The Dotted Line: J Lo, Harrison and 'Iron Man II' Update
By Kit Bowen, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, December 22, 2008
THE DIRECTORS LINE ‘EM UP
The threat of an impending actors’ strike doesn’t seem to be affecting these directors much. First, Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski has acquired a 2007 Wall Street Journal article about online fantasy play, focusing on a married man who spends as many as 20 hours a day on a computer as a thriving, muscle-bound entrepreneur when in reality, he is a diabetic, chain-smoking 53-year-old. Then Barry Sonnenfeld will direct the action comedy The How-To Guide for Saving the World, about “a non-action-hero guy not unlike me, in terms of manliness, and a woman who hates him who find [an instruction manual for saving the world left behind by a secret group] and have to save the planet from an impending attack," Sonnenfeld told Variety. And finally Bedtime Stories’ Adam Shankman (above) is attached to two movie projects: Disney's Bob the Musical, about a mild-mannered man who suddenly hears the "inner song" of people's hearts after being struck in the head (which they stole from a Scrubs episode) and The 8th Voyage of Sinbad, retelling of the classic myth of sailor Sinbad and his crew, who are marooned off the coast of China and embark on a quest to find Aladdin's lamp. Looking forward to hearing the casting on these.
LAST WEEK'S DOTTED LINE: Brad, Ben and a New Moon