Lohan to probably wear Cleopatra headdress at some point; Sean Penn steps further away from Jeff Spicoli; Will Ferrell will fight your news team with one hand tied behind his back; Should The Office offer NBC a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate); Jennifer Lawrence will remain your “It” girl as long as she can; Franco has deep thoughts.
Remember when we said there was a big rumor that large, undulating nostril Lindsay Lohan could, perhaps be playing Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime for lady’s lady-parts television movie? Well, apparently Lifetime has made it official. Lindsay Lohan will take on the Oscar-award winning actress in a biopic called Liz & Dick, about the actress’ longtime relationship with actor Richard Burton. So is this Lohan’s Amy Fisher moment? Heh. Remember when Drew Barrymore found herself unable to get a working job in Hollywood due to drug use and some wacky antics post rehab? Yeah, well, she went on to play Amy Fisher in a television biopic about the lover to infamous Joey Buttafuoco. Did it help her career? Well, it certainly didn’t hurt it. It did what it was supposed to do, got her back on the national radar. Could the same be done for Lohan? Well, if her recent SNL performance is any indication let’s just hope for an acting coach, and a lot of takes, or you know the casting of some other better actress who’s not a confirmed mess, and you know wouldn’t make Elizabeth Taylor turn in her grave and throw a ninety pound diamond at the head of Lifetime’s casting. What the hell is Rachel McAdams doing right now? Ooops, sorry. Good luck, Lindsay! [THR]
Single-handed savior to Haiti and ex-husband to Madonna, because those aren’t two odd paths in one’s life, Sean Penn is in talks to play a pivotal part in a remake of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, to be directed by the star of Reality Bites, Ben Stiller. The comedy will star Stiller in the title role, because we’ve so been missing that jumpy, neurotic, screaming at Mariachis thing he does in all his comedies. He’ll play a timid magazine photo manager who goes off on an escapade to find a missing negative. Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine and Patton Oswalt will also be along for the ride to totally overshadow everything Stiller and Penn plan on doing in this film. It should really just be called “Wiig Oswalt” because that’s the only reason most of us will probably see this, yes? Naturally. “Wiig Oswalt” is also an awesome name for a band. Copyrighted. Done. Pay me. [Deadline]
Be prepared to see Will Ferrell’s mustache pick up a meat cleaver, a dueling pistol, and perhaps a battering ram, because the writers are pretty much saying there’ll be another epic melee scene in Anchorman 2. [Vulture]
Should The Office continue? Is there really anything left to say and/or do on The Office? Seriously, let’s think about it for a minute. This whole storyline with finding a replacement for Michael Scott has pretty much ended up sitting on the ring of a toilet bowl, yes? Mindy Kaling and Rainn Wilson have new television pilots, Ed Helms is a newly minted comedy star/schlubby indie man, John Krasinski has perfected his “Jim Face” in movies now and is doing some screenwriting, and we have no idea what James Spader is doing on that show while walking around in Christopher Walken’s shoes, face, and hair. So seriously, is it time to pull the plug on Scranton Paper Company People and Other Random Jokes About Paper, or whatever is still happening on that show? Yes, yes, it is. Okay, sure, Jenna Fischer has told folks over at The Hollywood Reporter that “the actors are all prepared and wanting to come back!” as she promotes her new indie comedy The Giant Mechanical Man — erm, okay. NBC, do the right thing on May 15 and pull the life support from this thing so Spader can find his keys and get off the set. Thanks. [THR]
Jennifer Lawrence has decided that if there’s a movie made in the next 24 months that she’s not starring in, there will be hell to pay. And by hell we mean she’ll get all adorably mad and shoot something with a bow and arrow, or turn into a blue scaly mutant sea monkey, or something like that. She’s in talks to play Jeannette Walls in an adaptation of the writer’s memoir, The Glass Castle. “Take that Jessica Chastain! Tree of Life my ass!” [Vulture]
Today in James Franco Musings: “But then when I do something so stupid and simple as singing, like, one and a half verses of Selena Gomez’s song with cornrows in my hair, it blows up on the blogosphere and we get, like, all these viewers. Part of it is, “Wow, I guess I just tapped into what they want!” Franco, first tackling arm amputations, brownies, sleeping, soap operas, self-involved plays/poetry/tater tots? Now, pop stardom. The future will now be Francoelevised.[Vulture]
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