The Dotted Line: Gerald, Jennifer and a Prison Musical
By Kit Bowen, Hollywood.com Staff
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
WE’LL PUT A HEX ON YOU
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have dropped out as the directors of Jonah Hex, the DC Comics property that is expected to star Josh Brolin as a partly disfigured gunslinger and bounty hunter, says Variety. Neveldine and Taylor wrote the script, but their exit as directors was attributed to "creative differences." Oh, they all say that.
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PITT’S BEHIND THE POWER OF THE PRESS
Now, this one sounds intriguing. Brad Pitt's studio-based production company is developing a movie around the real-life story of Missouri journalist Linda Trest, who helped break open the cover of a drug-busting con man, says the Reporter. The 51-year-old Trest was a reporter for the Gasconade County Republican in Gerald, Mo., when she began hearing stories about a federal agent nicknamed "Sergeant Bill" who was rousting people from their homes. Since Gerald had been ravaged by methamphetamine abuse, local law enforcement was happy to assist the fed's efforts to clean up the town with arrests, home searches and investigations. The only hitch: Bill A. Jakob turned out to be just an unemployed cop and former trucking company owner from a different town with no actual law enforcement credentials. Trest eventually exposed Jakob's bizarre con. To play Trest, I’d pick Emma Thompson.