Goddamn, we love you Will Arnett but you choose the shittiest movie projects to get attached to.
The “Arrested Development” star is yet again involved in what sounds like a huge turd of a movie. “Space Invader,” penned by Justin Theroux, is about a man who goes to space when he suspects his astronaut girlfriend is cheating on him with a spacewalker. It appears that Theroux, who has earned some cred in Hollywood with his scripts for “Tropic Thunder” and “Iron Man 2” is set to squander it on an idea that sounds like it was conceived on a cocktail napkin. And yes, people love him and we think his writing is great (plus “Dedication” his directorial debut with Mandy Moore was really underrated), but give us a break here, seriously. This sounds like a paycheck gig. Theroux we love you too and all, but really?
The guys behind the Ben Stiller trainwreck “The Heartbreak Kid” are producing this thing and our brain just turned to mush so we’re going to stop writing about this before ooze starts dripping out of our ears.
Update: Okay, both Arnett and Theroux are back, temporarily, in our good graces. If you haven’t been watch “Parks & Recreation,” please do yourself a favor and tune in because it is absolutely killing this season. The show, from the guys who did “The Office” and done in the same faux-documentary style follows Leslie Knope (Arnett’s wife Amy Poehler) as she gets into various misadventures in the public works department of small town Pawnee. Both Arnett and Theroux have signed on to do guest spots as love interests for Poehler. It seems to be recurring thread, as earlier this season Louis CK did a surprisingly touching turn as a police officer, also interested in Knope. And this reminds us that not everything post-“Arrested Development” has been dreck for Arnett. He did a pretty amazing guest spot on “Human Giant” a couple of years back. That show also featured one Aziz Ansari who is one of the funniest things about “Parks & Recreation” as well.
