Lucasfilm unveiled the teaser trailer for its “four-piece” animated special, “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy” (streaming September 13 on Disney+), where the entire galaxy gets completely mixed up, reversing good and evil.
From showrunners and executive producers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, “Rebuild the Galaxy” concerns nerf-herder Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo), who unearths a powerful artifact called The Cornerstone from a hidden Jedi temple, forcing him to rebuild the twisted galaxy.
The Lucasfilm mashup of Lego sets includes Ewok bounty hunters, Geonosian Jedi, and even Darth Jar Jar. They also snap together Imperial X-fighters, Rebel Tie-wings, and the Dark Falcon.
“Rebuild the Galaxy” marks the 25th year in the ongoing collaboration between Lucasfilm and the Lego Group. A teaser poster has also been released, featuring the “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy” logo, a starfield comprised of Lego studs, and the Cornerstone.
“The opportunity to work with Lego and Lucasfilm...
From showrunners and executive producers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, “Rebuild the Galaxy” concerns nerf-herder Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo), who unearths a powerful artifact called The Cornerstone from a hidden Jedi temple, forcing him to rebuild the twisted galaxy.
The Lucasfilm mashup of Lego sets includes Ewok bounty hunters, Geonosian Jedi, and even Darth Jar Jar. They also snap together Imperial X-fighters, Rebel Tie-wings, and the Dark Falcon.
“Rebuild the Galaxy” marks the 25th year in the ongoing collaboration between Lucasfilm and the Lego Group. A teaser poster has also been released, featuring the “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy” logo, a starfield comprised of Lego studs, and the Cornerstone.
“The opportunity to work with Lego and Lucasfilm...
- 5/7/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The animated TV special “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy”, directed by Chris Buckley, stars Gaten Matarazzo (“Sig Greebling’), Tony Revolori (‘Dev Greebling’), Bobby Moynihan (‘Jedi Bob’), Marsai Martin (‘Yesi Scala’), Michael Cusack (‘Servo’) and Ahmed Best (‘Darth Jar Jar’), streaming September 13 on Disney +:
“…the entire galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary ‘nerf-herder’ Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact from a hidden ‘Jedi’ temple.
“ He finds himself thrust into an adventure in a new, wondrously wild and twisted version of the galaxy where good guys are bad, bad guys are good and the fate of all depends on Sig becoming the hero who can put all the pieces back together…”
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“…the entire galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary ‘nerf-herder’ Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact from a hidden ‘Jedi’ temple.
“ He finds himself thrust into an adventure in a new, wondrously wild and twisted version of the galaxy where good guys are bad, bad guys are good and the fate of all depends on Sig becoming the hero who can put all the pieces back together…”
Click the images to enlarge…...
- 5/6/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Today, Disney+ unveiled the teaser trailer and poster for the “four-piece” animated special Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. Launching on September 13, the special showcases the longtime collaboration between Lucasfilm and the Danish toy manufacturing company The Lego Group.
“It’s hard to believe that it’s been twenty-five years since the ground-breaking collaboration between Lucasfilm and The Lego Group began,” says executive producer James Waugh. “In that time, Lego Star Wars has given our fans the unique power to unlock their imaginations and play with the galaxy’s elements in any way they can conceive… and build.”
Waugh added: “It’s with that playful spirit in mind that we set out to ‘Rebuild the Galaxy’ like never before. Tapping into the comedic genius of Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, two of the most talented comedy writers I’ve had the fortune of working with, we’ve mixed and matched...
“It’s hard to believe that it’s been twenty-five years since the ground-breaking collaboration between Lucasfilm and The Lego Group began,” says executive producer James Waugh. “In that time, Lego Star Wars has given our fans the unique power to unlock their imaginations and play with the galaxy’s elements in any way they can conceive… and build.”
Waugh added: “It’s with that playful spirit in mind that we set out to ‘Rebuild the Galaxy’ like never before. Tapping into the comedic genius of Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, two of the most talented comedy writers I’ve had the fortune of working with, we’ve mixed and matched...
- 5/6/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Sean Hannity will no longer receive the conservative Media Research Center’s William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence and the Fox News host landed in a Twitter feud with CNN’s Jake Tapper over the situation. The award’s namesake Buckley, who founded the National Review, died in 2008. His son, best-selling author Christopher Buckley, “expressed great dismay,” that the award would go to Hannity, according to Tapper. “Giving an award in his name to Hannity — a pugnacious talk radio host who has shared conspiracy theories on his popular cable news show — had caused hand wringing among some conservatives,” Tapper wrote.
- 7/21/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Is Reese Witherspoon Hollywood's biggest book mogul? Witherspoon turned Gone Girl into a box-office hit with her production company, Pacific Standard. Then she performed the same magic with Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, which led to an Oscar nomination for herself. When she isn't converting books into films, she's posting about them on Instagram for her book club. Using the hashtag #RWBookClub, Witherspoon's favorites range from You'll Grow Out Of It by Jessi Klein to Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes. Many of the stories feature edgy, smart, imperfect women, and Witherspoon promises they're all great reads. To start your own #RWBookClub journey,...
