Odd Couple: Having kicked ass in the film adaptation Devil Wear's Prada, it's only natural that Meryl Streep take on equally challenging roles in the future. For example, the film Wanted alongside Jennifer Anniston. Plot: "Framed and subsequently imprisoned for drug trafficking, a former cop (Aniston) plots an escape with her cellmate (Streep)." Seems a little farfetched, but after watching her tear Anne Hathaway a new one as Miranda Priestley, anything is possible.
Also on the comeback trail is Demi Moore. Among other films, Moore just finished wrapping up a crime/drama opposite Michael Caine, a la Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery of Entrapment, in Flawless. It's "set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire janitor (Caine) convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive (Moore) to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation." It'll be great to see if the old coot still has it, since her last acting gig on the Charlie's Angels sequel was half-assed and pathetic.
Bob Saget is looking to create a mockumentary of March of the Penguins, called Farce of the Penguins. It's tagline: What Happens In Antarctica... Stays in Antarctica. Saget is writing, directing, and starring in the animated comedy, and by the choice of his cast: Samuel L. Jackson as the narrator, Jason Alexander ("Seinfield"), James Belushi ("According to Jim"), Jason Biggs (American Pie), Lewis Black (comedian), Dane Cook (comedian), Harvey Fierstein (Independence Day), Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act), Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin), Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Jamie Kennedy (Son of the Mask), Jon Lovitz (High School High), Norm MacDonald ("The Norm show), Carlos Mencia ("The Carlos Mencia Show), Mo'Nique ("The Parkers"), Tracy Morgan ("The Tracy Morgan Show"), and John Stamos ("Full House"), I'm assuming it's going to be a ball of laughs.
Looking to diversify her resume before she delves into Sin City 2 and Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer, Jessica Alba will appear in the movie The Ten. Each story is inspired by one of the ten commandments. Who's willing to bet she's in the "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor" scenario? Starring in the flick alongside her are Amanda Peet and Adam Brody.
Speaking of Brody, he isn't taking any chances with "The O.C.", fully aware of its endless possiblities of cancellation due to its overly dramatic plot lines and the unfortunate death of Marissa Cooper (and subsequent departure of Mischa Barton). There are even petitions circling to bring her back and ideas floating about to pretend it was all just a dream. Brody has already completed In the Land of Women, where he's the leading man amongst a sea of women, including Meg Ryan. Brody should be honored; it would be Ryan's first movie in three years. Presently, he's grasping at straws with a bit part in Smiley Face, playing a marihauna dealer. The lead is the zany Anna Faris (Just Friends). But it just wouldn't be a mary jay film without Hollywood's resident pothead John Cho (Harold and Kumar go to White Castle).
Cho just rapped up The Air I breathe, a crime/drama/romance "based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love." Also in the cast are Kevin Bacon (Footloose), Brendan Fraser (The Mummy), Andy Garcia (Ocean's Twelve), Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), Emile Hirsch (Girl Next Door), Kelly Hu (Scorpion King), and Chris Klein (Just Friends). He's about to start shooting another movie alongside Hu called Expats. It's an Action/Adventure/Crime/Thriller. "Jeremy Keller a wayward college graduate goes to Korea to teach English to 10 year-olds. Immediately he falls in with a group of eccletic expatriates...When they discover Korean gangsters never carry guns, they hatch an outrageous plan - to rob them." And of course he'll soon begin production on Harold and Kumar go to Amsterdam as the first movie said they would.
After a stint with Lex Luthor in the horrible Superman Returns, Kal Penn, Cho's best partner in crime, will do another sequel, Van Wilder 2: Rise of the Taj. "Taj (Kal Penn) from the first film, heads to England's prestigious Oxford University to further his studies while in the process, showing the uptight student body how to party." This Wilder will be minus the Van.
Speaking of the great one, Ryan Reynolds is presently filming Chaos Theory: "A story within a story about an obsessively organized man (Reynolds) who finds out he is sterile -- and that his daughter was fathered by his best friend." Stuart Townsend (Aeon Flux) and Sarah Chalke ("The Scrubs") are costarring. And he's about to start filming Horrible Bosses where he and two of his best friends decide to kill their bosses. Sounds like an Oscar winner.
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