom had a bit of a hissy recently at the British Independent Film Awards over remarks by his Lord of the Rings co-star Ian McKellen. McKellen had joked to the press that he was only attending the awards show in hopes of giving Orlando a kiss. But when Bloom was asked about Sir Ian’s cheeky remarks, he angrily replied, “I’m not gay. I’ve got a girlfriend.” Well, well, well. Sounds like somebody’s trying to bury some mighty green memories.
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Universal is producing The Rules of Silence, based on the novel by the same name. The film will tell of an extortion plot by a group of Latin American gangsters against a Texas technology mogul. The gangsters threaten to kill the magnate’s family and friends unless he ponies up $64 million. In order to counteract the scheme, the tycoon enlists the help of a former special ops agent, likely with lots of gunfire and things blowing up real good. Rumors that the story was originally set in the state of Washington until an anonymous benefactor invested a large amount in the film could not be confirmed.
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