- 9/26/2016
- by Sam Gillette, @sgillette7
- PEOPLE.com
Is Reese Witherspoon Hollywood's biggest book mogul? Witherspoon turned Gone Girl into a box-office hit with her production company, Pacific Standard. Then she performed the same magic with Cheryl Strayed's memoir Wild, which led to an Oscar nomination for herself. When she isn't converting books into films, she's posting about them on Instagram for her book club. Using the hashtag #RWBookClub, Witherspoon's favorites range from You'll Grow Out Of It by Jessi Klein to Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes. Many of the stories feature edgy, smart, imperfect women, and Witherspoon promises they're all great reads. To start your own #RWBookClub journey,...
- 9/26/2016
- by Sam Gillette, @sgillette7
- PEOPLE.com
"What if [fathers] could only pass down one thing -- one book, movie, album or work of culture -- for their sons or daughters to treasure the same way they do?"
Editors at Salon have brought this question to a group of distinguished dads, including writer Christopher Buckley, pilot Chesley Sullenberger, New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey and restaurateur Joe Bastianich, in time for Father's Day. Choices so far range from "Star Wars" to "A Christmas Carol," The Beatles to "Moby-Dick" -- and of course, every dad has a highly personal explanation for his choice.
Each essay in the series is excerpted in the slideshow below. Click over to Salon to read the entire series, -- and let us know what you'd pass on to your kids in the comments below.
Editors at Salon have brought this question to a group of distinguished dads, including writer Christopher Buckley, pilot Chesley Sullenberger, New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey and restaurateur Joe Bastianich, in time for Father's Day. Choices so far range from "Star Wars" to "A Christmas Carol," The Beatles to "Moby-Dick" -- and of course, every dad has a highly personal explanation for his choice.
Each essay in the series is excerpted in the slideshow below. Click over to Salon to read the entire series, -- and let us know what you'd pass on to your kids in the comments below.
- 6/15/2012
- by Emma Mustich
- Huffington Post
Will Ferrell can currently be seen in theaters in the Spanish-language comedy, Casa De Mi Padre. The actor is set to star in a new comedy from New Line called Crazy U, according to Deadline. The film is based on Andrew Ferguson's book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, which the studio has just bought screen rights for. The story is about "one father’s adventures trying to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college."
Here is the official description from the book:
Getting into college drives students to the brink of madness—and pushes their parents over the edge.Pummeled by peers, crazed by counselors, and addled by advice books, beloved writer Andrew Ferguson had come to believe that a single misstep in the race to college could wreck his son’s future.Crazy U...
Here is the official description from the book:
Getting into college drives students to the brink of madness—and pushes their parents over the edge.Pummeled by peers, crazed by counselors, and addled by advice books, beloved writer Andrew Ferguson had come to believe that a single misstep in the race to college could wreck his son’s future.Crazy U...
- 3/26/2012
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Since his last mainstream comedy feature being The Other Guys, Will Ferrell has taken a few interesting routes in his career as of late. We’ve seen him in the drama Everything Must Go, the bizarre, hilarious Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, and most recently in the Spanish-language dramedy Casa De Mi Padre. Serving producer on the latter two, he has now found another project he can both develop and possibly star in.
Deadline reports that New Line has bought the rights to Andrew Ferguson’s novel Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College. Ferrell may star in the project which would see him as a father dealing with the stressful time of finding a perfect collegiate choice for your child. Instead of taking a dramatic route, it goes the other way which seems fitting for the comedic actor. Check out a full...
Deadline reports that New Line has bought the rights to Andrew Ferguson’s novel Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College. Ferrell may star in the project which would see him as a father dealing with the stressful time of finding a perfect collegiate choice for your child. Instead of taking a dramatic route, it goes the other way which seems fitting for the comedic actor. Check out a full...
- 3/26/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive Jane Lynch will interview Amy Poehler as part of the Live Talks Los Angeles discussion series, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Former ABC News President David Westin -- as well as authors Christopher Buckley, Scott Turow and John Irving -- are also on the series' latest lineup. Also read: Jane Lynch Runs Amok at Barnes & Noble in Book Trailer (Video) The discussion between "Glee" star Lynch and "Parks and Recreations" star Poehler will be held February 12 at Santa Monica's Aero Theatre. "I'm thrilled to interview Amy Poehler at Live Talks Los Angeles," Jane Lynch...
- 1/16/2012
- by Kurt Orzeck
- The Wrap
Exclusive Jane Lynch will interview Amy Poehler as part of the Live Talks Los Angeles discussion series, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Former ABC News President David Westin -- as well as authors Christopher Buckley, Scott Turow and John Irving -- are also on the series' latest lineup. Also read: Jane Lynch Runs Amok at Barnes & Noble in Book Trailer (Video) The discussion between "Glee" star Lynch and "Parks and Recreations" star Poehler will be held February 12 at Santa Monica's Aero Theatre. "I'm thrilled to interview Amy Poehler at Live Talks Los Angeles," Jane Lynch...
- 1/16/2012
- by Kurt Orzeck
- The Wrap
New York (The Associated Press) -- Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead and his editor has finally gotten around to re-reading it.
