Hollywood Ink: How Your A-Team Sausage Party Was Made

a-team-ink.jpg· To the extent that The A-Team has a script, it was reportedly patched together by a total of 11 screenwriters including Kevin Broadbin, Bruce Feirstein, Jayson Rothwell, Laurence M. Konner and Mark Rosenthal, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, [inhaaaale] Skip Woods, Joe Carnahan & Brian Bloom, and Mathew Carnahan. So don't think of it as any old bucket of shit cynically thrown on pop culture's wall -- this is a painstakingly crafted tapestry. A painstakingly crafted fecal tapestry, but still. Credit where credit is due. [Deadline]

Michael Sheen and Toni Collette find Jesus, Tim Burton and John August may (still) re-team, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Michael Sheen and Toni Collette will co-star in Jesus Henry Christ, about a young test-tube genius who goes in search of his biological father. Filming is underway in Toronto; outraged fundamentalist protests are underway in 3... 2... [Variety]

· Tim Burton and his semi-frequent collaborator John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish) have yet another rumored project together: Monsterpocalypse, the game adaptation currently in the early development stage at DreamWorks. This may preempt their other, longer-gestating adaptation of Dark Shadows, which relies anyway on Johnny Depp's dodgy schedule after shooting The Tourist. Developing... [THR]

· F. Gary Gray is now the front-runner to direct Kane & Lynch, the forthcoming video-game adaptation starring Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx. The previous director, stunt coordinator and second-unit chief Simon Crane, walked because of "creative differences." One can only presume he wanted to attempt to make it good. That'll teach him. [THR]

· Universal wants Bourne franchise originator and Oscar-nominated writer-director Tony Gilroy back to write a fourth installment of the series. Matt Damon probably isn't in, a scenario for which I only have five words in response: Tom Hardy, come on down! [Deadline]



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  • Martini Shark says:

    Imagine when the Oscar nominations come out and their byzantine rules for who properly qualifies for listing under the ADAPTED SCREENPLAY category -- that battle may exceed anything that occurs on screen.