The guy who wrote it, Dan Fogelman, is a genius, and is currently the hottest screenwriter in the world. He's making millions, and he deserves it.
Here's what I wrote about it at the time:
LOGLINE: “Straight-laced, forty-something Cal Weaver is living the dream – good job, nice house,great kids, and marriage to his high school sweetheart - but when Cal learns that his wife, Emily, has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his ‘perfect’ life quickly unravels.”It's the kind of thing you read and think "oh, this is easy, anyone can write a movie!" No, they can't. It's damn near impossible.
It's a great script, and shows why you can't always trust a logline. The weird thing about it is there is not a single original thing in it. Not one. You've seen all of it before, and yet...the script is amazing! He did it in an original, funny way, that you can completely see as a movie. He is a beast. Congrats.
I don't think this is the type of movie that will be screwed up from script to screen. Judging from the trailers, they seemed to just shoot what he wrote. It may not be your cup of tea, but I can guarantee you that my mom is going to love it.
Ryan Gosling is in it as the "playa" who teaches Carell how to be a ladies man. I never would've pictured Gosling in the role when I read it. I thought they would go with someone who is, you know, actually good looking.
He's what I would call "famous looking". Girls say he's hot now, but before he was rich and famous, no one was looking at him twice. He was convincing as a guy who has to date a sex doll, for Christ's sake. He looks like David Arquette's little, better at acting brother. And no, David Arquette isn't handsome either.
But after seeing the commercials, it looks like he pulled it off. Probably because he is an amazing actor, and also because he did a lot of crunches.
Just as this movie is about to come out, another Ryan Gosling movie is starting to get promoted. It's called "Drive". And coincidentally, I also read that script.
Unfortunately, I didn't make it past page 20.
But I watched the trailer and it looked pretty good.
Why didn't I get past page 20? Well, the premise is fucking insane. Here it is:
The best getaway driver in the world.
That's the premise. It's a guy who is really good at driving. So good, in fact, that criminals hire him to be their getaway driver when they do their criminal stuff.
He's a free agent to the underworld, offering his services of really good driving.
What the hell?
I don't think that's how that works. I think criminals are okay enough at driving that they don't have to pay a guy a cut of their heist to drive for them.
And also? If you're that dependent on a getaway driver to pull your job, then maybe you should take another 5 minutes and figure out a better plan.
"Well, all the cops are going to come immediately, so we better have the Jeff Gordon of getaway drivers on our side. There's no way in the world we can do this without the cops just immediately chasing us".
So I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get over the premise of that one, no matter how good the preview looks, or the fact that Christina Hendricks giant boobs are costarring.
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