Caffeinated Clint
Actor sells script. Actor makes money. Actor quits acting.
This dude… the dude to your right, you’d know from movies, right?
Sir pictured played the unworldly kitchen-hand Mitch in “Waiting” (2005) and before that, Rodney in the wretched “View from the Top” (2003). Some – and I say some because not enough of you watched the great lil’ show and as a consequence it lasted about as long as sex with an 89-year-old – may also remember him as kitchen-hand (typecasting already?) Jim on the sitcom “Kitchen Confidential”.
Well, seems John Francis Daley is a lot more than his eternally smiling face and geeky demeanour would deduce. He’s actually a talented scriptwriter.
According to Variety, Daley has sold his script – well, he wrote it with Jonathan Goldstein- “The $40,000 Man” to Benderspink. No word on how much the actor was paid for his papered effort but chances are it was more than market value on my car.
The story centers on a legendary astronaut and true American hero who finds himself horribly injured in a car accident and rebuilt by the government to be a bionic man, on a budget of $40,000 — which makes him not that bionic.
No doubt Lee Majors will get a call to cameo.
Acting-wise – according to the ever so trusty IMDB – 21-year-old Daley’s next film is called “5-25-77” which – as some geeks may have already realised by the title – revolves around a youngster’s battle to attend the new film “Star Wars” upon its initial release in 1977. Colleen Camp, Austin Pendelton and the “Scrubs” janitor, Neil Flynn, co-star. I’m assuming they’ll release this one after “Fanboys” – to cash in on the whole “Making fun of Star Wars fans is funny” trend.
