MTV Making Crap Up About ‘Lebowski 2′
Last week, MTV (AKA The Twilight Channel) reported with a straight face that Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman were really going to be Riddler and Penguin in the next Batman movie. Their source? Michael Caine. Had Alfred been promoted from butler to casting director? Of course not. The rumor was as bogus last week as it was when a British tabloid originally started it.
MTV’s attention grabbing headline this week is talk of a sequel to Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Big Lebowski. This lie actually started over a year ago with John Turturro musing in an interview about the possibility of a sequel. Lately MTV has fanned the flames by sending assorted staff stooges to red carpets to ask celebrities who have absolutely no say in whether there will be a Lebowski 2 what they think of the idea and then reporting their polite non-responses as confirmation that the project is practically underway. Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman and now Julianne Moore are all on record as not saying they wouldn’t be in such a movie if it ever came to be. Theoretically.
It’s bad enough when low-end fanboy sites use this kind of bait to grab Google hits, but MTV? I know these Twilight-shilling whores aren’t exactly the Woodward and Bernstein of investigative journalism, but they are kind of part of the establishment. They do have a huge audience and they’re embarrassing themselves and the Internet.
Filed under: Rumors
Tags: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers
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What fools.
Oh, MTV.
Remember in the 80s when they were kind of awesome?
Nope, but I’ve heard that they were. Apparently, back in those days, they actually… focused on music. I know. Breathtaking.
M-orose
T-wilight
V-ampires
24 hours a day
Funny that they just terminated TRL, thus removing the last remnants of ANYTHING music related from the channel. Actually I haven’t watched it for years, but last I heard it was solely devoted to reality programming.
I think Michael Caine may have been being sarcastic, too. He said he read it in the media. :-)
Or maybe he was serious.
Well, there was some business about him actually having talked to someone at WB, but yeah, he also said “I read it in the paper”. He’s been on enough of these stupid red carpets and answered enough stupid questions to know how it works. I imagine he had a twinkle in his eye.
The thing is, everyone knows it’s BS, but you have to click on the link and read it and that’s what MTV wants….and I’m encouraging them by linking to them myself even if I’m only trying to point out what twats they are.
Don’t worry, I didn’t to click through and reward them for being twats. You covered their twatness just fine.
twat-tacular.
Thanks.
Oh Don Piano……
MTV has been embarrassing themselves for a long time now.
I remember when MTV used to play music videos.
There is a whole generation of people who have grown up not even knowing that that’s all MTV used to be.
I want my Martha Quinn and JJ Jackson!
Ah, Martha Quinn. She was an oasis among veejays in the ’80s. The fact that I’m a male might have something to do with my views.
If you watch the Batman films Christopher Nolan has directed, you realize what a poor fit The Penguin would be into that universe. Someone mentioned The Riddler being reconceptualized as a serial killer a la the Zodiac and I dig that.
Next to Joker, Catwoman is probably the most popular character in the Batman myth and now that Rachel is dead, I think you almost have to figure out a way to bring her into the next film.
Then again, the Nolans are far better writers than me.