"I'm F***ing Matt Damon" Director Now Driving 'Le Car'

Remember how sick we got of "I'm F***ing Matt Damon" after the third day? And remember how after one viewing we were over "I'm F***ing Ben Affleck? Well now, Wayne McClammy, the guy who co-created the videos for Jimmy Kimmel Live will get his very own movie. To his credit, it was the abuse of the videos and not their creativity that made them burn out so fast, so here's hoping McClammy's next inventive idea has a little more time to flourish. He has sold his spec for and will direct the comedy Le Car, which The Hollywood Reporter says, "is designed to unspool as a 'found film' made in the 1980s about a group of CIA agents who try to foil a plot by an evil car aiming to detonate an H-bomb at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y." I like that very much. The Reporter points out that Le Car is the fourth comedy MGM has acquired since April, joining Bobism, The Zookeeper, and  Executive VP David M. Murch's Adventures in the Land of Zametherea. The reason, in my mind, is two-fold: 1) MGM is developing new talent and ideas rather than regurgitating tired old ideas through remakes and sequels, and 2) Let's face it, MGM isn't exactly in their golden age, and a good way to make money is to make and promote cheap movies. Comedies are almost always cheaper than dramas. As for McClammy, he has directed an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program and is on board to direct Cool School, a comedy being prepped at Fox, so even if Le Car won't start, he should be fine.

Comments

[Feeney]

TERRRRRIBLE REPORTING@!

Nice job mentioning the co-writer of the script - Will Burke, who's a WRITER at the Kimmel Show. I knew that guy, and he should be getting his due in all this press. There's been a ton of aritcles about Le Car which sounds goddamned hilarious by the way, and none of them are giving my boy Will Burke his props. Hooray for this McClammy character and all for being able to direct this thing, but I'll bet you Paul Pierce's championship ring he didn't write a whole movie script alone. A writer did. Try doing some research, knobs.

Eff, em, Burkey! Don't let em get ya down, kid.

PS: Celtics.

[Get The Big Picture]

Well, you got me there. Will Burke, Jimmy Kimmel writer and former Harvard student, co-wrote the script. Do you know if he had something to do with the "Fucking" videos? I am sorry for the omission.

[Feeney]

Not sure. Haven't talked to Burke in a while but I think all the Kimmel writers helped to write those videos, so yeah. I'm sure he proibably had a big hand in the "Fucking" vids.

But he definitely wrote the first short that Matt Damon did with Kimmel. And McClammy directed.

Check the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXr4uOnBrw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA1tM4lIjIU

[Ka veh]

ha, my mom had a LeCar when they were new in the super early 80's.