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Paramount Offers Brett Ratner First-Hack Deal
Posted by Seth at 6:10 AM on August 1, 2008
· With New Line but a shadowy shingle of its former self, Billion Dollar Director Brett Ratner is packing up the Rat Entertainment boxes and moving onto the Paramount lot to marinate in soulmentor Bob Evans's pungent creative vapors. He pledges to no one in particular, "I will not be pitching art films. I want to make mainstream tentpole projects." [Variety]
· The End of Ideas: King of All Media Edition: Howard Stern is producing a remake of Rock 'n' Roll High School to be written by Alex "Bill & Ted" Winters. [Variety]
· Discovery Channel is launching a reality show that will attempt to execute many of Leonardo Da Vinci's conceptualized inventions, either sending contestants soaring on the winds of 16th Century innovation, or plunging to their bat-winged-flying-contraption deaths. [THR]
· The Dark Knight nudges Warner Bros. profits overseas past the $1 billion mark. [THR]
· Sam Raimi will direct The Transplants for Disney, details of which they're staying vague about save that it's a "four-quadrant ensemble superhero story with a comedic bent," each a vaguely horrifying ethnic stereotype. [THR]
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Juancho
Posted 6:40 AM 1/8/08
Is Brett's hairline starting to go?
Juancho
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 6:39 AM 1/8/08
I will be pitching VOMIT, not ARTY VOMIT
Huge Tracts of Land
Old No.7
Posted 6:34 AM 1/8/08
Here Brett, I've got a tentpole you can work on.
Old No.7
Victor Ward
Posted 6:29 AM 1/8/08
Thank god Brett took the time to clear that up.
Victor Ward
Juancho
Posted 6:56 AM 1/8/08
@Breadbowl: He's always been a pretty big guy- proof in the maxim that if you have "power" and "prestige", you can pull hot tail.
Juancho
Breadbowl
Posted 6:53 AM 1/8/08
@Juancho: He's getting fleshier too...
Breadbowl
Barbarella
Posted 6:51 AM 1/8/08
Seth, I had such faith you would pull that Brett Ratner quote today that I didn't feel the need to "tip" it to you after it caused me to spit out my coffee with its... wait for it... awesomeness.
Seth, you, like NPH's Barney, rule.
Barbarella
Caroline Meeber
Posted 6:43 AM 1/8/08
Brett Ratner said "pitching... tentpole" Tee hee hee.
Caroline Meeber
MCU
Posted 7:54 AM 1/8/08
@Juancho: Or, lacking either of those apparently, a "fuckload of money".
MCU
Readsforaliving
Posted 8:52 AM 1/8/08
I read that post too fast. At first I thought it said Discovery Channel was launching a reality show where they would execute Leonardo DiCaprio's inventions and that made no sense...but then most reality pitches don't make sense to me anyway.
Readsforaliving
Wrapitup
Posted 9:22 AM 1/8/08
Who is the bigger asshole: the RatHack or the borg asshole consisting of the millions who loved Rush Hour 3?
Wrapitup
gwendemarco
Posted 12:15 PM 1/8/08
Yeah, dude, it's Ratt. I'm in the Clara Bow Building. Hehehe. Yeah. In Clara Bow! Schwing!
gwendemarco
Oxycontinmoron
Posted 1:32 AM 2/8/08
Great, now maybe he'll be able to afford that razor he's had his eye on.
Oxycontinmoron