The Hush-Hush News Report 12.22.09: In Memorium - Brittany Murphy

Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 12.22.2009

This week we take a look at Brittany Murphy's career and what she meant personally as an actress. Plus, news on the new James Bond's shocker story, 21 Jump Street: The Movie, Romero's next Dead film getting a US distributor, Captain EO's return to Disneyland, Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise, new mini-reviews and more!

Welcome to the Hush-Hush News Report, dear readers! I'm your host Jeremy Thomas. It's been a wild week, with Christmas coming up fast, end of the year plans falling into full swing all around and of course, major movie news and rumors. We've got the best of the best here, all for you…see how nice I am, collecting it all in one place? It's okay, no applause necessary. Well, let's get right down to it, shall we?

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Morgan promises "Shocking Story" for Bond 23



While he couldn't discuss a great deal about the film, scribe Peter Morgan said we can expect ‘a shocking story' for the next James Bond feature reports MI6.

Currently in Vienna, Morgan was at work on the first draft of the "Bond 23" script from July to October of this year. He's known for his scripts for "The Queen," "The Last King of Scotland," "Frost/Nixon" and "The Damned United",

Pre-production work on the film however has now been put on hold until February as the heavily in debt MGM, through which EON Productions release the 007 pictures, is up for sale.

Despite the issues it's expected that filming will commence at the end of 2010 for a release November 2011.

Anything Peter Morgan is writing the script for, I'm fully behind. The man has failed to write a bad script to date, without exception. That his newest script involves Daniel Craig's James Bond just makes me twice as excited. I loved Casino Royale and enjoyed Quantum of Solace, but I still believe that there is room for improvement in this franchise. With Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade on board to provide continuity and Morgan's skill at writing interesting, conflicted characters this promises to be the best of the Bond films to date. There isn't a lot that's come out in terms of solid news for this film, but what has come out is positive and I can't wait to hear more.


21 Jump Street Forecast: Cloudy



"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" writer/directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are in talks to direct the "21 Jump Street" movie for Sony Pictures reports Variety.

Based on the Johnny Depp-led 80's TV series about a group of baby-faced cops who go undercover at high schools, the story for this contemporary film update isn't available as yet.

Mike Bacall penned the script from a story he and actor Jonah Hill developed together. Hill will star in the film and executive produce. Neal Moritz and Stephen J. Cannell will produce.

There is so much that is wrong with this news bit that I don't even know where to begin. First off, the idea of remaking 21 Jump Street into a feature film is terrible. The original was cheesy fun for what it was, but the odds of recapturing that magic are not strong. The original is most strongly known for Johnny Depp and Richard Grieco, and only one of those two actors were worth anything. As a hint, it wasn't the one who moved on to star in Booker. The second piece of "are you kidding me?" comes with the Cloudy writer/directing team coming on board. What in that film made someone think "yeah, they could make a good crime drama"? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Cloudy is a nice little family film, but it's not exactly the kind of project that inspires hope in its directors. And finally, who let Jonah Hill near the idea of writing this script? Hill can be funny in the right roles but I can't see him handling this as anything less than a spoof/parody. That would be the wrong way to go; there are plenty of cop spoofs out there. This is just an all-around terrible idea.


Romero's Survival Finds American Deal



The Wagner/Cuban Companies' Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, have announced today that it has acquired US rights to George A. Romero's "Survival of the Dead", the latest in the legendary and beloved series of zombie films which bowed at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals earlier this year.

The story takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island – a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust.

But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: the O'Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons insist that afflicted loved ones be kept "alive" until a cure is found. The result is an escalating showdown with echoes of a classic Western stand-off that erupts in brutality and violence.

Magnet will release the film as part of its Ultra VOD program this spring, debuting it on VOD platforms nationwide a month before its theatrical release.

