Welcome to another Big Screen Scoop, where enough time has passed that discussing the tattooed Joker look would be totally old and redundant, thankfully. And speaking of old and redundant, let’s talk about Death Note
ADAM WINGARD TO TAKE A DEATH NOTE MOVIE…AND DIRECT IT
Hollywood, timely as ever with their western adaptations of the most popular anime/manga, looks to be resurrecting the dream of a Death Note film, about eight years after that would have been a really big deal. Just as Dragonball: Evolution came out years after Dragonball Z was the biggest thing in anime in the west, just as a definitely terrible American Akira rears its ugly head every few years and just as Scarlett Johansson was deemed the perfect person to play someone named Motoko Kusanagi, so Hollywood gets out the white paint once again to adapt something from Japan when maybe they shouldn’t.
It’s not all bad though, as talented young director Adam Wingard is the one being tapped to direct this film, the classic tale of boy-meets-magic-book-that-kills-people. The director of macabre, but self aware films You’re Next and The Guest is as good a candidate as any to put a good spin on this adaptation, and is slated to begin working on it after the completion of his next film, The Woods. Then when this is done, Hollywood’s speed at adapting the new hot anime everyone likes should churn out an American Attack on Titan some time in 2037.
THE ‘IT’ THAT FOLLOWS MAIKA MONROE IS INCREASED CAREER PROSPECTS
You can really here these titles creaking under their own weight..regardless, it’s a double-dip on exciting opportunities for people associated with The Guest this week, as the star of that film and indie-horror sleeper-hit It Follows Maika Monroe has joined the cast of the Independence Day sequel that is apparently happening.
Monroe will play the film’s female lead (for a given value of what that means in a Roland Emmerich film), the love interest of Liam Hemsworth and daughter of Bill Pullman’s President of the United States. This raises a couple of questions: Firstly, is Bill Pullman still the POTS, like 20 years after Independence Day? What kind of dodgy legislation did he put through after the alien invasion? Secondly, is this the same daughter that Mae Whitman played in the first film? Was Mae Whitman offered this part? Considering that they’re getting the original film’s actors to return and Whitman has maintained a solid acting career into adulthood you’d think recasting her would be as Ann as the nose on Plain’s face, but I guess not.
NEW COKE MOVIE IS IT
Coca-Cola’s attempt to ward off the threat of Pepsi when they already outsold them by changing the taste of their own product and confronting people with change, the thing they like the least, was one of the most famous marketing failures of all-time. Now, a New Coke movie is being made, which will hopefull be replaced with a director’s cut New New Coke movie, before changing again after complaints to New Coke movie Classic.
The film will be based on Thomas Oliver’s book, The Real Coke, The Real Story and will be scripted by Deadpool writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. The writers reportedly spent their own money in optioning Oliver’s book.
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New Coke Movie