Can You Name the 6 Films Justin Timberlake Wants to 'Make Movies Like'?
Playboy's new interview with Justin Timberlake is the typical non-exposé where the Bad Teacher star cops to smoking pot, feeling awkward during Friends with Benefits's sex scenes, and other unbelievable feats. But near the Q&A's end, Timberlake spoke of his burgeoning status as a screen star and the six movies he'd like to "make movies like." Can you guess them?
Here's what I'd have guessed: Se7en (for Fincher cred); Ghost (because Timberlake fancies himself a loverman nephew to the Righteous Brothers); Dirty Dancing (because Timberlake reads "Swayze fixation" to me); Road House (etc.), Toy Story 2 (ahem, the "It's Gonna Be Me" video?), and Burglar (because Lesley Ann Warren hasn't played a dentist in almost 25 years). Let's see how I did.
PLAYBOY: Do you have a dream project in the back of your mind?
TIMBERLAKE: Not really. I know the movies I love, and I'd like to make movies like them. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, E.T., The Goonies, Reds, The Music Man. Seeing Fight Club changed the way I watch movies. It was so much smarter than anything I'd ever seen before, which is why working with David Fincher was such a bucket-list move. Making movies that can touch people the way any of those films did would be all I could hope for.
Ah, I was close with Se7en! But wait a minute: Did he, uh, just bring up Reds? Oh, Justin. Don't hit us with a 194-minute historical epic. Please. Don't quadruple-threat us like some well-falsettoed Beatty scion. And don't taint my second-favorite Stapleton's film legacy! (Team Jean.)
Apparently Timberlake The Actor is going to be with us for awhile. What kinds of movies would you prefer he make (or remake)?
· Playboy Interview: Justin Timberlake [Playboy]
[Photo: Getty Images]
Subscribe to the new Movieline on YouTube
Comments
Since you asked, I'd love to see Justin Timberlake do 3 or 4 in a row like Reds, then one like Music Man and top it off with a couple more like Reds, one like The Beastmaster then the next 40 years performing his one-man autobiographical play on small stages far from the bright lights.
Maybe when they cast Lea Michele in the _Funny Girl_ remake, JTim could be cast as Nicky Arnstein?
Mr. Timberlake should portray Julien in Brett Ratner's remake of Elevator to the Gallows, with co-star Megan Fox as Florence, Shia LaBeouf as Simon, along with an improvised soundtrack by Rebecca Black, featuring hooks by Justin Bieber. They should change the setting to have it all go down in Silver Lake, and there will be explosions and super hot fauxhemian chicks everywhere.
I'd like to see Justin do a couple of comedies, but the trailer for "Bad Teacher" looks horrendous. I'd like him to do a Judd Apatow film or three. For such a driven guy, he comes across as very down-to-earth and likable.
I'd like to see him in something where he can put the fake accent he adpots when he's promoting his records to use, such as a biopic of Eminem or a remake of "Pootie Tang".
Wow. That is vivid.
It's not hard to imagine him having a Ewan McGregor-style career, if that's what he's interested in. After about 5 years of that, he'll luck into a BOURNE IDENTITY-esque action thriller franchise and amaze everyone with his Matt Damon-like ability to turn from indies to blockbuster action flicks... and then one day he'll be the new James Bond, and we'll all nod our heads at how fitting it seems.
Oh boy, thanks for the good laugh. Bravo.
I think he should do a remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet, then a remake of On the Town, then something Hitchcockian, a dash of the Greg Kinnear role in As Good as It Gets, a remake of Holiday, a new Coen brothers movie, and then the world is his oyster. If it isn't already.
But really, I would like him to grow his hair back. Nothing wrong with curly, Justin. Us curly folk must unite!
He never saw "Reds". He said that to sound smart.
You are 100% right.
Justin the musician is amazing. Justin the actor is insufferable. Reds?! Really?!