I mentioned Survival of the Dead several weeks ago and included the trailer as the Random Video of the Week; it's nice to see that it's picked up a US distributor. Any zombie film with Romero behind the camera deserves to be given a chance, and this sounds and looks like a worthy entry in his Dead series. Whether it will get a remotely wide release or will languish in a few theaters before going to DVD is a matter of contention, but either way it's a better deal than they had before so this has to be considered good news for Romero and zombie film fans everywhere within the 50 states.


Paramount To Take A Holliday



Paramount Pictures is developing "Sergeant Rock" and "Outland" scribe Chad St. John's action adventure spec script "The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday" reports Variety.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean"-esque history-based action adventure will follow the tuberculosis-ridden gunfighter who formed a strong friendship with Western lawman Wyatt Earp.

Val Kilmer memorably played him in 1993's "Tombstone" and a year later Dennis Quaid starred as Holliday in Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp". Lorenzo di Bonaventura ("Transformers") is onboard to produce.

The "Pirates-esque" portion of the story makes me cringe, because I hate it when a studio sees a successful film and tries to pigeonhole another story into its format, but I can't help but think that this will be worth checking out. Doc Holliday is a character who a Western franchise could easily be based around; the main question is whether American audiences will get behind a Western franchise at all. While they've been critical successes as of late, Western films have been far from blockbusters in the last several years. Of course, the key components will be casting and direction, and we don't know enough about those yet to make a very informed opinion, but for now I'm hanging this in the "cautiously optimistic" closet.


EO Returns To Earth…and Anaheim



Disney has confirmed that the 17-minute long "Captain EO" will return to Disneyland for a limited engagement starting in February, 2010. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the George Lucas-produced 3D film stars Michael Jackson and Anjelica Huston. It features music by James Horner.

Disneyland says that "the attraction's return to Tomorrowland will provide new audiences the opportunity to experience the original 3D production for the very first time, as well as a nostalgic look back for longtime fans wanting to see 'The King of Pop' in a rare performance created for the big-screen, just one more time."

The "Honey I Shrunk The Audience" attraction will be closing sometime in the next few weeks to make way for the Captain's return.

I had a feeling that this would be coming eventually, and you know what more power to them. Captain EO got a lot of crap from a lot of people in the years following Jackson's public downfall, but at the time it was a fun (if admittedly cheesy) short film that I unabashedly enjoyed. Jackson's death and the re-rise of 3D all but guaranteed the project's eventual return to Disneyland, and I doubt that this will be quite as "limited" as they're planning if it does exceptionally well. This is a classic story that will certainly help Disney, and while it's a little crass to bring it out only now that Jackson's passed on and people don't adamantly hate him now, it re-presents the project and I'm on board with that.


Zamm to Make Friends with Myers the Martian?



According to the L.A. Times, Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment have signed director Alex Zamm to helm Marvin the Martian, the big screen feature film based around the Bugs Bunny nemesis introduced in the 1948 cartoon short "Haredevil Hare." Television vets Paul Kaplan and Mark Tosgrove have also been signed to write the screenplay for the movie based around the premise that Marvin plans to destroy earth on Christmas Day but ends up being wrapped up as a Christmas present instead. Marvin will be CG but surrounded by live actors similar to Alvin and the Chipmunks, Stuart Little, Garfield and yes, Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

The piece speculates one of the voices we might hear as Marvin is none other than Shrek himself, comedian Mike Myers, and that the producers have already spoken to him and others for the role.

Zamm has also signed up to make a movie based on Hanna Barbera's cartoon character "Hong Kong Phooey" although presumably that won't happen until after the completion of "Marvin." Currently, Marvin the Martian is on the release schedule for October 7, 2011, but one would expect this will move back a month or two to take advantage of the movie's holiday themes.

I can absolutely, 100% see Mike Myers playing Marvin the Martian. The voice is similar enough and Myers could frankly use the hit these days after bombs from Love Guru and Cat in the Hat. Amazingly, the Dr. Seuss film was the last non-Shrek starring vehicle he'd done before Guru. Myers has to realize that the ogre ride is about over and it's time to move on to newer pastures. Do I think that this film would be a good idea? Not at all. I generally think that live action and CG characters do not mix well and I don't expect this to be any different. Zamm's resume as a director is practically non-existent with direct-to-video Inspector Gadget and Dr. Doolittle sequels to his credit and little else, so there isn't much to this that fills me with confidence at all.


Singer Returns to Mutant Roots



Following his news at the "Avatar" premiere the other day that he's returning to the "X-Men" filled, director Bryan Singer tells Variety that the decision was one he thought long and hard about, ultimately agreeing when he found a storyline that interested him enough.

"This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where there relationship took a wrong turn. There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from 'X-Men' will figure into the plot, though I don't want to say which ones. There will be a lot of new mutants and a great villain" says Singer of the project entitled "X-Men: First Class".

Xavier and Magneto in the film are likely to be played by younger actors portraying the characters in their 20's/30's, which means many of the mutants from the "X-Men" films will simply be too young to appear.

"Whether it's 'Batman,' 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Star Trek,' if the characters are good, you want to see them on their journey even if you know their destiny. I put myself in the fan's position, and I think this story is something I would want to see, and so will they" adds Singer.

Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg are producing the project which will now move aggressively forward using a script that Jamie Moss ("Street Kings," "Ghost in the Shell") is writing based on a treatment by the director. Josh Schwartz had previously penned a script which will now be discarded.

Despite his commitment, Singer hasn't yet set his next project which could be New Line's "Jack the Giant Killer" or a remake of "Excalibur".

Bryan Singer did some great things with the X-Men franchise, which only fell apart after he left. His return is a shot in the arm in terms of credibility. Sure, he didn't exactly invigorate the Superman franchise but returning to known territory could be very for both the director and the mutant movies. I'm absolutely on board with a prequel as I think there are some strong stories still to be told in the X-Men universe, and Singer's comments are right on here. With Jamie Moss writing I expect some good conflicted characters, and perhaps a nice touch of darkness too. Frankly, so long as they don't use that alien-making technology to de-age Xavier, I'll be happy with this.


Clash Of the Reshoots



At a special screening of "Avatar" on Friday night in Los Angeles, actor Sam Worthington tells The Envelope that Warner Bros. is so pleased with the work done on the upcoming "Clash of the Titans" that they've been granted additional money.

"We're going to be going back and shooting more scenes for it, they cut loose with some money so we can add to it. We're going to be shooting more scenes in January, so we're going to be right up against it -- the movie comes out in March" said the very enthused Aussie these about Louis Leterrier's remake of the classic 1981 Greek myth-inspired fantasy epic.

Such a last minute rush for footage does make one wonder if there are some lingering issues, a fact the actor candidly says "There were some creaky parts but they are the parts that we knew were creaky and that we knew were going to be creaky going into it. The studio is also letting us add some gods and scenes. And they're talking about making the movie a 3D film."

The addition of more Gods doesn't come as a huge surprise. Hades (Ralph Fiennes) looks to have essentially replaced the original film's antagonist Thetis (Maggie Smith), but the original also featured cameos from actors like Clare Bloom and Ursula Andress in several scenes as the likes of Hera and Aphrodite.

Several actors are listed as some of the gods like Zeus (Liam Neeson), Poseidon (Danny Huston), Apollo (Luke Evans) and Athena (Izabella Miko) but it seems likely their scenes will be extended while some other notable names can be brought on for a day or two of shooting to both help sell the movie and give Mount Olympus a more well-populated look.

This has to be very encouraging news. Rarely does a studio just dish out extra money for new characters and extended scenes. I'm really starting to like Worthington as an actor, as he seems to be very candid and has his head on straight. He's also proving to be a fine actor and action star to boot. He acknowledges that there are, as he puts it, "clunky parts" but that there's work being done on it. There's nothing wrong with that; it's when the people behind a film try to stand up with big smiles and assure that everything is just F.I.N.E. that people start to smell the crap they're trying to shove under the carpet. The trailer for this film looked very impressive and while I was initially very skeptical, I now thing it could be an enjoyable time.

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From jersey:
well if you want cena for cap america but he is too big than flip a coin for one of his brothers from another mother mark wahlberg or channing tatum

I guess I haven't been clear...I don't want Cena for Captain America. In any way, shape or form. It's a terrible idea, bar none, end of story. And Channing Tatum would be an even worse choice, as he actually has less acting ability.


From Mario:
The Crazies remake is one I can certainly get behind. I liked the original by Romero, but as I watched it the first time I was thinking that the movie would really benefit from some updating. Hopefully they don't screw it up.

The original has its charms; it's a flawed but decent piece of film-making. From what I've seen, the remake looks like it'll be a lot of fun and provide some good, creepy moments. I can't wait.


From The Great Capt. Smooth:
I'd love to see a combo of Hangover and National Treasure. Women and money. It'd be every guy's fantasy.

That...would be interesting. I think I'll leave it at that.

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Julie & Julia: This dramedy from romantic comedy queen Nora Ephron flies on the strength of its wonderful performances, primarily that of Meryl Streep as Julia Childs. Streep embodies the idea of the famous chef in every measurable way and paired with a wonderful performance by Stanley Tucci as Paul Childs, they lift their half of the story into something that can easily be enjoyed. The more modern duo of Amy Adams and Chris Messina doesn't have as much flair or meat to their roles, but they do a good job with the material they have. This is a film that will make viewers hungry for certain, and the food provides a very pleasant distraction from the fact that Julie's story doesn't have quite enough to sustain its half. In attempting to find the parallels between the two women Ephron seems to be stretching, but thanks to the work of the actors and the wonderful attention to detail strewn throughout the production this is only a relatively minor complaint. While one could easily hope for more from a seasoned filmmaker like Ephron, what she gives us is something perfectly enjoyable on its own.

Final Rating: 7.5

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie: The first effort from Marvel Animation, 2006's Ultimate Avengers is not entirely successful, but it works more than it fails. The story is derived from the Ultimate Marvel universe and, like Superman Doomsday, attempts to update the characters into an animated film for the teenage crowd. There are some problems in characterization and some of the voice acting is uneven, such as David Boat as an over-the-top Thor and Nan McNamara as a rather weak Betty Ross. The rest of the voice acting is solid though; Michael Massee in particular does a great job playing Bruce Banner on the edge of reason and Olivia d'Abo is quite strong as the Black Widow. The animation is a step above DC's efforts at the time in the straight-to-video animated market and also stands ahead of the later Invincible Iron Man. The battle sequences are solid, though the alien villains are weak and hurt the overall story. In the end, this was a promising start to the films of Marvel Animation Studios and does a good job introducing characters that we'll be seeing in live action in a couple years, and that's about the best that can be said about it.

Final Rating: 6.5

Max: This examination of what could have been in the making of a monster earns a lot of points for its interesting premise, the performance of its stars and the attention of its director Menno Meyjes. John Cusack and Noah Taylor make a fine duo as Jewish art dealer Max Rothman and a young Adolf Hitler, and they make the movie work in wonderful ways. Taylor's performance of the man who becomes a genocidal dictator is enthralling and a joy to watch; it personalizes the man without excusing anything that he does or will do. Cusack's portrayal of Max, a man who acceptance of Hitler for the young anti-Semite-in-training because he thinks he can inspire another path, is quite good. Some plot contrivances are a bit much, but Meyjes's script covers most of the flaws with solid character-building. There are better "what if" movies out there, but the depth of the story and the solid performances make this one well worth seeing.

Final Rating: 8.0

Rumor Has It: Based on a real-life rumor about the source for the novel and film The Graduate, this romantic comedy had bad buzz from early on when writer Ted Griffin was fired as director and replace with Rob Reiner. Whether that improved or hurt the film, no one will know. However, it's hard to imagine that Griffin would have made this movie much worse. Jennifer Aniston stars in one of her blandest performances in which she has little chemistry with Kevin Costner, and the fact that her character needs a romantic spark with one who had slept with both her grandmother and mother is an example of how problematic the script is. Costner is tolerable, Mena Suvari is far from good as Aniston's sister and Mark Ruffalo seems embarrassed to be in this. Only the irrepressible charm of Shirley MacLaine adds any joy to this movie, which fails both as a romantic comedy and as an homage to a classic film.

Final Rating: 4.5

Blood Simple: The film that introduced both the Coen Brothers and Frances McDormand to movie fans, Blood Simple is most notable for the efforts of M. Emmet Walsh and Barry Sonnenfeld. Sonnenfeld's camera work is fantastic, featuring some very creative work which helps the Coens tell a neo-noir story with some serious bite and darkly comic themes. McDormand looks fabulous here and gives one of her best performances, one topped only by her work in Almost Famous. Dan Hedaya's villainous husband is likewise well-done and John Getz is wonderfully in over his head as Ray, but it is Walsh who steals the film with his sleazy and charming yet psychotic edge. The Coens made a very self-aware film, one that revels in its genre conventions but isn't afraid to twist things on its head nicely at times. The final shot makes a great statement for the film as a whole, a simple design that has been gloriously twisted into something funny and horrifying.

Final Rating: 8.0

Taking Woodstock: Ang Lee is a director whose films may not always succeed, but they've never failed to be interesting. Outside of a few inspired spots, Taking Woodstock is the film that breaks that trend. The story of how Elliot Tiber supposedly helped bring the Woodstock Festival to Bethel, New York has a few neat things going for it, including solid performances by Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman and particularly Liev Schreiber as a transvestite. Unfortunately there just isn't much to the movie. The usually terrific Emile Hirsch is ridiculously over the top as a Vietnam vet, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is wasted as one of the townsfolk and Dan Fogler doesn't impress one bit as the leader of an experimental theater group. Lee uses some nice camera tricks and the acid trip scene is impressive, but otherwise this is a film that fails by making a story around the Woodstock Festival a rather bland one.

Final Rating: 6.0

Inglourious Basterds: After the commercial failure of Grindhouse and the long-delayed development of the script, Quentin Tarantino had a lot to prove with Inglorious Basterds. To say he delivered is an understatement. The film is quintessential Tarantino by melding all the genres that he loves, crossing authenticity to the language and the era with the director's outlandish style in a seamless melding. The plot is quite dense and features some excellent performances, particularly Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent as the villain and heroine, respectively. Waltz plays a wonderful Nazi monster, alternately charismatic and vicious while Laurent smolders as the victimized woman hell-bent on revenge. The film is wonderfully made and has some of Tarantino's best dialogue to date. The climax is a surprise because you don't see it coming and has one of the most iconic images in a movie this year, with a certain face projected on smoke. This is a movie that not all filmgoers will like due to the subtitles, the heavy dialogue and the fact that the marketing machine portrayed a different kind of film, but those who can handle these will greatly enjoy it.

Final Rating: 9.5

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The Hush-Hush Editorial Section: In Memorium – Brittany Murphy

I had a plan for a Hush-Hush Editorial all ready for this week. I was going to talk about the movies I personally enjoy watching on Christmas. I had even started to gather some poster images and such for my usual format of film lists. Then, I got home from work on Sunday and logged onto the internet to find tragic news. For those who have been not paying attention to our lead story headers for the last thirty-six hours, actress Brittany Murphy died yesterday after going into cardiac arrest. According to information uncovered from our favorite vultures at TMZ at the time and since, Murphy was feeling ill for the last several days and had been taking prescription medication for the illness. She was found in the shower by her mother and rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as CPR was administered. Ultimately the efforts to resuscitate were in vain and Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 am. She was thirty-two years of age.

