BOP Daily News
March 25, 2004
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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It’s only natural that when a producer needs to cast an American actor in a comedy based in Ireland, his first instinct would be to cast Eddie Griffin, right? Griffin is set to star in John Eyre’s film about the people of an indebted small Irish town who decide to hold a Poem writing contest in order to raise funds so that they can pay off their creditors and keep their town. The prize for winning the contest is one of the local pubs. Enter Griffin, who will play a con-artist/crook/scumbag who wins the contest and who brings a little spice into this Irish town. The film is tentatively titled Irish Jam, which is much more merciful than the once proposed Waking Ned Devine Brown.
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Ed Harris and Woody Harrelson have been tapped to star in 3000 Degrees, the tragic story of a massive storage building fire that claimed the lives of 6 Massachusetts fire fighters. To be produced by Brian Grazer, the project will be directed by Danny Boyle whose last film, 28 Days Later, was a surprise hit this past summer. The project is based on a book by Sean Flynn. Billy Crudup is in negotiation to co-star. Harrelson was not quoted as saying “Dude, with a blaze that big, you could probably light like a hundred joints.”
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Will Smith will produce and star in The Mark for Nickelodeon Movies. Based on an idea by former comic book artist Rob Liefeld, Smith will play a man who gets super powers after a mark from the body of a confederate soldier is mysteriously transferred onto his body. The film will first go through a script rewrite by Gregg Chabot and Kevin Peterka and will be followed up by animated television show that is set to air on Spike TV. Having been privy to Liefeld’s work in comics, we can say that there’s a good chance that the animated series might never air.
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