Jesus, can we get a hit in Hollywood that’s not even been released so we can dig through our drawers and pull out every single script idea we ever had and make it into a full-blown movie?
That appears to be what’s happening to lucky bastards director David Gordon Green and funnyman Danny McBride ala the Judd Apatow school of having every friggin’ project you’re working on green lit.
Strike while the iron is hot we suppose. Normally an idyllic indie auteur, Green has obviously hit the bigtime with the not-yet-released Apatow comedy “Pineapple Express,” that features McBride in a supporting role. Everyone in Hollywood apparently has seen ‘Express’ and loved it. The duo of Green and McBride (who go way back to their college years and the film “All The Real Girls”) have already gotten the green light for the medieval stoner comedy, “Her Highness,” and now the pair are turning in another script to Universal called, “Mr. Machine.”
“It’s our take on those old Amblin films – it follows around these science fair geeks that construct this robot that gets a life of its own. It’s like… I don’t know, a ‘Short Circuit’ zombie movie,” McBride recently told CHUD.
Co-written by Green, it’s unclear whether he will direct, but he sounds interested. [It’s] something we wrote before all of this happened, and we went back and dug it out and reinvented it. David originally had no interest in directing it, but now after where we’ve gotten this puppy, he [does].”
But before that can even happen, “Her Highness,” is on tap first. What’s that going to be like? “We want to do our take on a movie like ‘Krull’ or ‘Dragonslayer’,” he said. “We’re making a movie that looks and feels like that, and uses those old special effects. David is great about hitting tones like that. He embraces the tone on another level. I think it would be funny for him to make his Clash of the Titans. It would probably be the dumbest movie ever made.”
Umm, yeah. While it’s not green-lit yet, these jackasses are making us even more jealous now that every cockamamie idea that pops into their head gets made into a movie. We made the wrong friends in college.
