The first Absolutely Anything images have gone online, and while they don’t tell us too much about the movie, it’s still nice to get a first look at Terry Jones‘ upcoming sci-fi film. Simon Pegg stars as Neil Clarke, a secondary school teacher who is given magical powers by aliens. While that may seem fanciful, there seems to be a delightfully twisted edge to it. “He can make anything happen”, says Jones, “[but] he doesn’t realize it until his colleague says, ‘What would you do if you could do anything?’ and Neil responds with, ‘I’d make an alien spaceship hit class 4C and vaporize them.’ Then there’s an explosion in the school, and they run to 4C’s classroom, open the door and there’s a vast hole in the ground.”
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In a competitive situation, ABC has bought The Finger, a single-camera comedy written by Ben benkarlinKarlin (Modern Family) and starring British writer-actor Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun Of The Dead). The project, from ABC Studios and 3 Arts, will have Frost star as Nick Ferguson aka The Finger, the world’s most famous jewel thief who wants to quit his life of crime, open up a humble sandwich shop and do right by his 9-year-old son — and all of that is really hard to do. Karlin will co-write the story with Frost and will executive produce with 3 Arts’ David Miner.
The movie actually looks really funny, which is a tad ironic considering Scott most recently directed Vaughn in the very unfunny Delivery Man. There look to be some fantastic supporting turns from Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson as Vaughn’s new partners, and Nick Frost is a very welcome face amongst the cast as well. Additionally, this is certainly one of the most NSFW red-band trailers I’ve seen in a while.
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Starring Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Bryan Brown, Callan Mulvey, and Luke Hemsworth, the story centers on a young singer (Braga) in a multi-threaded tale of blackmail and revenge that includes a mercurial assassin (Pegg), a gambling addict (Stapleton), and a small town Lady Macbeth (Palmer) among others.
A few days this week I've listened to KROQ in the morning (sigh), and I swear it's like Ralph's showbiz beat reports come directly from these threads.Simon Pegg is co-writing 'Star Trek 3': Report
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2015/01/21/star-trek-3-simon-pegg/
A few days this week I've listened to KROQ in the morning (sigh), and I swear it's like Ralph's showbiz beat reports come directly from these threads.