One of the more bizarre yet intriguing movies of 2012 is Rock Of Ages, based on the Broadway musical that takes a whole host of 80s hair metal tunes from the likes of Def Leppard and Foreigner, and mixes it with the story of small town girl called Sherrie and city boy called Drew, who meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams. If you watch the trailer, it’s more than a little bizarre, but could be a lot of fun. It’s just a shame that while there’s a big build up to seeing Tom Cruise as rocker Stacee Jaxx, we don’t get to see him rock out! It’s due in UK cinemas June 8th.
Russell Brand Plans To Steal The President’s Girlfriend
Despite the fact that it doesn’t seem audiences are all that interested in him as a movie star, Russell Brand is trying to turn that around, and now has a new film up his sleeve that he plans to both produce and star in. According to THR, he’s attached to The President Stole My Girlfriend for Warner Bros.
Matt Portenoy, who recently finished a draft of the long-in-development Porky’s remake, has written the screenplay, which, according to Brand, was inspired by the night he invited Warner Bros. President Jeffrey Robinov to dinner. The story will follow a ‘sexy hippie’ who loses his girl to the President (as if nowadays a signle man could get elected to the top office in America).
The movie will be the first film out of Brand’s new production company, Branded Films.
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Ben Stiller Joins Rentaghost
While I still can’t quite get my head around Hollywood making a movie out of 1970s/1980s children’s BBC sitcom Rentaghost, it almost made sense when Russell Brand was up for the lead role. However it appears he’s now left and none other than Ben Stiller has been brought in to replace him, according to Deadline. It’s all a bit surreal really.
The US version is being sold as a ‘Beetlejuice-style afterlife comedy’, which is a bit of a change from the original, which was definitely kid-centric and revolved around a couple, Harold and Ethel Meaker, who run a business called Rentaghost, where they hire out ghouls to the general public. As a result their house is filled with an unusual assortment of the deceased, including medieval court jester Timothy Claypole, Scottish witch Hazel and hayfever prone Nadia Popov (played by Coronation Street’s Sue Nicholls). Oh and a pantomime horse called Dobbin.
In the film version, Stiller would play Fred Mumford, who founds Rentaghost after he dies in a shipping accident. In the original he has to hand the business over to the Meakers when he can’t keep up the rent, but it sounds as if the film might make it a more professional operation, with Mumford in charge of a temp agency that rents out the deceased to the living.
The film will reunite Stiller with Night at the Museum screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, who also just been brought onto the project.
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