Exclusive : Guttenberg is Cool

Who doesn’t love Steve Guttenberg!?

We all grew up with the guy – “Bad Medicine”, “Police Academy”, “Three Men and a Baby”, “Cocoon”, “Short Circuit”… heck, “The Boys from Brazil” (albeit not a lot of laughs in that one). And he’s great. And if you caught his performance as Mayor ‘Woody’ on “Veronica Mars”, you can back me up when I say the fella’s still got it!

In recent years Guttenberg’s been a bit quiet – opting instead to pursue his interest in directing; I interviewed him a couple of years back for his flick “P.S, Your Cat is Dead”, and he seemed rather enthusiastic about a career behind the camera – but with a guest-stint on the aforementioned “Veronica Mars”, and a showy role in Jessica Simpson vehicle “Private Valentine”, one would probably be safe to assume ‘The Gute’ has ‘the bug’ again.

In addition to the rumoured “Three Men and a Bride”, Guttenberg is in talks to join Mischa Barton for the comedy, “Science of Cool”, one of the film’s producers told Moviehole this morning.

And it’d seem this is quite a snug fit for Lassard’s finest man – “Cool”, it seems, is a throwback to the teen comedies of the 80s, in particular John Hughes’ “Weird Science”.

It tells the story of a couple of highschool nerds who concoct a formula that’ll turn them into studs. Barton, of course, will play an object of desire for one of the newly-attractive boys.

Fitting in with the 80s theme, the film will be directed by William Zabka – best known as the evil ‘Johnny’ from the original (and the best!) “Karate Kid”.

More on Guttenberg’s involvement in the film as it comes to hand!