Prep the popcorn. Two major (for very different reasons) movie announcements have been riding the media waves this week.
The first, let’s just say, less sophisticated piece of cinema will has our 90s selves in a tail spin thanks to a genius casting decision which sees Backstreet Boys’ A.J. McLean, Nick Carter and his wife Lauren Kitt starring alongside NSYNC’s Joey Fatone. Yes, really.
Asylum, the very same filmmakers who gave the world the gift of Sharknado, are the people behind this particular piece of magic titled Dead 7 and to be released to the Syfy channel.
This squeal-worthy group of boy band alumnus appeared together at Comic-Con with Asylum over the weekend to promote the film described in a press release as being about, “a ragtag band of gunslingers who must rid a small town of a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic West.”
With that casting, mish-mash of genres, and group of filmmakers; we suspect this is going to be one of those so-bad-it’s-good moments that we just have to see.
Over on the more respectable, box-office ranking side of the spectrum, it has been announced that Jennifer Lawrence will be starring in a film adaptation of the novel by Australian author Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project. This much-loved book will be brought to life by Columbia Pictures.
Author Simsion has silenced rumours that Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber of 500 Days of Summer fame had written the script with a tweet to a Jennifer Lawrence fan account; “I’m delighted. But for the record, it’s not an adaptation. Screenplay came first. Neustadter and Weber have done the rewrite.”
For those of you who have read the book; Jennifer Lawrence will play the warm and wild Rosie who is Don Tillman’s love interest. No word yet on who will play Don, and truthfully it will be that casting decision that makes or breaks the film.
For those of you yet to read the book; it’s all about a socially inept genetics professor who creates a scientific survey to find his perfect match. It’s a wonderful read — heart warming without ever being twee, funny without force, and proof that a romantic comedy can be intelligent.
