Caffeinated Clint
Here’s what’s fit for print on this Tuesday… going into Wednesday.
De Niro. Scorsese. DiCaprio. Sold!
After their exciting reunion on “The Irishman”, Bobby De Niro and Marty Scorsese are already looking to work together again – and soon. “Killers of the Flower Moon”, set up with Imperative Entertainment and Paramount, would star De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in a true crime yarn about multiple murders of members of the Osage Indian tribe in 1920s Oklahoma that occurred after they found oil on their lands. The flick would film in Osage County. If all goes to plan, the camera will be warm for a shoot late next year.
Leo, Iceman’s son among bodies booked for Brokers
John Swab has nabbed Melissa Leo, Michael K. Williams, Frank Grillo, Alice Englert, and Jack Kilmer for his crime thriller “Body Brokers”. Flick “is the true and untold story of the multibillion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires as fly-by-night “body brokers”, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling these patients off to facilities paying the highest price. ” Compelling shit. Seriously.
Hart to Hart
Kevin Hart is headed to TV – hmmm; be keen to know the ins and outs of this decision – for a comedic action thriller (!) over at Quibi. “Acton Scene” is based on the opening scene of his recent comedy film, where he played a fictionalized version of himself on a quest to land the action-movie role of a lifetime. After being rejected for the role, Kevin randomly encounters a leading A-List action movie star. Their meeting inadvertently sets off a chain of events that force Hart to fight his way through a series of over-the-top action sequences with the help of some of Hollywood’s biggest action movie heroes. Sounds like fun.
Plaza helps make up Bear necessities
Child’s Play momma Aubrey Plaza will star in a new meta-drama called “Black Bear” for writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine. Shooting in the Adirondack Mountains in Long Lake, NY, the movie centers on an expecting couple (Sarah Gadon and Christopher Abbott) who are confronted with an out-of-town guest Abigail (Plaza), a filmmaker suffering from writer’s block who seeks solace in the woods but finds herself at the center of a twisted love triangle.
Sue Storm’s not-so fantastic foreplay
FX Networks has cast Kate Mara and Nick Robinson in “A Teacher”, a limited series based on Hannah Fidell’s feature film of the same name which explores the story behind the mugshot of a female high school teacher caught in an affair with her male student, revealing the complexities and consequences of these illegal relationships. Straight from the headlines, folks!
Big Show… apparently.
Wrestler The Big Show has his own series. A half-hour, multi-cam comedy series – titled, rather imaginatively, “The Big Show Show”- it fixes on a retired world-famous WWE Superstar whose teenage daughter comes to live with him. It’s basically a Tim Allen sitcom with deeper voices.
Lee exchanges rapid fire with Tarantino
Shannon Lee is pissed about how her father, the legendary Bruce Lee is portrayed in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Lee tells The Wrap : “I can understand all the reasoning behind what is portrayed in the movie. I understand that the two characters are antiheroes and this is sort of like a rage fantasy of what would happen… and they’re portraying a period of time that clearly had a lot of racism and exclusion. I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character this super bad-ass who could beat up Bruce Lee. But they didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive.”
Mike Moh’s Lee isn’t her pop, Lee said.
“He comes across as an arrogant a–hole who was full of hot air, and not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others. It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theater and listen to people laugh at my father.
Here, he’s the one with all the puffery and he’s the one challenging Brad Pitt. Which is not how he was. What I’m interested in is raising the consciousness of who Bruce Lee was as a human being and how he lived his life. All of that was flushed down the toilet in this portrayal, and made my father into this arrogant punching bag.”
Mindhunter goes Manson
A trailer for the second season of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” has dropped – and it features 90% more of Damon Herriman’s Charles Manson than seen in “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”.
