The Return of Rufio
This is one I wasn’t expecting.
Dante Basco, who played Rufio the leader of The Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg‘s Hook, has plans to resurrect the character in a prequel.
Basco, who has become an indie-film producer and continues to act and do voice work (most prominently Jake Long in American Dragon: Jake Long and Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender), revealed that there is already a film in development and he’s involved as a producer.
“Rufio’s a great iconic character for a certain generation and
definitely something I’m always associated with, proud to be associated
with which is cool. I have a T-shirt company, Rufio Inc. and
we’re doing charity work to try to unite the Lost Boys of the world, try
to just raise funding and charity stuff for at risk youth, “Lost Boys.”
There’s a film in development, the Rufio
film, where a hotshot group of kids from the East Coast graduated and
they wrote this whole script, the prequel to Hook and it’s the Rufio story. We have it right now with a director, Rpin Suwannath who’s doing the new Zorro for
Fox. He has the script and he’s attached to the film and I’m attached
to produce so that’s actually in development right now which’ll be cool,
a Rufio for a whole new generation.
These guys have a whole storyline
of how he gets the Mohawk. The whole story’s crazy. These guys came with
the script, I’m like, “You guys wrote this?” Not only did they write
this, they did the musical in their college. They were going to go off
Broadway with it and then they lost their insurance and they came to
Hollywood. If anyone saw their play it’s that, but the newer version is
pretty intense. They added more action. I never saw the play but I think
they added more backstory to Rufio, like how he became Rufio which I
was impressed by.”
Penelope Spheeris Goes Back To High School
Director Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World, The Decline of Western Civilization documentary series) has signed on to direct Colin McCormack‘s screenplay, High School Sweethearts. The film, “is a parody about a perfect high school couple who fall in love their
freshman year, then slowly turn against each other to take down the
entire school in their senior year.”
Mark Duplass Will Hunt Bin Laden For Katherine Bigelow
Deadline reports that Mark Duplass has joined the Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in a key supporting role in Zero Dark Thirty.
Comic Vets Unleash The Shambler
David Michelinie and Bob Layton, best known for their work at Marvel Comics including a definitive run on Iron Man, are currently working on an adaptation of their creator owned title, The Shambler. “Touted as an action-horror-comedy, Shambler centers on a scientist who
creates a serum that reanimates dead tissue. He’s murdered but
reanimated by associates as a mummy encased in black-and-yellow crime
scene tape.”
Matt LeBlanc Goes Insane
Matt LeBlanc, who recently won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a fictionalized version of himself on Showtime’s Episodes, is headed back to the big screen, starring in the film, Lovesick. Luke Matheny, who won the Oscar for best live action short last year (God of Love) will direct the script by Dean Young. LeBlanc will play “Charlie Darby, who has everything a man could want except for
love, because every time he gets close, he goes clinically insane. When
he meets the perfect girl, he must overcome his psychosis to claim his
chance at true love.”
Hailee Steinfeld Leads Why We Broke Up
Hailee Steinfeld, who gained some well deserved attention for her breakout role in True Grit and has already wrapped Ender’s Game and Romeo and Juliet, will do something that she’s never done before; play a normal kid in present day high school.
She’s attached to star in Why We Broke Up, based on the book by Daniel Handler and to be directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. “Steinfeld will play Min, a high school sophomore and cinephile who
enjoys hanging out with friends at her favorite coffee shop. She falls
hard for Ed, a senior and captain of the basketball team, and gets
caught up in their whirlwind romance. The film unfolds a couple of weeks
after the break-up, when she dumps a letter and box of seemingly
meaningless mementos on his porch.”
