Certainly Josh Hutcherson must be bummed after not getting chosen to play Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s forthcoming “Spider-Man” reboot (his audition tape leaked online) but certainly he could be doing something better than rolling with Dane Cook.
Hutcherson is set to co-star with everybody’s favorite frat comic in the upcoming horror-comedy “Detention.” The tired concept “centers on teens who must survive their final year of high school. Standing in their way is a slasher-movie killer who has seemingly come to life.” Sigh. It sounds tedious already. And the talent behind it isn’t much better. Music video director Joseph Kahn, who also helmed “Torque” will direct from a script he wrote along with Mark Palermo.
The project will shoot next month after which Hutcherson will then begin work on the “Journey To The Center Of The Earth” sequel. We hope this isn’t a sign of things to come for Hutcherson because his talents deserve better than this. If you haven’t do so, get thee to a theater quickly and watch him in the excellent “The Kids Are All Right.”