Honestly, I can never profess to being a huge fan of Murphy as an actress. I enjoyed her work, to be sure, but I won't be as disingenuous as to say I ever watched a movie strictly based on her casting. The first film I ever saw that she was in was 1996's Freeway, which starred Reese Witherspoon and Keifer Sutherland. Murphy did a nice job in this film playing a heroin-addicted lesbian in the prison where Witherspoon's delinquent is sent after assaulting Sutherland's serial killer in her own defense. I would later see her breakout role in 1995's Clueless as Alicia Silverstone's pet project Tai, and while she handled the role well I had preferred the previous film. Murphy's next projects would include nice turns in Drop Dead Gorgeous and Girl, Interrupted, both of which I had enjoyed. It was only later that the actress's choice of film roles would start to turn me off of her. Dumbed-down romantic comedies like Little Black Book, Just Married, and Uptown Girls went over like a lead balloon It seemed like Murphy would be another talented actress who was wasting her potential by trading it in on starring roles in bad movies, and I found myself often disappointed with her choice in film roles.

It wasn't until Sin City, the role I personally will remember her most for, that my opinion of her turned back around. Murphy played Shellie, the bartender at Kadie's who also happened to be the abused ex-girlfriend of Benicio Del Toro's Jackie Boy and current flame of Clive Owen's Dwight. Murphy displayed a fire in this movie she hadn't shown in some time, and while her role wasn't the most prominent in the ensemble film it made me stand up and take notice of her. At this point I began to go back and see some of her films I hadn't checked out before, like Spun, 8 Mile, Don't Say A Word and Riding in Cars with Boys. It became more evident that Murphy seemed to follow Ben Affleck's advice from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back: "First you do the safe picture, then you can do the art picture." There was something more to this actress underneath the rom-com surface, and I was very interested to see what she would do next.

Unfortunately of course, we'll never see if she got back on track. Murphy had three films that were slated to come out in 2009, the straight-to-video horror film Deadline, the yet-to-be-released thriller Abandoned and the limited release thriller Across the Hall. She hadn't gotten quite back on track, but certainly there was the feeling that greater things were still to come for this actress.

There's already a lot of speculation about the circumstances around Murphy's death; I won't go into them here because this isn't a column intended to sleaze-conjecture but to discuss her life. What I find most interesting though is the reaction to her death. Beside the whole rumors and theories floating around (all unconfirmed), I've found a considerable amount of people advertising based on her death. This is an unfortunate and frankly disturbing trend, the idea of profiting on the death of a person. Of course TMZ does this all the time and I could compose rants upon rants about that site; as much as I loathe Harvey Levin's business, they're unfortunately unusually accurate and typically the first to report on a death. TMZ can be expected to be sleazy and can be ignored, but even more respectable places have made remarkably crass statements. The DVD retail website DVD Empire was advertising her films in a prominent spot on the main page, for example. Reporting news, even in a somewhat scandalous fashion, can be expected. But for businesses to actively advertise their wares in an attempt to profit off of someone's demise is not a trend I hope to see continue. I know that I'm wrong about that, though.

For me, I'll always have my memories of Shellie and Rhonda, Fay Forrester from Riding IN Cars With Boys and Daisy the sex-abused bulimic from Girl, Interrupted. As I said before, I was never a huge Murphy fan but I always appreciated her work when she did something she truly believed in, and that's what I'll remember most about this actress who died one year younger than I am now.

Before we take off, it's time for the Random Video of the Week. This week has been a great week for trailers, with the trailers for Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, Salt, Robin Hood and the new trailer for The Crazies all coming out. I thought I'd give out a trailer for the upcoming Crazy Heart, which is earning Jeff Bridges the best reviews of his career and has already racked up a number of rewards. Check it out!

Until next week this is Jeremy Thomas, off the record, on the QT…



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