If They Make Footloose With Sparklevampires You Will Be In Heaven
Today we have some bad news about Footloose, some good news about The Fighter, and some unexpected surprises from old friends.
Oh dear God. Porcelain sex robot Chace Crawford will be Ren McCormack. Though Zac Efron was long ago maybe going to star in the upcoming Footloose, he backed out because, you know, no homo. So the Gossip Girl actor has now been cast and the whole movie has sprung a leak. [Variety]
Oh, good. The up-and-coming young actress Melissa Leo has been cast in David O. Russell’s The Fighter, playing Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale’s mums. [Variety]
Jackass Chris Pontius has just been called up to the artsy leagues. He’ll play a role in auteur Sofia Coppola’s new movie Somewhere. Playing the lead in that movie about a fried-out rock ‘n roller living at the Chateau Marmont? None other than our old, long-lost friend Stephen Dorff. Good for him. Elle Fanning is also in it. So. [THR]
Lostie Matthew Fox has left ICM for the new mega-agency WME, forged in the volcanic fires of William Morris and Endeavor’s god-like lovemaking. So hopefully for Fox this means less Speed Racer and Vantage Point and more, well… anything else. [Variety]
Good news for those of you helplessly addicted to those wonderful crystals, those glassy things that burn and smolder and give you energy and keep you up for hours, and are dangerous in that “I’m alive!” kind of way. No, Ricky your meth dealer hasn’t figured out the science from Breaking Bad (”I want blue meth like the TV, and I want it now.”) It’s just that Robert Pattinson’s sparkly vampire skin diamonds will be twinkling for a fourth Twilight movie. Aren’t you happy? [THR]
Huh. Benjamin Bratt’s dirge-like A&E drama The Cleaner has been picked up for a second season. So, well, that’s nice. [Variety]
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@tigerpop: Coppola needs to crank those things out a little more quickly, though. Don't deny us the good stuff, Sonia.
Sofia Coppola's "Party Boy" should be the arthouse hit of the year.
I thought the bad news was that they are remaking Footloose.
@DahlELama: You MUST see this movie! Yes, it's cheesy, but it's also perfectly cast and surprisingly well acted. Kevin Bacon, Chris Penn, John Lithgow, Lori Singer, Diane Wiest, Sarah Jessica Parker! Trust me, it's good stuff.
So long as they use Denise Williams's Let's Here It For the Boy on the Footloose soundtrack, do we really care who is in the movie?
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I am probably going to watch that? Something about Chace Crawford acting (ok not really acting) in Footloose would just suck me into its black hole of blank stares.
@Paul.B.Dodd: They always were. IN THEIR CLOSETS!
I just picked up a Blue-Meth DVD player. It's a trip!
Every time I see Footloose I am always amazed by how these rural, country bumpkin teenagers are suddenly transformed into dancing impresarios at their prom in the final scene. You would have never known that dancing was banned in that town. When the ban was lifted these teenagers magically broke the shackles creative restraints and started pop and lock and breakdancing like they've been doing it their whole lives. This is a magical movie. A magical movie.
Paul.B.Dodd
@DahlELama: There wasn't any singing in the original.
I can't even talk about Chace in Footloose. Seriously, just no. He is best seen and not heard.
Confession--I never saw the original Footloose. Is dancing the only skill that's required, or are we going to be forced to listen to the prettyboy attempt to sing as well?
(I use "we" loosely here, as I don't plan to see the remake either.)
DahlELama
As long as they don't make Footloose with Sparkle Motion (committed as they are...well most of them).
BTW, I'm sure Melissa Leo will appreciate the "up-and-coming/young" description, but she's actually a veteran who did 5 seasons on Homicide: Life on the Street.
@Disco-Johnson: and dreams. you can't take away dreams.
This Footloose casting bothers the hell out of me. Bacon's character was supposed to be rebellious and hot enough to lead good Baptist girls to the dark side of dancing and "Let's Here it For the Boys". Chace Crawford can not play anything convincingly, especially rebellious or lets say "straight". This will be a disaster and if any asshole in the country world comes close to remaking any Kenny Loggins song on that soundtrack, I will blow up Nashville.
@DahlELama: No singing, but we do have to believe he likes to fuck girls, so already this will be one hell of a challenge for Chase.