Kevin Smith’s New Movie Is For Dicks
TV shows are being cast all over the place because, even though it’s only May, the much hyped US fall season is just around the corner. Plus, Tom Cruise joins a movie and Adam Brody joins another.
After much rumouring, Tom Cruise has confirmed that he’ll star opposite Cam’ron D in the action-comedy Wichita. Hopefully it’ll be as successful an endeavour as the pair’s previous action-comedy, Vanilla Sky. [Variety]
As Bravo continues to take over America, one city at a time, they’ve turned their glowing, bloodthirsty eyes on southern Florida. This summer they’ll air six episodes of a show called Miami Social, about the fast-paced semi-youngs of Little Cuba. As it’s a social, we expect at least one episode devoted to a box luncheon. And lots of ice cream. [Variety]
Two sassy, sarcastic fellows are joining Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in a buddy action-comedy movie about stolen baseball cards that’s basically one long dick joke. Adam Brody and Sean William Scott have just signed onto the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks. Brody will play an exasperated (sarcastically!) detective, while Scott will play… um, the “Shit Bandit,” who poops wherever he burgles. Terrific. Ya still got it, Smithy! [THR]
Proving that he has not, in fact, been lost in the Andes or lying under a pile of old newspapers, calling out for help in vain, Freddie Prinze Jr. has joined the cast of 24. Next season he’ll play a returning Marine who wants to follow in old Jackie B’s footsteps. So good for him. And good for Sarah Michelle, who can now take a break from bringing home all that bacon. It gets heavy after a while, huh? [THR]
Oh, fun. John Lithgow, star of stage and screen, will go at it with Michael C. Hall (not in the sexy way) on Dexter next season. He’ll play a suburban dude with a secret. He’s cheating on his wife! Oh, wait, no that would be sorta forgivable. He’s a terrible serial killer, actually. [Variety]
Eesh, poor Reiko Aylesworth. Floating around for years, never getting the big bite, then her pilot The Forgotten gets picked up and… she’s dropped during retooling. Also out is the show’s lead, Rupert Penry-Jones. Everyone else seems OK. Phew… [THR]
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Does TV Guide have a target audience beyond Old People without a cable box (that now tell you when things are on), with Alzheimers(can't remember what time of day Jeopardy is on)?
bittergreen
Wait, Bravo is doing a show about non-affluent people?
bittergreen
@secretagentman: Boo! for stating the obvious (and not in a clever way, I might add). I seriously doubt I was the only one who found his marrying his television sister a bit kooky when you think about the nature of the show. Also, have you never seen an interview with Michael C. Hall? Dude is a little odd, perfect for the role, but still odd, which is great for portraying the macabre, making it all a bit strange and poignant as I stated. Thanks, though!
Spirit Fingers
@Smitros: Brothers Bloom!
Speaking of "dicks" in the investigational sense, what's happening with the guy who made Brick?
@Spirit Fingers: "Also, Lithgow on Dexter could be a stroke of genius, but I'm still not forgiving the whole sister/loving/wife thing Dexter...oh, I mean Michael C. Hall pulled off last year. Anybody else think that's just creeptasticlly strange and poignant?"
No. Because they are actors 'portraying' siblings, not actual siblings. Michael C. Hall doesn't kill people either. That we know of!!
secretagentman
production's going on in the building i'm working in. i saw Kevin Smith yesterday, wearing the same outfit he's got on in that picture, except that hat.
dude's getting old and bald, he should've been wearing the hat.
Robbie Brown
@El_Gato: His name was Sean.
Oh, I like Kevin Smith. His movies may have a lot of dumb jokes in them but he really is trying to talk about real things, which is not the case with a dozen of his stylish, dead-inside contemporaries. I laughed my ass off through Clerks 2 and I'm sure I'll be giggling at all the "turd burglar" jokes in the new one.
Perhaps Not
@bluebears: Ya know what, though? No movie of his has ever lost money. Look at the budgets.
Perhaps Not
Kevin Smith is still making movies? Christ. And what an awful storyline.
Plus the shit bandit character is a total ripoff of The Sopranos. Anyone who watched the show regularly knows that there was a character who committed heists with Christopher and Lilo Brancato's character and who always popped a squat during the robberies. In one squeamish line, Lilo Brancato turns to the character as he's pinching a loaf during a heist and says, "That's it, no more Mexican food before we go out on these things."
I forget the character's name, but he's the guy who later shoots Christopher.
PS: Yes, I do feel a little shame for knowing this.
El_Gato
Hey remember when having Kevin Smith come to your college and do like a fifteen hour personal voyage/stand up kinda/diatribe on the man love he has for Ben Affleck, Prince, and Jason Mewes ( the androgynous stoner that has a way big fascination with sharing soulmatehood with a large guy who sweats in big coats), was cool?! Maybe? Well now he's feeling all insecure about this whole Apatow takeover so now he has to prove his relevancy again with movies that could be funny if maybe Apatow made them. Yay!
Also, Lithgow on Dexter could be a stroke of genius, but I'm still not forgiving the whole sister/loving/wife thing Dexter...oh, I mean Michael C. Hall pulled off last year. Anybody else think that's just creeptasticlly strange and poignant?
Spirit Fingers
The only think I can say for Kevin Smith is that he had enough common sense not to make Green Hornet, or whatever that stupid superhero movie was that Miramax tried to shove onto him. Maybe now he'll have enough common sense to just cash out. America's caught onto you Kev, now it's your turn!
@Paul.B.Dodd: I think Clerks was a fluke. I didn't even really like Chasing Amy, the first half was funny but the second half was incredibly cheesy and overwrought.
Kevin Smith has lost whatever he had when he made Clerks and Chasing Amy. He needs to take a long vacation. Maybe Clerks was a fluke and we're now seeing the real Kevin Smith.
Paul.B.Dodd
I sure got excited when I thought the REAL Cam'Ron was gonna be doing something again...
Hey Kevin Smith is just sticking with what works at the box office every time! oh hang on...
Kevin Smith should just stick to his comic book store and go back to Leonardo and get snowballed.
Isn't Bravo also doing one about NY's Social Elite - Social Heights? That's the one I'm super pumped for!
Bravo is slowly taking over my life...
I'm going to go against the grain here, but not all the movies Kevin Smith has been tied to lately have completely sucked.
Zach and Miri Make a Porno was probably the funniest movie I've seen in a couple years. The whole sequence at the high school reunion (especially the Justin Long monologue) was f'ing hilarious.
@Grandma Death: How about the "Guy being shit on" sequence? Did you enjoy that bit of brilliance?