Clint Eastwood IS Starsky’s Car
Suddenly, Clint Eastwood has another movie scheduled for 2008 besides Changeling (Nov. 7) and he’s not only directing, he’s going to star in it. It’s called Gran Torino and it’s coming in December. People everywhere are scratching their heads wondering what it all means.
Source: Variety
Meanwhile, Paramount wants Sam Raimi to bring back CIA analyst/action hero Jack Ryan, the character from the Tom Clancy novels who was first played by Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October and then by Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger…and… ZzzZZzzzz …sorry, nodding off in the middle of typing this… and Ben Affleck in The Sum of all Fears.
Further proof that Hollywood has finished scraping the bottom of the barrel and has actually climbed inside and is now licking it.
Coming soon to a multiplex near you: Mr. Moto Begins!
Source: Variety
I know, I’ve now completely blown the doors off my claim to ignore movie production rumors. I can’t help it.
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It would be so wonderful if CHANGELING is just a thriller and not an under-paced grasp for profundity.
It’s Haggis-free so one has cause to hope.
Haggis will never, ever get a break. :-)
The thought of haggis turns me green ->
1 cleaned sheep or lamb’s stomach bag
2 lb. dry oatmeal
1 lb chopped mutton suet
1 lb lamb’s or deer’s liver, boiled and minced
1 pint (2 cups) stock
the heart and lights of the sheep, boiled and minced
1 large chopped onion
1/2 tsp.. each: cayenne pepper, Jamaica pepper, salt and pepper
Le’ts be fair, Mystic River has many of the same problems and its 100 percent Haggis free.
Thanks for that recipe, sartre. I won’t try it at home. ;-)
Starsky’s car was cool in a cheesy 70’s way. But maybe Gran Torino has nothing at all to do with cars. Or maybe it does. We’ll see.
Odd that I keep thinking Mystic River was Haggis and even odder that every time I’m remind he had nothing to do with it, I’m surprised all over again. Poor bastard.
My first thought Alison was that it was going to be a gritty 70s car chase movie…which I’d pay cash money for. Somehow, I doubt it however.
I would only consider seeing Raimi’s Tom Clancy movie if he brought back Liev Schreiber, playing the same character he did in The Sum of All Fears. Especially if he was opposite Bruce Campbell as Jack Ryan.
Bruce Campbell: Groovy
Obviously Eastwood needs more Oscahs!
From the Variety article:
“The intention is to generate several films Raimi would develop and direct, featuring Ryan at a younger, more formative point in his career than previously depicted.”
Er, so Ben Affleck wasn’t young enough? Is this going to be the NEW Adventures of Young Jack Ryan, back when he was competing with Nancy Drew to be the Encyclopedia Brown of his debate team in middle school? Does he foil a plot by a Russian exchange student to blow up the local video arcade?
Cheese and rice, Hollywood is truly bankrupt of ideas.
Ahahaha, joel…
Jack Ryan will be so young that his “old black mentor” will be played by Kel Mitchell.
Thank you Joel, that was the amusing outrage and disgust I was looking for.
See, I can’t be outraged or disgusted at Hollywood anymore. I just calmly and resignedly accept the fact that most of what they spew out is going to be utter commercial, uncreative and non-thought-provoking crap; and I rejoice when they unexpectedly give us quality gifts like No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, The Assassination of Jesse James and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.
You’re so Zen, Alison.
The Tao of Alison.
I’m not going to let it ruin my day, but I’ll rage against the machine every chance I get.
Despite all your rage you’re still just a rat in a cage :-)
Oh, by all means, Craig, everyone should rage against the machine. Hollywood needs to be destroyed. :-)
Zac over at Awards Daily provides a good guess as to what Clint’s movie might be about. I quote him directly.
“I wonder if it’s about the following:
The Superga air disaster took place on Wednesday, May 4, 1949, when a plane carrying almost the entire Torino A.C. football squad, popularly known as Il Grande Torino, crashed into the hill of Superga near Turin killing all 31 aboard including 18 players, club officials, journalists accompanying the team, and the plane’s crew. The team was returning from a farewell match for José Ferreira against Benfica in Lisbon.
The Italian Airlines Fiat G212CP carrying the team flew into a thunderstorm on the approach to Turin and encountered conditions of low cloud and poor visibility. After descending to be able to fly visually the plane clipped a wall close to the Basilica of Superga and crashed. Italian authorities cited low cloud, poor radio aids and an error in navigation as factors contributing to the accident.[1][2]
The emotional impact the crash made on Italian sports fans was profound, as it claimed the lives of the players of a legendary team which had won the last Serie A title before the league play was interrupted in 1944 by World War II and had then returned after the conflict to win four consecutive titles (1946–1949).
At the time of the crash Torino A.C. was leading Serie A with four games left to play in the season. The club carried on by fielding its youth team (Primavera) and in a sign of respect their opponents in each of these matches (Genoa, Palermo, Sampdoria, and Fiorentina) also fielded their youth sides. Primavera won each of their matches. The disaster seriously weakened the country’s national side which had included up to 10 Torino players. Torino itself would not claim another title until 1976.
Of the entire squad only one player remained: Sauro Tomà missed the trip to Portugal due to injury. The Hungarian star Ladislao Kubala, who was to give a guest performance in Lisbon, had just been re-united with his wife and son. The boy was ill and Kubala stayed back to help care for him, missing the fatal trip.
The son of captain Valentino Mazzola, Sandro, became a player of international fame in his own right in the 1960s playing with Inter Milan. Both father and son wore the number 10.”
Sounds like a really good guess, no?
Hmmm…it would make a good movie, but I don’t know.
If the squad was known as “Il Grande Torino”, why name the movie Gran Torino?
It could be a working title until they come up with the real one
He may not be right. But I thought it was a great guess.
It’s better than what I came up with!