{"id":1206,"date":"2007-11-27T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/newsbites-bale-disciple-gods-life-mimzy\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T08:27:00","slug":"newsbites-bale-disciple-gods-life-mimzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/11\/newsbites-bale-disciple-gods-life-mimzy.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: Bale! Disciple! Gods! Life! Mimzy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Time for a few more little blurbs.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> FilmStew.com<\/a> has a wonderfully insane idea. If Christian Bale<\/a> \u2014 who is currently one of six actors playing Bob Dylan in I\u2019m Not There<\/a><\/i> \u2014 really does<\/i> play John Connor in the next Terminator<\/i> movie, then perhaps the studio could cast all the other actors who have played John Connor<\/a> and hire I\u2019m Not There<\/i> director Todd Haynes to oversee the whole thing. It\u2019ll never happen, but still.<\/p>\n

2.<\/a> German director Robert Sigl<\/a> is developing The 13th Disciple<\/i>, a \u201cHorror\/Adventure\u201d film about archaeologists in India who discover that Jesus had an \u201cevil twin brother\u201d who is now alive again, reincarnated as the head of a religious sect. Jesus himself will reportedly be \u201conly in the background\u201d of the story, and will not be an active character. Matt Page<\/a> at the Bible Films Blog has rounded up several news sites and official movie sites on the subject.<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says Ben Stiller is developing a TV pilot called Gods Behaving Badly<\/i>, described as:<\/p>\n

. . . a contemporary comedic tale set in London, where the gods of ancient Greece have been living together in a house since the 1660s. They still are running the world, fighting with one another, but they are dangerously bored and living in much reduced circumstances. Apollo has turned a Goldman Sachs market trader into a tree after she refused casual sex with him. Aphrodite runs a telephone sex service.<\/p>\n

\u201d \u2018Gods Behaving Badly\u2019 has a rare comedic collision of the mythic, the mundane and the emotionally real,\u201d Red Hour partner Stuart Cornfeld said. \u201cWe are very excited about moving ahead with this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like the Greco-Roman myths, so this could be kind of fun, but I don\u2019t know that I trust Stiller or his company to milk the best humour out of this concept. For one thing, they\u2019d better not make all<\/i> the jokes about sex. That\u2019s too easy, too obvious. It\u2019s one thing for the characters<\/i> to be bored and uninspired, but the writers<\/i> should be a little more clever than that.<\/p>\n

4.<\/a> I love contrarian readings of popular films \u2014 such as Jonathan V. Last<\/a>\u2018s argument that the Empire, rather than the Rebellion, was ultimately on the side of good in the the Star Wars<\/i> movies \u2014 so I have to link to right-wing New York Post<\/i> columnist Kyle Smith<\/a>\u2018s recent analysis of It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/i> (1946):<\/p>\n

While watching the new colorization of \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u201d on DVD \u2013 this time they got it right; no longer do you get the feeling you\u2019re watching a black-and-white film through stained glass \u2013 I thought: you know who would love this? Why, that visionary American innovator Henry F. Potter.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, Mr. Potter \u2013 the unsung hero of \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life,\u201d the canny businessman who tried (and, alas, failed) to turn boring, repressed Bedford Falls \u2013 a town full of drunks, child beaters, vandals and racial and sexual harassers \u2013 into an exciting new destination nightspot called Pottersville. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5.<\/a> Jeffrey Wells<\/a> at Hollywood Elsewhere notes that New Line Cinema\u2019s \u201cFor Your Consideration<\/a>\u201d site \u2014 the site that invites members of the Academy to consider their films for the Oscars \u2014 is promoting The Golden Compass<\/a><\/i>, Hairspray<\/i> and\u2026 The Last Mimzy<\/a><\/i>? That\u2019s the lame children\u2019s fantasy which happened to be the first film directed by the head of the studio in 17 years. In other words, it\u2019s a true vanity project \u2014 and now, more so than ever.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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