First order of business. Cameron Crowe’s upcoming new comedy centered around super natural Hawaiian mysticism and a army satellite politics has a title. It’s now called “Deep Tiki.”
Secondly, the film has been postponed according to a Reese Witherspoon interview at Collider (they don’t have quotes). Instead she’s shooting an James L. Brooks film in the spring (“Deep Tiki” was supposed to start shooting in January, 2009).
We wrote an entire script review of the film a few months ago, but the synopsis is basically this: Set in Hawaii surrounding an illegal satellite launch in the skies above the pacific island, the dramedy/rom-com centers on the Defensecon military contractor Brian Gilgrest (Ben Stiller) who has to navigate and juggle the politics of the bosses, the supernatural myths of Hawaii’s spiritual leaders, the emotions for his almost-ex-wife and the tricky feelings he develops for his new difficult female military liaison (Witherspoon, we think).
Does a reschedule mean the cast will have to change? Lord knows actors skeds are massively tight. Might we suggest recasting Ben Stiller? 🙂 This one may now be more than a year off.
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2008. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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