We’ll start you off light today with the thought that director Michael Bay is eying a small, Pulp Fiction-like movie to do between Transformers 2 and 3. This sounds inconceivable, but at one point he thought about directing Phone Booth. I wonder how that would’ve looked. I’m guessing it wouldn’t have been solely relegated to the phone booth itself. [MTV Movies Blog]
One of the resident Pixar geniuses, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) is set to direct a live-action adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel, “Princess of Mars,” as John Carter of Mars. This has been known for some time, but only recently was it announced that writer-extraordinaire, Michael Chabon, will do a rewrite of Stanton’s script. Anything to make it better is a good thing. I have no idea what to expect from Stanton’s foray into live-action, but am intrigued by the talent involved. [Aint It Cool News]
Although no one has been cast yet, we do know that The Green Lantern is slated to shoot in Sydney, Australia, will have a budget of $150 million and will be released in December 2010. Now if they could only find one of those pesky actors. [Latino Review]
A few weeks ago, we found out Bruno had been rated NC-17 by the MPAA. Sacha Baron Cohen and company appealed the decision after making some alterations and it’s now down to R. Oh, well. That’s what DVD’s and Blu-ray’s are for. [Collider]
Many years ago, there was a TV show titled “Father Knows Best.” It’s now being made into a movie. Oh, my. We can only hope it ends up as good as Bewitched or The Honeymooners. [Cinematical]
Sofia Coppola is set to direct her fourth feature film, entitled Somewhere. It’s starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Indy music plays on the soundtrack. [Coming Soon]
Is TV’s “Family Guy” coming to the big screen? God, I hope not. Unfortunately, that’s what creator Seth McFarlane says in an interview. He even hints at some live action stuff. Yeah, it’ll probably be in the form of an insert of a 4-minute rock music video from the 80′s. Hilarium. [JoBlo]
Finally, [MTV Movies Blog] sat down with director Eli Roth (who makes the same sh*tty movies over and over again, according to Uwe Boll) and learned he is about to finish his script for a big budget film. The only thing he reveals about it is that it’ll be $80 million and have a monster. The bigger news, as far as I’m concerned, is he says he’s going to shoot a feature length Thanksgiving, immediately after that. He shot the trailer for Thanksgiving and it was attached to Grindhouse. I have to leave you with it:
