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Bruce Willis Goes Ballistic in 'What Just Happened?'

The new Barry Levinson film What Just Happened? sports an interesting cast and a workable premise, but festival audiences haven't exactly warmed to it.

Robert De Niro plays a film producer whose career is on the ropes, with John Turturro, Stanley Tucci, and Kristen Stewart filling out the cast. The movie covers two weeks in the producer's life as he tries to get a new film off the ground.

Bruce Willis shows up as himself in the film, and this clip shows just how much fun Willis can have at his own expense. The setup is that De Niro wants Bruce to shave his beard for the role. If you're at work, it's probably not a good idea to have the speakers up very loud.

Though it's be-boppin' around the world at various festivals, What Just Happened? will happen in the U.S. on October 3rd.

Posted on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 01:59PM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , | Comments1 Comment | References1 Reference

Bruce Willis To Star in 'Kane & Lynch' Video Game Adaptation?

Remember when they'd wait, like three or four years before turning a video game into a movie? Or in the case of Pac-Man, almost three decades?

Variety reports this afternoon that Bruce Willis may star in Kane & Lynch, the Lionsgate big screen adaptation of the Eidos game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, which was released in November.

Whatever your thoughts about that news, I'm happy for Simon Crane, who will direct his first feature, moving up from second unit director and stunt coordinator for a bunch of big flicks - Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the third X-Men, Troy, and Will Smith's Hancock.

Willis would portray Adam "Kane" Marcus, a mercenary who has to band together with James Lynch, a schizophrenic killer, in order to find a stolen microchip. Variety says that Kyle Ward wrote the script and that Lionsgate would like to start filming by the end of the year.

What can we say about Bruce Willis with a gun that hasn't previously been said? He's one of the best armed actors in the world, so it makes sense that he'd gravitate towards this project. How about this: Game Guru suggested way back in November that Willis could play the role and that Lynch might be embodied by Billy Bob Thornton. Damn.

If that doesn't work out, though, I'd like to make a suggestion based solely on the picture: Uh...is The Undertaker free?

Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 03:34PM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

A-Plus Casting Rumors for 'The A-Team'

I took a day or so to process this casting because I had a strong opinion that the movie wasn't a great idea. The latest casting news, however, might have changed my tune. The upcoming A-Team movie may have just landed Tyrese Gibson in the role of B.A. Baracus, the character made famous by Mr. T. And if the other rumors have legs, you might see Woody Harrelson as Murdock and Bruce Willis as Col. Hannibal Smith.

John Singleton will direct The A-Team, which is beginning to sound less and less like an inauthentic 80s cover and more and more like a complete reinvention. That's the only way to go to make this movie legitimate, and you could argue now that you have a better A-Team than the one NBC launched 25 years ago.

Granted, those three names sound almost like a casting wish list, but bear in mind that even wish lists usually go way overboard and are almost never executable. The A-Team, though, has believability and merit; CHUD recently chatted with Gibson, who says he's excited by the opportunity, although the project would have to fit into his increasingly busy schedule.

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Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 09:25AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment