2008 Fails To Produce Absilicious-Spartan-Warrior Money
· The 2008 box office year has been "solid rather than spectacular," failing to yet produce the kind of runaway, $200 million-earning blockbuster that 300 did for the first quarter of 2007. You want a hit? Turn South Heavy Metal Park into a feature. [Variety]
· Dennis Quaid and approximately two dozen other stars sign up for Legion: On the eve of Apocalypse, a "group of strangers...must deliver a baby they realize is Christ in his second coming." Or as it was pitched in the room, "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World meets Children of Men!" [Variety]
· Superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer has reteamed with his Pirates of the Caribbean writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio for a take on The Lone Ranger for Disney that promises to be as overbloated, over-CGId, and overly fucking confusing as their last outings. (Tonto's half-squid.) [THR]
· Second generation Bluth patriarch Jason Bateman will direct the Fox pilot The Inn, an "Upstairs/Downstairs set at a hip New York hotel." [THR]
· Just in case Wipe Out doesn't deliver all the herniated laughs its rock-solid premise suggests, ABC has ordered another comedy pilot, called Bad Mothers Handbook. [Variety]