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Behind the Scenes
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| Chris Rock | Jim Slotek
November 2009
Movie Entertainment
JACKIE BLUE
Ashton Kutcher? Nope. Topher Grace? Nuh-uh. Since her leading lady turn in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Mila Kunis – aka teen diva Jackie – has been shaping up as the biggest name out of That ’70s Show.
The scene-stealer from Mike Judge’s workplace comedy Extract will be seen next year opposite Denzel Washington in the post-apocalyptic flick The Book Of Eli. But what really has fanboys excited is a leaked script from Black Swan, the psychological/supernatural drama by Darren Aronofsky which starts filming this month and which casts Kunis and Natalie Portman as ballet dancers with a dark relationship.
Crucial to the portrayal, a reported “aggressive” sex scene between the two starlets. “I can’t deny or confirm that,” Kunis told us when we asked her about the report. “Let’s just say there are a lot of interesting scenes.
“What I don’t understand is the script is so under lock and key that I can’t imagine how anybody could get a hold of it. Darren Aronofsky is very private about this rewrite. I got a copy but it is so watermarked, you’d know it came from me. Natalie’s got a copy, and I know there’s like two more out there.”
One thing she admits was “aggressive” was the ballet training. “Look at that muscle,” she says, flexing a bicep. “That never existed. It’s seven days a week at an average of four hours a day. And you contort your body. Nothing that you do is natural in ballet. As far as a full body workout goes, it’s just insane. But I have more respect for ballet dancers than I ever had in my life.”
DEATH ROCK
Just one of those weird coincidences, I suppose, but both of Chris Rock’s next two movies – both shot this year – open at funerals. “Basically, I got two funeral movies in a row,” Rock tells us. “That’s a lot of death.” In Neil LaBute’s Death At A Funeral, co-written by Rock and co-starring
Martin Lawrence – an “urban remake” of the 2007 Brit comedy – “I’m at my dad’s funeral, and his gay lover shows up and tries to extort me, and hilarity ensues.”
Rock is also in the Adam Sandler movie Grownups. “It’s The Big Chill with a lot of jokes. Guy dies, we come back for the funeral, we’re all grown up. Me, Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, and hilarity ensues.”
RESIDENT EVIL CARDINAL RICHELIEU
He’s just wrapping up the fourth Resident Evil movie in Toronto, but horror guy Paul W.S. Anderson (Alien Vs. Predator) has a date with a more courtly action film.
As soon as he’s done editing Resident Evil: Afterlife, he’s set to start filming The Three Musketeers in 3-D. The Alexandre Dumas tale has been lying fallow on Hollywood project lists since the 1993 movie with Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Chris O’Donnell.
R.I.P. SEQUELS
OK, maybe it’s premature to pronounce the death of sequels, what with the Spider-Man franchise still churning. But the term is pretty five-minutes-ago. These days it’s all about “rebooting.”
And we don’t mean when the scriptwriter’s MacBook crashes on a hackneyed plot point.
Think The Incredible Hulk, or Rob Zombie’s reboot of John Carpenter’s Halloween series, or upcoming “reboots” of The Fantastic Four and Daredevil (wherein the studios pretend the originals never happened).
Now, on the heels of the hit stage musical, Dirty Dancing is reportedly being rebooted as a movie by Lion’s Gate. And why not? They distributed an actual Dirty Dancing sequel – Havana Nights – and it stunk worse than a stale Cuban cigar.
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