BOP Daily News
December 1, 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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Ian McKellen fancies a big ape. Well, actually, he’s looking to play a role in Peter Jackson’s version of King Kong. Following reports that Andy Serkis will appear in the project, McKellen has says of the film, “(Jackson) did say he might have something for me to do in King Kong, and I hope that's true." Upon hearing the news that his LotR mates Jackson and McKellen may soon be working together again, Orlando Bloom issued a statement that he is absolutely not gay.
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Clive Owen, widely rumored to have been tapped as Pierce Brosnan’s replacement once the current Bond gives up his license to kill, has put the kibosh on stories that he’s already secured the role of the legendary British secret agent. According to Owen, he doesn’t pay a lot of attention to these stories, but that he has been receiving congratulations from all quarters for winning the part of Bond, even though the reports having him as Bond are nothing but baseless rumors. Owen says, “It's nothing to do with me. There's a lot of bullshit in this game.” Owen believes his name was thrown into the Bond ring because he wore a tux in his film Croupier and appeared in several BMW short films, which he sarcastically referred to as “inspired casting”. In the spirit of Clive’s announcement, BOP would like to state that we are not being considered a candidate for the new Bond. We are also not being considered for the new Superman, the new Batman, the new Spider-Man, the new Hulk, or any other c comic-book character coming to a theatre near you. However, we do understand we have an outside shot at playing a corpse in the next Troma extravaganza, and if The Simpsons ever gets made into a feature film, we’re keeping our fingers crossed about Sideshow Bob.
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Dueling flower-girls. No, that’s not some new take on the theme song from Deliverance; it’s what’s on the movie horizon for next year. First Regency put Flowergirl into production, and now Warner Bros has greenlighted Flower Girl. Regency’s project is described as Annie Hall for 11-year-olds, and Warner’s film is touted as Home Alone at a wedding, and follows the antics of a 12-year-old girl who teams up with her soon-to-be-stepbrother to break up their parents’ wedding. We’re not sure which high-concept sounds more likely to produce a lousy film, but we think if the two studios combined the films, made the flower girls older and put them in a no-holds-barred catfight, they’d get better box office. Not to mention having a far more interesting film.
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"Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?"
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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