Some new, minor information has surfaced on McG’s next film, “This Means War.”
A few weeks ago we reported that Seth Rogen and Chris Pine were being sought for the spy-love-friendship movie, and EW has confirmed that Pine is in early negotiations to co-star along with Reese Witherspoon. In case you forgot, the film is about “two best friends, both of whom are spies, that go to war with each other after falling in love with the same woman.” It will deal with friendship, love, what happens when the two collide, etc. We’re sure it will have nothing profound to say about any of the aforementioned topics.
That rather simple log line has been in development for ten years (never a good sign), with Martin Lawrence and Gore Verbinski (“Pirates of The Caribbean”) interested at one point. Maybe if Fox chose someone with a few more ideas to bring to the table (i.e. not McG), the film would be moving at a quicker pace. Still no word on Rogen, but we personally doubt he’ll bite (and we personally hope he won’t). McG films don’t sound like Rogen’s bag and the much more interesting Sarah Polley film, “Take this Waltz,” in which he is involved, has the same July 2010 start date as the spy comedy, so we’re taking that as an indisputable pass (and “Take This Waltz” secured funding from the Canadian government earlier this spring so it should be good to go).
Although the film’s latest draft is one written by Timothy Dowling, the man behind “Role Models,” things can’t be looking too good if Bradley Cooper has backed out. This is the man who dealt with garbage like “Failure to Launch,” “The Rocker,” and “Yes Man.” If Cooper had “creative differences” with this film, who knows what level of abysmal the script actually is. Let’s not even get started on what it must mean if Martin Lawrence lost interest in the project.
We suppose we’ll find out later in the year, as the film seems to be chugging along even without the two main characters securely cast. Hopefully something amusing will come out of the shoot, maybe Christian Bale will stop by and recreate the berating of a crew member for old time’s sake. Surely that would be a hell of a lot funnier than the actual film’s idea. As with McG, anything can happen (except, apparently, casting actors).