BOP Daily News
November 22, 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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George Clooney is reportedly the frontrunner to fill Tom Selleck’s shoes as Thomas Magnum when the big-screen version of Magnum PI starts production. According to friends, Clooney has longed to play the eponymous gumshoe from the popular ‘80s TV show and that landing the part completes a triumvirate of roles the former ER star has coveted since he began acting: Danny Ocean in Ocean’s Eleven, Hannibal Smith in The A-Team and Magnum. With Ocean’s Eleven hitting theatres in 2001 and an A-Team film adaptation already in the works, Clooney will have fulfilled his long-held fantasy by inking Magnum. Rumors that his next yearned-for trinity are Uncle Jesse from the Dukes of Hazzard, Captain Stubing from Love Boat and Tattoo from Fantasy Island could not be confirmed at press time.
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Dimension Films is looking to the Arthurian legend for what it hopes will be its next franchise, as it is reportedly considering greenlighting The Lost Years of Merlin, a film based on the first in a popular series of books. The five books in the series tell the story of how Merlin came to be the powerful wizard who helped make Arthur a king; the first film would focus on a young Merlin’s early years and how he learns his destiny. In hopes of ensuring the film’s popularity, thus cementing chances for a franchise, Dimension reportedly plans to five gay guys give Merlin his wizard makeover.
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It’s been a while since BOP News has had the chance to report on one of its favorite subjects, Tony Scott, but it appears Ridley’s little brother is about to get his long-in-Development Hell production of the Clifford Irving novel Tom Mix and Pancho Villa off the ground. The story, which Tony high-concepts as Lawrence of Arabia meets The Wild Bunch, paints Mix as an idealistic young actor who leaves Texas to join up with the Mexican revolutionary who supposedly had an aversion to using the technology of the day. According to Scott, the film is "a love story between two men from different planets, who educated each other,” with Villa apparently teaching Mix the rules of life, and Mix educating Villa on the advantages of mechanization. The film is reportedly epic in scope, using “trains, cavalry, (and) thousands of soldiers in uniform and on horseback," according to the director. Despite the image that sentence conjures, Tony Scott is not a ten-year-old boy.
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If Hollywood isn’t careful, it’s going to run out of comic books to adapt to the big screen. Until then, however, yet another comic-book superhero is slated for feature-film treatment. The cult comic Astro City is set on a world where superhuman beings make up the populace, and share their planet with rampaging monsters, invading aliens, super-villains and mad scientists. Personally, we can’t wait to see whether Frankenstein’s Monster wear boxers or briefs, and which supermarket Superman and The Wolfman patronize.
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"If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to why don’t you go where fashion sits?
Putting on the Ritz."
Box Office Prophets offers quality, reliable news about the entertainment industry. BOP is also entertaining. To that end, please be advised that some content in this column is intended to be humorous and should not be considered factual.
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