Big News This Week and Snarky Comments to Go With It

I slacked off on the big Hollywood news this week. While everyone has writing about the Oscars since Tuesday I got my two cents in quick and spent the remainder of my time posting pictures of Tom Cruise. To each their own I guess. I'm going to take it easy for the rest of the weekend, but I was reading some of the big news stories over at Rotten Tomatoes and felt that some of them required some comment. So, in typical You Talking to Me? fashion:

• How's this for irony? After quitting as director of Spider-Man 4, leaving the studio with no other choice than the scrap the entire project and reboot the series, Sam Raimi is considering a reboot of his own for his next project. He's considering directing a reboot of The Shadow, which was made into a film in 1994 with Alec Baldwin that was basically a huge flop. Some will find this news disappointing because it interferes with the Warcraft movie (an adaptation of a popular video game series) that some hoped would be Raimi's next project. Personally, having never played the game I don't much care who directs Warcraft or if it ever gets made. This guy, on the other hand, might be a tad disappointed.
  
  
• Fast Five is apparently the title to the never ending Fast and Furious series. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker will be back once again. Okay, let me admit it: I loved the first two films (yes, you read correctly, the first TWO films), found the third forgettable and hated the fourth. The only way to possibly save this series would be to scrap Justin Lin as the director (who made the last two films and clearly isn't comfortable with story, character, logic, plausibility or great action sequences) and bring back Rob Cohen to the director's chair. Cohen is the one true director who understood that Fast and Furious is basically just a slick b-movie and had a lot of fun with the material while also delivering great car chases. All i can say for Justin Lin, who will be returning for the fifth film: Better Luck Tomorrow man. (Look it up).


• There's going to be an Enchanted sequel. No word yet on casting for the project. This is the kind of news that makes you want to phone up someone important at Disney and remind them of their direct-to-video sequel policy.


• Finally, Lee Ziotoff, the creator of MacGyver is planning a lawsuit against MacGruber, a feature length interpretation of the Saturday Night Live MacGyver parody sketch starring Will Forte. Reports are that Ziotoff is planning his own MacGyver movie and doesn't want the parody to interfere with his business. I'm not sure I buy that reasoning but regardless this is good news because, if the lawsuit goes through and MacGruber is shelved, we might owe Ziotoff a debt of gratitude considering there is about as many laughs in the trailer as there have been over the past few years of Saturday Night Live. See for yourself