BOP Daily News
April 1, 2004
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This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Keanu Reeves will once again be inhabiting a future world in his next movie, A Scanner Darkly. Based on a story by Philip K Dick, the project will be shot in live action and then animated. It takes place in a society where undercover agents can change not only their identities but their faces. Reeves will play such an agent whose overuse of a drug called Substance D causes him to develop a split personality. Audiences everywhere are hoping at least one of the personalities will be able to act.
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Ronny Yu, filling in time before the Freddy vs Jason sequel goes into production, is working on another film, this one a thriller called Snakes on a Plane. For those of you unable to discern the plot from the title, the story revolves around a flight from Honolulu to LA, and poisonous snakes are released mid-flight. The first victim is reportedly the plane’s pilot. We vote that the second victim should be the screenwriter.
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A recent interview given by Mark Bomback, screenwriter for the upcoming film Godsend, confirms that there will be a fourth installment in the Die Hard series, although according to Bomback, rumors that the film will be called Die Hardest are incorrect. Bruce Willis has reportedly not yet fully committed to the film, but the project is, at the moment, still apparently a go. Few details were available concerning the plot of Bomback’s script, and rumors that Willis will face off against a much younger villain who wants to embark on a public romance with John McClane’s wife in order to further his own career could not be confirmed at press time.
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In an unprecedented move, it was announced today that Universal, Paramount and Warner Bros will merge to create one giant studio. The new studio, to be called Parasal Bros, would become the largest movie-producing entity in history, and the combined slate would constitute just over one-quarter of the product being released into theatres in the coming months. Wall Street reaction to the giant merger was swift, with stocks of the three former studios rising sharply, and Disney - one of the few studios able to even muster any competition against Parasal Bros - stock plummeting to just over $1.98 a share. Those interested in learning more about this astounding merger should check out the date at the top of this column.
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