BOP Daily News
November 19, 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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OK, this just officially got weirder. Exorcist: The Beginning, the upcoming prequel film in the Exorcist franchise, already holds the dubious distinction of having a director be replaced after the film has completed principal photography. Now come reports that the Warner Bros project is getting a rewrite, earning it yet another place in the Hollywood record books. Apparently current director Renny Harlin, brought in when Paul Schrader left due to - say it with me now, boys and girls - “creative differences”, has decided that the six weeks of reshoots he has planned need to be rewritten as well. Which sounds like they’re planning on redoing about half the film. After it was finished. And in post-production. The movie’s current tagline is “There is no God here”. We’re thinking the production folk have that one as a sampler on the wall.
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Richard Donner, apparently not content in torturing moviegoers with a sequel to The Goonies, is looking to make a fifth film in the Lethal Weapon franchise. Donner reportedly has a story already mapped out, which would follow Mel Gibson’s Riggs and Danny Glover’s Murtaugh through an entire day-in-the-life. The director says he wants to “put the franchise to bed properly”, and that this Lethal Weapon-cum-24 concept would be the final film in the franchise. According to Donner, Gibson has recently seemed “really interested” in doing yet another Lethal Weapon film. Just wait till The Passion of Jesus Christ debuts, Richard; we’re thinking you won’t be able to get the contract to Mel fast enough.
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If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then television is the most flattering medium of the 21st century. And just as surely as starlets have boob jobs and diet to the point of being X-rays, so will TV take a successful idea and keep doing it over and over and over until they’ve run it into the ground. So if you can’t get enough of the farce known as Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica, then you’re in luck, because the good folks at MTV are bringing you yet another celebrity couple trussed by the bonds of holy matrimony. Or about to be, anyway, since Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave, will follow Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro as they prepare for their nuptials. The mini-series, which will end with the actual wedding, will cover the planning stages, the bachelor and bachelorette parties, and hey, who knows; if it ends during sweeps, maybe the wedding night itself. While we have nothing against Mr Navarro, we can’t help but think Carmen would have had a better chance at topping the spectacle that is the Nick and Jessica show if she’d made the series during her first marriage.
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