Things that Make You Go, “What the #*#&$ing #*&$ing $*#*?”
Hollywood seems to have a skewed view of how to make a successful action remake. The trend used to be that the producers would put together a lot of accomplished action writers and actors in the hopes of making a good action movie. These days, the trend seems to be that the producers do a whole lot of acid, whack each other across the head with wooden boards and then cast writers and actors in the hopes of making a good action movie before the hallucinations wear off.
Here are three of the strangest casting choices we’ve heard so far for future some “Sure to Suck” movie releases.
First up, there’s Jack Black, the loud, raucous, big bellied ballad meister who’s taken on Tinseltown the way a fat trucker takes on a foot long roast beef hoagie. According to Ain’t It Cool News, he’s been cast to play “The Green Lantern,” which is doubly weird because the real “Green Lantern” is muscular and white. Maybe the producers think that the Green Lantern’s superpower is his ability to stop bad guys in their tracks by making them so confused about his casting choice that their heads explode.
IMDB also reported that a green light has also been given to a “21 Jumpstreet” remake, which is being written by Jonah Hill, better known as the chubby kid from “Superbad.” We’re not saying he can’t do a good job on the script, but does anyone even remember “21 Jumpstreet”? It’s some kind of Disney Channel show about two kids who dance a lot, right?
But by the far the weirdest pick of them all is a “Green Hornet” remake starring…Seth Rogen? According to Entertainment Weekly, it’s going to happen and will hit theaters in 2010. That choice would make more sense if the Green Hornet looked like a fat stoner who listened to way too much Twisted Sister in the early 80’s.
