Hollywood Hotline - Week of January 16, 2025
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Holy Smokeo Hotliners,
What a year so far. Today, we lost a true icon, David Lynch (1946-2025). Last week, we lost the Pacific Palisades and Altadena to apocalyptic fires started by the cursed Santa Ana Winds. The week before that was the dawn of the New Year. Hope everyone had a happy holidays week before that.
TOP STORIES:
Christopher Nolan making The Odyssey by Homer
Sounds great!
IT ENDS WITH US Co-Stars Suing Each Other
Sounds not so great!
Author Neil Gaiman Sexual Predator Exploiting Free Labor
Sounds as bad as it sounds plus worse
President-Elect Announces Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone, & Mel Gibson as His Special Ambassadors/Special Envoys to “a very great but troubled Hollywood.”
Sounds like someone at a Wendy’s yelling at the cashier
Without further ado, let’s check the Hotline:
FUTURE FILMS:
SUCCESSION Creator Making HBO Film on Financial Crisis
Sounds hilarious!
Tom Holland Taking Page Out of Tom Cruise in Doing John Grisham Film Adaptation
Based on 1997 novel, Tom Holland plays, “Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a white shoe Biloxi law firm who fakes his own death in a burning car. He’s left behind a wife, newborn daughter, and a secret. What he’s actually done is fake his death to create a template for a new life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm. He finds happiness and love in South America. When the client who worked so hard to defraud the government finds the money is missing from his offshore accounts, he becomes determined to hunt down the lawyer he doesn’t believe is dead. That leads the attorney to have to turn himself in to the FBI and face up to the wife, child and life he left behind.”
No director attached. But John Lee Hancock (THE FOUNDER 2012) was previously. Sounds like Boomer Dad Movie of the Week. Meh.
TRENDY TV:
HOLES (2003) Movie Getting Turned into Series
Based on the 1998 book. Not a bad idea. It was essentially the OG Orange is the Teenage Black
TANGY THEATER:
Skateboarding Zombie Musical on Broadway, Bra!
“Ollie Mongo was created in 2016 by Klasky and Singer. The digital comic series, set 200 years in the future, follows Ollie, a high school student and skateboarder infected with Guak seeds brought back by astronauts from outer space that transform humans with type O blood into zombies. Almost 40% of humans are now Zombies, so Ollie becomes an undercover Zombie Chaser. Along with his friends Wizard and Yuki, he battles against zombie bullies and the villainous Vinnie Stitch, who seeks to harness zombie power for world domination.”
I recall taking a meeting with a producer a million years ago who had a script called MORT: THE DEAD TEENAGER and I thought it was the dumbest idea I ever heard. Now who’s laughing? Not me.
COMING SOON:
THE MONKEY - Red Band NSFW trailer of a killer toy monkey a la Final Destination
THE WOMAN IN THE YARD - To be followed by THE CREEP IN THE BACKYARD
UNTIL DAWN - GROUNDHOG DAY but everyone gets murdered videogame adaptation
A WORKING MAN - Jason Statham is not John Wick or a Beekeeper. He’s just a working man
THE ALTO KNIGHTS - Robert De Niro and Robert De Niro Star in Sniffing Each Other’s Farts for Four Hours
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 4k - This is a Must See
Let’s all watch as many David Lynch films as we can in the next week or two and pray that the winds die down even more.
Until next week, Hotliners! Thanks for calling in.
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