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Les Grossman gets 'untitled' movie project
Hope you enjoyed Les Grossman’s production work on Sunday for the MTV Movie Awards - the foul-mouthed "producer" with a Ludacris soundtrack isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Paramount and MTV Films announced Wednesday that they’re ready to give Grossman his very own untitled movie project to star in.
As the statement notes, this "announcement comes hot on the heels of Grossman's groundbreaking and visionary production of the soon-to-be-Emmy award-winning 2010 MTV Movie Awards." (We didn't know the Emmy's had an "outstanding use of excessive swearing" category.)
And those MTV promos with Grossman - played by Tom Cruise, of course - and Robert Pattinson? That was evidence that this Hollywood player is still in the game. According to the statement, "Tom Cruise, along with Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld of Red Hour Films will produce and have secured the life rights to Grossman."
Stiller, who introduced Grossman to moviegoers in 2008's “Tropic Thunder,” said Grossman’s life story “is an inspiring tale of the classic human struggle to achieve greatness against all odds.” He added, "[Grossman] has assured me he plans to quote, ‘[Expletive] kill the [expletive] out of this movie and make Citizen [expletive] Kane look like a piece of crap home movie by the time we are done.’ I am honored to be working with him.”
“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” screenwriter Michael Bacall will pen the script, although Grossman didn't clarify what exactly it will be about. "To quote my great friend Kirk Lazarus, ‘I don’t read the script, the script reads me,' " Grossman said.
Tom Cruise is in talks to once again don Grossman’s paunch and bald spot.
Post subject: Re: Les Grossman movie in development
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:59 am
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Talk about a glaring example of "hey, isn't this so funny and ironic! ya know, because it's ME, Tom Cruise doing this, and it's such a larger than life, foul mouth character, but I'm actually this beloved American treasure! IRONY!!!!!"
That said, I actually have been looking forward to Stiller & Cruise's HARDY BOYS movie, but for all the talk about it the last couple years, I'm still not sure they've ever actually shot the thing.
Post subject: Re: Les Grossman movie in development
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:26 pm
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The one running joke in this is going to be just how fucked up his insults and swearing get, but in terms of plot and story, its bound to be a bad idea.
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Post subject: Re: Les Grossman movie in development
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:28 pm
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Riot Actor 25 wrote:
The one running joke in this is going to be just how fucked up his insults and swearing get, but in terms of plot and story, its bound to be a bad idea.
well, if they pitted him against jerry stiller's character from Zoolander it could be interesting.
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it wasn't even that good of a character in tropic thunder
