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Post by canadia on Mar 11, 2010 15:54:56 GMT -5
Thought it time to give this a home thread 17 Directors Walk Into A Bar... By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday March 11, 2010 @ 2:46pm EST Comments (5) Email This | Print This | EXCLUSIVE: How many directors does it take to make a comedy? Try 17. Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media has signed on to co-finance an untitled comedy. Each of those directors are shooting segments for a film styled in the vein of `70s sketch comedies Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube. Like those predecessors, this will wear its R-rating like a badge. Relativity confirmed it's making the picture, but wouldn’t specify the number of directors, because many of them are still falling into place. Shooting will wrap in May. So far, Pete Farrelly, Brett Ratner, Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk and Griffin Dunne have directed segments, with Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Banks, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Matt Walsh, Tony Shalhoub, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kieran Culkin, Chloe Moretz, and Patrick Warburton. The segments are shot on the fly, the actors getting paid scale. Farrelly, for instance, got lucky on his segment, called The Catch. He caught Jackman with a day off from his Broadway play A Steady Rain. Farrelly shot in one day with Winslet, who lives in New York. Kavanaugh got involved when the project shook loose recently from Overture. Farrelly, his frequent comedy collaborator Charles Wessler, and GreeneStreet Films’ John Penotti are the producers.Tim Williams and Tucker Tooley are exec producers. Wessler has been hustling the concept so long that it once got killed at Paramount, after the production head was visited by Tipper Gore and decided this didn’t fit the family-film mode. Kavanaugh will set up distribution through one of his output deals. Using multiple directors to film segments of thematically-connected subject matter isn’t unique. It was done with Amazon Women on the Moon, and again on Paris, je t’aime. www.deadline.com/2010/03/17-directors-walk-into-a-bar/
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Post by jeaniebirdie78 on Mar 16, 2010 20:50:57 GMT -5
A short clip from You Tube with Gerry talking about his role as a foul mouthed leprechaun. WARNING!!! The language is kinda rough, but beeped. To those of you who loves it when Gerry curses, this should be a treat for you.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=D24kK9je-rs&feature=sub
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Post by ♥gerryspearl♥ on Mar 16, 2010 21:50:44 GMT -5
Hahahahahaha this is soo cool...i"d love to see the interview,wanna see his face by saying these bad words and the way he said he whants an irish girlfriend...haha This could get funny...i hope to see something of it!!Thank you so much for sharing!!
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Post by canadia on Mar 17, 2010 1:30:33 GMT -5
I believe Gerry is referring to his role in the Unnamed Peter Farrelly movie which is to be a series of comedy sketches
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Post by ♥gerryspearl♥ on Mar 17, 2010 11:00:28 GMT -5
Good to know canadia....i was looking for that project yesterday but couldnt find anything...only that radio thing.Thanks
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Post by canadia on Mar 17, 2010 15:19:48 GMT -5
www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1634138/20100317/story.jhtml?rsspartner=rssMozillaGerard Butler To Play 'Perverse Leprechaun' In Peter Farrelly Sketch Comedy 'It's very funny. It's insane,' actor says at premiere of 'Bounty Hunter.' by Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Lindsay Soll Last week, word dropped that "There's Something About Mary" co-director Peter Farrelly and a crew of other filmmakers had assembled an insane cast of A-listers for a sketch-comedy film whose inspiration is the wacky 1977 classic "The Kentucky Fried Movie." Stars include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber and Gerard Butler. The names were tantalizing, but next to nothing was revealed about the content of the untitled comedy. But on Tuesday night on the red carpet for the premiere of "The Bounty Hunter," Butler kicked MTV News an amazing description of his role in the film. "I play the most perverse, disturbing, disgusting, foul-mouthed leprechaun you could ever imagine," he said. "I've been kidnapped by Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott so they can get their pot of gold. They don't really quite realize what they've bargained for. They land themselves in a bit of trouble." It gets better still. To fit into the shoes of a wee leprechaun, the famously buff star of "300" and "Gamer" will be swapping out his body for that of another actor for some CGI-assisted comedy. "It's funny because we're using that technology from 'Benjamin Button' — what's the politically correct term? A little person? — and they're going to put my head onto the little person," Butler said. "It's very funny. It's insane." Wait, are you messing with us? Is this a St. Patrick's Day prank or something? "It's for real," the Scottish-born actor assured us. "You have to see it to believe it."
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Post by dawne27 on Mar 17, 2010 15:42:02 GMT -5
oh, LOL...thank you canadia for this find! have you ever heard the term....'rub the head of a red-headed leperchaun for good luck 1st of the month' oh goody, more perverse leperchauns...
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Post by Dianne on Mar 17, 2010 18:10:02 GMT -5
oh, LOL...thank you canadia for this find! have you ever heard the term....'rub the head of a red-headed leperchaun for good luck 1st of the month' oh goody, more perverse leperchauns... If the leprechaun was Gerry the top of his head would not be what I wanted to rub... Or should I say that particular head, that is...
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Post by jeaniebirdie78 on Mar 17, 2010 22:26:07 GMT -5
I believe Gerry is referring to his role in the Unnamed Peter Farrelly movie which is to be a series of comedy sketches Yeah, it sounds like it might be a fun movie, even though the language seems a little rough. I wonder where it might be available. I love it when Gerry curses, and have this fantasy that involves me and Gerry and him whispering the work "F..k" in my ear. Now, the language in this little clip is a little different than that fantasy, I might add...
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Post by Leppardlady on Mar 18, 2010 10:09:01 GMT -5
You and me both. My fantasy involves him whispering a bunch of naughty things in my ear while he's me. It's interesting how he's said he's had two Irish girlfriends and then in other interviews, he's said that while the press has him linked to all these actresses, he managed to have two relationships without anyone knowing.... mayhap, these two relationships just happened to be with Irish girls?
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Post by Leppardlady on Mar 18, 2010 10:12:55 GMT -5
Ah, but Dawne didn't specify which head.
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Post by canadia on Mar 18, 2010 14:33:38 GMT -5
I beleive one of the articles said they are happy to have a Restricted rating - they want this to be adult comedy apparently.
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Post by jeaniebirdie78 on Mar 18, 2010 22:39:22 GMT -5
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Post by Dianne on Mar 19, 2010 4:08:29 GMT -5
www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/perverse-leprechaun-gerard-butler_1136038 * PERVERSE LEPRECHAUN GERARD BUTLER Gerard Butler is to play a foul-mouthed and perverse leprechaun in an upcoming comedy film. Gerard Butler is to play a "perverse leprechaun" in an upcoming movie. The 'Bounty Hunter' star, who is currently working on Shakespeare adaptation 'Coriolanus' admits an upcoming - but as yet untitled - movie with Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Seann William Scott and Elizabeth Banks will feature a lot of swearing. He said: "I play the most perverse, disturbing, disgusting, foul-mouthed leprechaun you could ever imagine. "I've been kidnapped by Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott so they can get their pot of gold. "They don't quite realise what they've bargained for. They land themselves in a bit of trouble." The problem of the 6ft 1in actor playing a leprechaun has also been negated, as special technology is being used to superimpose his face onto another person's body. He told MTV News: "It's funny because we're using that technology from 'Benjamin Button' - what's the politically correct term? A little person? - and they're going to put my head onto a little person. It's very funny. It's insane." The project is being led by 'Shallow Hal' director Peter Farrelly and is expected to be released this year.
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Post by torisweettooth on Mar 19, 2010 12:41:13 GMT -5
LMAO...this is awesome. Just what I need after BH.
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