Paul Potts - The Movie

What Next Su-Bo the opera? well Simon Cowell is on board as producer...

According to Risky Business Paramount are going to try to rush through production in time for next summer's Britain's got talent final. They're describing it in "Rocky" terms as a triumph of the undergdog type schtick.

Frankly I think it's a load of nonsense. We don't need a film of this man's triumph, it's already been blanket documented! What more could a film possibly offer? who will they cast to play Potts? if he's to play himself can the fucker act? probably not.

Good news is, it's to be shot in England with English accents, I'm just not sure how well mawkish sentimentality with cheeky chappy awraight luv? englishness (i'm looking at you Matthew Vaughn...). At Least mooted director Julian Jarrold has some decent films under his belt (Red Riding most notably).

Besides all this, nothing's going to top his first audition. You can't remake that shit. That first audition is a climax that can't be stretched out over 90 minuets.

Jazz Hands! 'A Star is (re-)Born'

THR is reporting that Warner Bros have tapped up Will Fetters ('Remember me') to draft a new version of the classic tale of rise and fall in the Hollywood machine. Rumours abound that Beyonce could fill Judy's rather impressive boots, but frankly at this stage it's anybody's guess. 

Creation finally picks up a US distributor.

After receiving a largely warm reception at the Toronto Film Festival it was rather disappointing that the Darwin biopic failed to garner much interest from US distributors. It could have been that the religious right aren't really that keen on the whole 'evolution' thing... so a level or reticence was, perhaps, understandable. nobody wants to inflame that bunch of crazies. That said, it might have had more to do with Jen Con's permanently slapped face.

Indie film floggers Newmarket are the lucky puppies who've picked up the rights, and it should hit cinemas around christmas.

*coughoscarbaitingcough*

"Sweet Valley High - the teenage pregnancy years"?

(doesn't she look pleased?)       

Universal are on a roll, They've hooked Diablo Cody up with the rights to Francine Pascall's epic (150 books at last count) chronicle of adolescence in Sweet Valley, California.  No word on casting or plot, but they have a hell of a lot of hi jinks to get through. 


To be honest I never really got into SVH it was all a white bread and butter. At fourteen though I got fucking obsessed with Pascall's other series "Fearless", about a girl born without the capacity to feel fear. She was badass, and went round at night getting in fights and playing chess in the park with bums. The books are full of fuck ups, drug addicts, near incest, abandonment, murder, kidnap, extortion, crips, and crazies. And they're set in New York, which ass fucks Southern California with a rusty pole.

Finally! Barbie the movie!

After half a century of phenomenal success as a toy, Barbie is finally set to star in her very own movie. Universal have acquired the rights to produce a film based on the 50 year old icon. It's surprising when according to Matell Barbie has 99% global brand awareness, you'd have thought they'd have tapped that shit a long time ago. Matell have been pretty protective of babs in the past so it's going to be interesting to see how this one pans out. Universal have a pretty miute line to tread between the image of a sexehfied bombshell on screen, and the attendant in jokes needed to hook the adult fanbase, with the squeaky clean image Matell have built

Also, how are they going to explain how a high school senior can be the president, a pilot, a nurse, a popstar, and a teacher all at once...

Not quite sure how they're going to cast it though, I mean i'm pretty sure those slammin stats don't translate well into reality. As the the BBC pointed out a while ago...

Seriously though, who the hell can live up to the impossible ideal? Brigite Bardot is kinda over the hill for this gig. Heather Graham Maybe?

'cept maybe a bit old... and pottymouthed... Maybe Sophie Monk?

Any better ideas?

(reuters)