5 Can't-Miss Pairings for Gene, Walden's Genie Buddy Movie

3. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe: Reteaming after 3:10 to Yuma's success, Bale portrays a hot-tempered studio executive whose shouty incantations for "more f***ing ketchup, goddamnit" one day during lunch creates a growly vision of semi-obeisance from the pub-style Heinz jar left behind. Their argument over whether Bale's condiment request counts as a wish deteriorates into a bruising, profane, opposites-attract laff riot of high-powered Hollywood egos.

4. Katherine Heigl and Zach Galifianakis: How about a romcom-buddy movie? Galifianakis's amiable genie offers Heigl's complacent Manhattan lawyer three bulletproof bits of counsel on how to woo the hot new associate at her office. The priceless vibrating anal beads sequence would likely be vetoed by the family-friendly suits at Walden, but along with the inevitable prospect of a Heigl/Galifianakis love scene, it'll drive those unrated-DVD sales through the roof.

5. Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg: Hot off Antichrist, their rollicking masterpiece of sex, death, chaos and mutilation, this duo's feisty chemistry should not -- nay, cannot -- go to waste. In this follow-up, Gainsbourg plays a dead toddler's bereft mother whose difficulty opening her child-proofed Xanax bottle produces hallucinations of a soothing voice (Dafoe) inside the tiny plastic container. Unable to release the genie and make the three wishes that will undoubtedly improve her life, she cuts the fingers off her right hand before finally chewing the lid off with her teeth. Alas, no genie. A writer of of Singer's prodigious talents can no doubt make this funny.

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