This morning, while interviewing the cast of Entourage about their final season on HBO (premiering Sunday), Matt Lauer begged to know whether they would consider adapting their series into a film. "We're going to try really hard to make that happen," Kevin Connolly promised the Today host and fans. But are you even interested in an Entourage film?
Ever since HBO programming president Michael Lombardo announced last summer that Entourage's eighth season would be its final one, the network has been fielding questions about taking Vince, Drama, E, Ari and Turtle to the big screen. At the time, Lombardi told press that creator Doug Ellin "wants to write a film, but wants to do it when the story will make sense."
Then, this December, executive producer Mark Wahlberg added fuel to the fire by telling EW, "We want to make [a movie] happen [but] we won't make it if we don't have a good script."
And now, the last televised adventures of Vince & Co. begin on Sunday, leaving just two months worth of episodes and accompanying speculation about an Entourage film -- at least until the series finale on September 11 (what better way to commemorate a national tragedy than with a series closer that references "Pamela Anderson's tit size" and involves Vince shooting another lucrative foreign commercial?*).
But it's not up to me -- it's up to the studios... and the audiences! Would you like to see an Entourage movie, or would you rather not pay $12 to see Turtle pick up more extras for Drama to bang or Drama destroy another car with a six-iron or Ari give someone else awesome U2 tickets? (I personally, would be all for a movie that depicts the gang battling rumors that Vince is gay, as Movieline suggested for the show's seventh season.)
Or would your money be better spent on a film adapted from a series that did not enjoy quite as lengthy a television run -- like Party Down or Friday Night Lights, again? Tell us in the comment section below.
*I'm guessing.
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