Hollywood Hotline - Week of December 12, 2024
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Howdy Hotliners,
Welp, LG is discontinuing manufacturing Blu-ray players, which just feels ominous, ya know? Like in the not-too-distant-future, instead of putting a Blu-ray disc into a Blu-ray player from our home Blu-ray library, we’ll have to personally kiss WBD CEO, David Zaslav’s ass via reverse video Cameo (Cnsmer?) message asking him if we can pretty please with sugar on top, stream Harry Potter vs. Batman tonight?
TOP STORY:
Jabba The Hutt’s Son is a Hot Bear
Hot ratboi Jeremy Allen White is gonna play “Rotta the Hutt” in some STAR WARS shizzz.
This is where we’re at.
Without further ado, let’s check the Hotline:
FUTURE FILMS:
Steven Soderbergh Locks CHRISTOPHERS Cast
Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, and James Corden. One of these things is not like the other.
“THE CHRISTOPHERS is a dark comedy about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death. Script is by Ed Solomon (BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE 1989).”
No mention of distributor but I’m guessing MAX? Director Soderbergh’s recent films have not hit for me. Not curious about this.
Michael Mann Making HEAT 2: NEIL McCAULEY’S REVENGE
I bet you’re thinking, “But didn’t Robert De Niro’s character die at the end of HEAT?” Nope! He survived! That’s why Al Pacino was holding his hand at the end! “Hang on! Hold on to me Neil! I called it in! We’ll live to fight cat-and-mouse-cops-and-robbers another day! Hoo-ha! CUZ SHE GOT A GREAT ASS! And you got your head all the way up it!”
This is where we’re at.
Meet The Cockfocking Fockering Fockers Again Motherfockers!
AKA MEET THE PARTS 4.
This is where we’re at.
Snoop Dog in Luc Besson’s THE LAST MAN
“Although the post-apocalyptic plot is under wraps, it’s believed to be a “Planet of the Apes”-inspired movie and may be connected in some ways to Dogg’s 2009 song “Last Man Standing.”
Not to be confused with Y: THE LAST MAN. This sounds Plusy to me. Or Tubi Original. Maybe if I was bored on a Sunday?
This is where we’re at.
Live Action TANGLED Coming Your Kids Way
Never saw the original 2010 animated film. I’m sure it’s great. I’m sure this live action version will be great.
This is where we’re at.
Jared Leto (MORBIUS 2022) is set to play 1963 John F. Kennedy assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in Barry Levinson’s (TOYS 1992) independent feature, ASSASSINATION, originally written by David Mamet (HOMICIDE 1991).
“The murder mystery noir pic centers around ground-breaking female crime reporter Dorothy Kilgallen played by [Jessica] Chastain. When she suspects that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, she uses her fame and influence to find President John F. Kennedy’s real killer. Kilgallen’s journey will put her up against the CIA, mafia bosses and the FBI, all who would love nothing more than to make her and this story disappear.”
Call me a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist but it is my own personal belief that CIA Director Allen Dulles, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson are the two individuals who conspired, plotted, and executed their own Commander-In-Chief.
JFK was a man of peace. He wanted peace with Khrushchev, Castro, and Ho Chi Minh. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in '61, JFK fired Dulles, and was stripping power from the Agency, and even said: "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds!”
JFK was also dropping LBJ from the ticket in the ‘64 election. Johnson had backdoor scandals in Texas that were coming to a head, his career soon to be over. Dulles had pulled off Coup d'états all over the globe (Africa, Chile, the Dominican Republic,) so a domestic one was no problem.
Dulles and Johnson were extremely powerful and ruthless men, with key relationships throughout the establishment and state of Dallas where the murder took place. Even though Dulles was fired as Director, he was still running the CIA.
They executed JFK and took control of the government.
Newly sworn in President Johnson kept the murder investigation out of Congress, and formed the Warren Commission, appointing Allen Dulles to be its key member. Dulles was like, "Yes. A lone gunman did it. No one else. No conspiracy and no we never heard of no Oswald before!" Dulles had to oversee and hide the U.S. governments relationship with their loyal, and former employee, 24 year-old Lee Oswald, who was a bonafide Marine who spied for the U.S. by going to Russia and returning to America with the CIA's full support.
The reality is: Oswald was a patriot. He loved President Kennedy. He was in Dallas that day trying to stop the assassination. He was set up. Discovering who Lee Oswald really is, is the key that opens the door to the assassination. That’s why a trove of assassination documents are still locked away to this day; they reveal Oswald’s true identity, he was a U.S. spy who was sacrificed like a pawn, played by his own government. As he said himself: “I'm just a patsy!”
TRENDY TV:
Steve Carell in New Funny Comedy Series Ha ha ha!
“The single-camera comedy is set on a college campus, centering on an author’s (Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter.”
So Rodney Dangerfield’s BACK TO SCHOOL (1986) but with daughter instead of son, got it.
Superman Going To Poundtown in WARHAMMER 40,000
“Set in the far future, where humanity stands at the edge of what might be its brightest future, or its darkest age. The threats to humankind’s empire are many: traitors driven by the fires of ambition, alien empires sworn to reclaim the stars and the corruption of reality by malevolent gods.” Henry Cavill (MAN OF STEEL 2013) stars for Amazon Prime.
This is where we’re at.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Getting Reboot, Brother
“The new series, which is now in development at Peacock, will be set following a devastating hurricane, when a rag tag high school football team and their damaged, interim coach make an unlikely bid for a Texas High School State Championship and become a beacon of light for their town.”
This is where we’re at.
PRISON BREAK Getting Remade, Bra!
“The 20th Century Fox show PRISON BREAK (2005-2017) is getting remade in “A new chapter of Prison Break has taken a major step towards becoming a reality at Hulu with a pilot pickup for the project from Mayans M.C. and The Outlaws co-creator Elgin James (LITTLE BIRDS 2011) and 20th Television.”
Never saw the original but vaguely recall one of the original actors buying booze for underage kids in Brentwood then crashing his car with them in it, killing one of the passengers and going to jail/ruining his career?
This is where we’re at.
Attach Your Creative Dongle To Capitalist Tongal
“Tongal, which connected animators with Pharrell Williams for his biopic film PIECE BY PIECE, says creators on its platform have surpassed $100M in earnings.
The business bills itself as a “studio on demand” that democratizes production by putting emerging creatives with no direct industry connections in touch with those leading professional projects. It claims to have a network of more than 160,000 creators in 175 countries and has worked with the likes of Disney, Sony and Paramount.”
Sounds like a scam. Way to cheat the workers. CHANGE MY MIND
COMING SOON:
28 YEARS LATER - 28 DAYS LATER (2002), 28 WEEKS LATER (2007) now a complete trilogy. Confirmed Cillian Murphy is NOT the skeleton zombie that rises up!
THE GORGE - Two spotters for the Gate of Hell fall in love from afar. Aww, how cute!
SUGARCANE - Devastating documentary on what the Catholic church did to Canada’s indigenous peoples (not happy good things)
It’s the Most Wonderful Eyes Wide Shut Time of the Year!
Until next week, Hotliners! Thanks for calling in.
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