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Trade Roundup: Michael Bay Wonders How We Can Sex-Up A Basically Solid 'Rosemary's Baby' Premise
Posted by Seth at 8:45 AM on March 13, 2008
· Hollywood Out of Ideas: Michael Bay Instigating Another Completely Unnecessary Horror-Classic Remake Edition. After the announced despoiling of A Nightmare on Elm Street by his Platinum Dunes "horror shingle," the director is in talks to produce a remake of Rosemary's Baby for Paramount. Look for Megan Fox to star as the totally babealicious swimsuit model knocked up by Shia LaSatan. [THR]
· Ugly Betty showrunner Silvio Horta has signed a two-year, mid-seven-figure pact with ABC Studios to continue his Betty duties, and develop other series for the studio. [Variety]
· Finicky Hulk Edward Norton and highly blogpinionated Endeavor head Ari Emanuel are shopping around a documentary about Barack Obama's presidential bid. Some studios have expressed interest, so long as it's on a "happy-ending-contingent basis...And we think you know what we mean...Wink, wink..." [Variety]
· An historic SAG/AFTRA Accord has been reached in order to present a united front in the upcoming negotiations for a feature-primetime contract. (Does that include primetime-features? We don't know, but we imagine it does!) It all went down in Peter Chenin's office, but fellow Mt. Mogulmore models Robert Iger and Les Moonves couldn't make it, for out-of-town and lunch-eating reasons, respectively. [Variety]
· The Tribeca Film Festival, beginning April 23, has announced this year's lineup, a much leaner program than last year's overstuffed affair. While Baby Mama will open the festival, it's Melvin Van Peeble's Confessions of an Ex-DoofusItchyFooted Mutha that has us most intrigued, if we're basing our interest on title alone. [Variety]
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RocketRockit
Posted 8:43 AM 13/3/08
The things I would do to "Shia LaSatan"...
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strunkywhiteness
Posted 8:43 AM 13/3/08
And I love you for writing "AN historic."
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brilliantmistake
Posted 9:44 AM 13/3/08
Given Bay's "blow'em all up and let the editors sort it out" approach to film making, I think whichever hapless starlet takes on Mia Farrow's role needs to have her prothestic baby-belly checked daily by the bomb squad.
Nicholas Cage, I assume, will take on Ruth Gordon's part.
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DukeLaCrosse
Posted 10:29 AM 13/3/08
@RocketRockit: Hands off!
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Readsforaliving
Posted 2:42 PM 13/3/08
Oh please, let it be Katie. It's just too perfect. Paul Bettany in the Cassavetes role. harvey Fierstein is the new Ruth Gordon. Sorry, I'm a little goofy on Mike-aritas.
Readsforaliving
cinerama
Posted 5:08 PM 13/3/08
To be fair, Bay's productions aren't usually action flicks - he has to be directing to bring quality "Bayhem" to screen.
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MCU
Posted 3:22 AM 14/3/08
Yeah, so I'm dating myself, but oh, say, ten years ago in every single development meeting in Hollywood, execs were saying, "You know, what we're really looking for is a smart horror script like Rosemary's Baby." And every writer in Hollywood subsequently had, somewhere on one of their writing burners, a smart horror script like Rosemary's Baby that they'd bring up to pitch if anyone so much as sneezed.
So I guess everyone just gave the fuck up?
Actually, this truly puzzles me. Michael Bay has always been — yeah, I'm a-gonna say it — a bit of an enigma to me. Yeah, he's that mysterious. Because I literally cannot figure out if he takes himself seriously. It's easy to think the guy's just textbook-deluded about the movies he makes in order to not immediately kill himself for what he's done to modern cinema. Then he goes and does something like that Verizon ad where he seems to actually make fun of his blow-everything-up image. Or is he making fun? I don't know! He's an enigma!
Anyway. My point is that I can't for the life of me imagine how he sees this remake. He's got to know the Rosemary's Baby is on The List, and the mere whiff of remaking it elicits the same stomach-convulsing reaction as Bennifer wanting to remake Casablanca (holy shit, remember that? Remember them?) Does Bay actually think this remake will be good? In any way whatsoever? Or, more importantly, does he care?
Head spinning. Must stop. Michael Bay. An enigma. Hollywood's own freaking Riddle of the Sphinx.
MCU
cinerama
Posted 4:57 PM 14/3/08
You would think he would worry about "The List," but consider his firm has been long linked with a rumored remake of The Birds, and of course don't forget that Universal, the home of Hitch, dared to do a shot-by-shot "reimaging" of Psycho.
The mental image of Vince Vaughn masturbating to Anne Heche in the shower is one I gladly would do without and dare say nothing Mr. Bay could possibly do would prove quite as disturbing.
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