Here’s a great cinematic pairing in the making that probably will have some excellent chemistry (no really).
Zach Galifianakis and Amy Adams are reportedly in talks to join the Fox 2000 comedy project, entitled, “Town House.”
The really interesting part of the story is that Variety itself is dumbing-down. “Reportedly” means they don’t know for sure or they can’t confirm the rumor, which is basically what blogs do, but if the trades lower their standards aren’t we all fucked? Cause standards out there on some blogs can’t get any worse can they? But with traffic and the almighty dollar being key, you’ll probably see Variety and THR continue their blog style of regurgitating other people’s stories and or reporting rumors. Sigh. Guys, blogs only do it cause they don’t have the same access you have. Give us those rolodexs and contacts and we’ll original-report all day. We digress.
Back to you regularly scheduled program and let’s not totally discredit, Variety has the complete backstory and lots of details too. “Once” director John Carney was once attached to the project in 2007, but the writers strike screwed the project over and he eventually left.
The project is being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott through their Fox-based Scott Free banner and is evidently loosely-based of Tish Cohen’s debut novel (“Town House”) which is about an agoraphobic man who fights to save his house, his son and his sanity according to the Amazon description.
Variety adds that that the man “lives with his teenage son in a historic Boston townhouse that he inherited from his rock star father. With royalties from his father’s work dwindling, the man is forced to come to terms with his life… and a call girl strikes up a friendship with the man.”
So we can assume that the agoraphobe is Galifinakis and Adams it the call girl, so now all they need is someone to play the teenage boy. Doug Wright (writer of the unproduced “Bunny Lake Is Missing” remake) and Carney adapted the screenplay.
Fox wants to shoot in the summer of 2010 and Galifinakis is very sought after man because of “The Hangover’ so it’ll add depend on his schedule (and Adams’ too to a lesser extent). What’s great about Galifinakis becoming a character-actor-like leading man is that since, he’s not George Clooney, a lot of little oddball dramedies like this one are being greenlit and if Galifinakis keeps lending his name to cool little projects — like Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” which he’ll only have a supporting role in — we could get some nice highlight releases amidst the “Transformers 3” and “G.I. Joe 12” onslaught that’s sure to befall us in the next two years.
Everybody wants you Zach, so keep making smart choices.
