Mark Wahlberg Hopes to Bait Audiences With Action Comedy, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Tyler Perry does a good deed for Lionsgate... Warner Bros. saddles up with Wyatt Earp... The Hobbit adds a Conchord... and more ahead.
· Moss don't grow on a Mark Wahlberg. The very busy actor -- who is presumably training for The Fighter 2 -- is attached to the spec script Bait and Switch which was just acquired by Universal. No word yet on the plot, beyond that Bait will be an action comedy. Persnickety film critics are hoping this one gets made, if only because they already thought of 31 pun-y headlines. [Variety]
· Movieline hero Tyler Perry will write, direct and star in Good Deeds for Lionsgate. He'll play "Glen Deeds, a successful entrepreneur who is about to get married but falls for a down-on-her-luck single mom." That premise actually sounds cool -- and doesn't include Madea -- so keep your snickering to a minimum. [Deadline]
· Sometimes you wonder what took so long. Warner Bros. has picked up the spec script Wild Guns, which would feature a post-Civil War Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday teaming up to save the kidnapped daughter of Sitting Bull. Guns is "described as having shades of Tombstone and Sherlock Holmes," so Robert Downey Jr. should keep his cellphone volume on high. [THR/Heat Vision]
· Peter Jackson has cast Bret McKenzie in The Hobbit. The former Flight of the Conchords star will play the hipster version of an elf. [THR/Heat Vision]
· With Tron Legacy hauling in just under $400 million in worldwide grosses (who knew?), talk of a sequel seems slightly less ridiculous. As such: "I think that we are working on the story now," director Joseph Kosinski told HitFix. "If we can come up with the right story and a good reason to return, than absolutely. I'd love to go back. But, it probably won't be the next thing I do." Noted. [HitFix]
· You'll have to wait a little bit longer to enroll in Monsters University. Pixar has pushed the film back from Nov. 2, 2012 to June 21, 2013. Gives them time to work on that logo. [/Film]
· Disney is finally set to break ground on a theme park in Shanghai. [WSJ]
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"Persnickety film critics are hoping this one gets made, if only because they already thought of 31 pun-y headlines."
Ha! Perfect.
I would love to see, "Wild Guns" with Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr - now that would be worth any amount of money to see!!! Val Kilmer did, in fact, play Doc Holiday in Tombstone. Robert has the dark hair and brooding eyes and , of course, eccentricities of Wyatt Earp! He also has the stunt experience etc. from his previous movies. If Robert can help get Val's weight and shape together again, this could be one heck of a wild ride! I hope these two get offered the parts - they work great together and can teach each other alot. Two fantastic actors, I would pay to see together.