Some interesting news on some films that are in various stages of production.
1. Director Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Grindhouse, Sin City) is currently trying to decide between two nostaligia films: Either a live-action version of the 1960s cartoon, The Jetsons or a movie based on the TV show, Land of the Lost. Will Ferrell has agreed to star in the LotL film, but The Jetsons movie already has a script. I'd rather he chose Land of the Lost, but The Jetsons seems like a project he would more likely do.
2. While conducting interviews for Shrek, Mike Myers said that he is in the planning stages right now to do a fourth Austin Powers movie and this one would be done completely from Dr. Evil's perspective. I really like the franchise, but I think Myers is seriously mis-guided if he thinks that's the best approach to this film. The Dr. Evil character really got played out in the third film. They would be better off making them more like Bond spoofs and have Austin battle a different villain in each one. Dr. Evil is supposed to be like Blofeld. He's the mastermind behind everything, but he doesn't actually commit the crimes.
3. After taking forever to pick a Friday, Michael Moore's latest documentary, Sicko, finally has an official release date: June 29. I really don't have anything to add, but I know some people have been waiting to hear when that film was finally going to get released.
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Austin Powers
An idea I have about how to spice up the Dr. Evil character is to give us his backstory. We could see parts of his childhood, his romance with the weird German woman, early crimes and capers, etc. If it's going to be Dr. Evil, we already know what an incompetent criminal he is and that all new crimes will fail. So let's see what brought him to his first fight with Austin Powers at a time when Powers had never heard of Dr. Evil. I can see Powers stealing Evil's girlfriend. I can see Powers being responsible for Evil's lack of hair. We can see when Evil first gets his hairless cat.
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- Dustin
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