We told ourselves we’re going to stop re-reporting every damn trade story under the sun because half of them just don’t interest us. We’ve gotten into the bad habit — as have others — of just regurgitating whatever Variety and THR report and again, most of the projects we couldn’t care less for, but it was just too hard to resist the urge to make this graphic.
So the gist is Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey are teaming-up for a contemporary film realization of the musical “Damn Yankees.”
Meh, we suppose it’s “movies and music” and while we do like some film musicals and many of them are very underrated or just dismissed by the ignorant, but these two actors are basically Hollywood lead. Gyllenhaal turns in a good performance every two-three years, but he does a lot of chum. And Carrey, well, we don’t need to tell you about him now do we? We’re honestly not familiar with “Damn Yankees” either, but on the surface it doesn’t sound like our sort of thing. But, ‘Yankees’ is about a baseball player who makes a Faustian pack with the devil to ensure his team will always be winners. Carrey naturally will play the devil and Gyllenhaal naturally play the bland, every-man ballplayer. [Variety]
The only real thing interesting about this article is that is says Jim Sheridan’s “Brothers” which Gyllenhaal starred in last year is complete. Now when the hell is it coming out? It’s seemingly been in limbo for a while now.
There’s also going to be an “Addams Family” on Broadway about the creepy “Munsters”-like family. It has a date now scheduled for April 2010. We don’t care about that either. [Vulture]
