I JUST DID ANOTHER JOKE THAT DIDN'T GO OVER. I'M YOUR CONSCIENCE: Okay, remember your initial reaction to
Jessica Alba and Jennifer Garner in Laverne and Shirley: The Movie? However optimistic or intrigued you were back then, you're going to have to integrate that with
this news from Garry Marshall: "Jamie [Foxx] and I are trying to do it. He’s writing it. It’s a whole different modern day take on how they came up on the streets during difficult times. Laverne would be this very tough girl with a big ‘L’ tattooed on her arm. Jennifer Garner would play Laverne and Jessica Biel would play Shirley."
Thanks, Adam, will now happily go watch that JF roast evisceration clip again.
ReplyDeleteI had avoided watching the Jamie Foxx clip for a long time. I sort of assumed it was a talented, successful guy beating up on a fourth tier talent unnecessarily. Not the case at all. That guy was terrible and Jamie Foxx gave the poor schmuck his only way out.
ReplyDeleteAre there still folks who haven't seen it? Here goes. NSFW:
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Sweet Zombie Jesus.
ReplyDeleteIs that for the concept of Foxx writing this movie or for the clip?
ReplyDeleteI found the idea of this movie appealing but a little scary before. Now I NO WANT IT!! And that is straight from my inner three your old, or as a two year old I used to nanny would always say, "I can't like this."
ReplyDeleteJennifer GARNER as a tough, tattooed Laverne? Cripes. I can't imagine that working out well. And Jamie Foxx as a writer... well, I don't know about that either. Maybe he can write, but if he can this is the first I've heard of it.
ReplyDelete@Heather K -- that is so funny, my nephew used to say "I can't like it!" all the time when he was two and three, and I've never heard of another kid doing that until now. I still say it sometimes, too, because it denotes an element of moral disapproval that you just don't get with "I don't like it."
Garry Marshall is completely senile. Did you see Valentine's Day? It was unbearably bad, an open rip-off of Love Actually without the heart or character development, plus a series of 80s gags and devices that I assume Marshall still thinks are brilliant.
ReplyDeleteAnd now with the ridiculous miscasting. Three seasons of Alias taught us that Jennifer Garner CANNOT DO ACCENTS. Now she's going to play a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, whether with an authentic Milwaukee accent or with Laverne's New Yorkish? And Jessica Biehl is in it, so I assume somehow prudish Shirley is going to have to strip down to her underwear for some reason. What's next -- Mario Cantone as the Big Ragu?
"David Simon Presents, Laverne and Shirley, The Movie, Based on the Novel 'Push Again,' By Sapphire."
ReplyDeleteI think for everything involved in this terrible idea.
ReplyDeleteNo. Just no.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a miscalculation on every level, but if Marshall insists on doing it with these two, he should at least switch the casting around. I buy Garner much more as the uptight, prim virginal one and Biel as the tough girl from the streets. Maybe I don't buy either of them that much, but certainly more than in the roles Marshall wants.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, if it turns out that the premise is Laverne & Shirley are secretly ninja assassins? That I would see. A Biel/Garner buddy action movie would be fun.
I'll see your "just no" and raise it to a "hell no."
ReplyDelete<span>Mario Cantone as the Big Ragu? </span>
ReplyDeleteThat's beats anything Garry Marshall has offered about this project.
Not Paul Rudd in his WHAS mode?
ReplyDeleteI do the exact same thing!!
ReplyDeleteI would hella go see that movie!
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