"I'm happy to report that I love it," Robert Gottlieb said Wednesday night before hundreds gathered at the Symphony Space performing arts center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "(But) I kept wanting to edit it. I kept thinking, `How did I let this go by?'"
Gottlieb appeared with two other Heller experts – Mike Nichols and author Christopher Buckley, representing those who met the author in his 30s (Gottlieb), in middle age (Nichols) and in his final years (Buckley).
Interviewed by CBS television correspondent Lesley Stahl, they reminisced about a perpetually anxious, but life-affirming former World War II flyer and advertising man whose dark send-up of war and bureaucracy anticipated the disillusion of Vietnam. The novel that has sold more than 10 million copies,...
"I'm happy to report that I love it," Robert Gottlieb said Wednesday night before hundreds gathered at the Symphony Space performing arts center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "(But) I kept wanting to edit it. I kept thinking, `How did I let this go by?'"
Gottlieb appeared with two other Heller experts – Mike Nichols and author Christopher Buckley, representing those who met the author in his 30s (Gottlieb), in middle age (Nichols) and in his final years (Buckley).
Interviewed by CBS television correspondent Lesley Stahl, they reminisced about a perpetually anxious, but life-affirming former World War II flyer and advertising man whose dark send-up of war and bureaucracy anticipated the disillusion of Vietnam. The novel that has sold more than 10 million copies,...
- 10/20/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
New York (The Associated Press) -- Fifty years after the publication of "Catch-22," author Joseph Heller is long dead and his editor has finally gotten around to re-reading it.
"I'm happy to report that I love it," Robert Gottlieb said Wednesday night before hundreds gathered at the Symphony Space performing arts center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "(But) I kept wanting to edit it. I kept thinking, `How did I let this go by?'"
Gottlieb appeared with two other Heller experts -- Mike Nichols and author Christopher Buckley, representing those who met the author in his 30s (Gottlieb), in middle age (Nichols) and in his final years (Buckley).
Interviewed by CBS television correspondent Lesley Stahl, they reminisced about a perpetually anxious, but life-affirming former World War II flyer and advertising man whose dark send-up of war and bureaucracy anticipated the disillusion of Vietnam. The novel that has sold more than 10 million copies,...
"I'm happy to report that I love it," Robert Gottlieb said Wednesday night before hundreds gathered at the Symphony Space performing arts center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "(But) I kept wanting to edit it. I kept thinking, `How did I let this go by?'"
Gottlieb appeared with two other Heller experts -- Mike Nichols and author Christopher Buckley, representing those who met the author in his 30s (Gottlieb), in middle age (Nichols) and in his final years (Buckley).
Interviewed by CBS television correspondent Lesley Stahl, they reminisced about a perpetually anxious, but life-affirming former World War II flyer and advertising man whose dark send-up of war and bureaucracy anticipated the disillusion of Vietnam. The novel that has sold more than 10 million copies,...
- 10/20/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The birther craziness, along with the innuendo about Obama's grades and the purging of dissenters, revealed a deep Gop divide that risks undermining the party going into 2012, says Howard Kurtz.
The regular Tuesday meeting of the House Republican caucus grew heated last month when some of the more seasoned lawmakers said it was time to "shut up," as one put it, about the birther issue.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
The caucus has 85 new members, more than 30 of whom are new to elective office- "the kamikazes," they are privately called-and some took strong exception to being urged not to talk about President Obama's birth certificate. "Well, I don't think he was born in this country," one freshman snapped.
The birther nonsense seems especially pointless-and corrosive-when one considers that Obama was planning the helicopter raid that would kill Osama bin Laden days later,...
The regular Tuesday meeting of the House Republican caucus grew heated last month when some of the more seasoned lawmakers said it was time to "shut up," as one put it, about the birther issue.
Related story on The Daily Beast: How Palin's Winning the Media War
The caucus has 85 new members, more than 30 of whom are new to elective office- "the kamikazes," they are privately called-and some took strong exception to being urged not to talk about President Obama's birth certificate. "Well, I don't think he was born in this country," one freshman snapped.
The birther nonsense seems especially pointless-and corrosive-when one considers that Obama was planning the helicopter raid that would kill Osama bin Laden days later,...
- 5/9/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
What Happens in Vegas helmer Tom Vaughan will direct Boomsday, an adaptation of the Chris Buckley novel. Ron Bass and Jen Smolka wrote the script. GreeneStreet Films is fully financing and producing with Das Films. Production begins mid-2011. Buckley, who wrote the satiric Thank You For Smoking, this time focuses on a DC publicist who uses her blog to vent her frustrations, and who makes a humorous suggestion that senior citizens voluntarily commit suicide to solve the Social Security crisis. A handsome politician champions her "cause," and the young publicist finds herself over her head, romantically and politically. Sriram Das is producing with GreeneStreet's John Penotti, and Glen Basner's FilmNation is selling foreign rights through its partnership with GreeneStreet. It's the second go project for Das Films and GreeneStreet, which is teamed with Sidney Kimmel on an apaptation of the Craig Clevenger novel The Contortionist's Handbook, which will star Channing Tatum.
- 10/7/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Tom Vaughan will direct Boomsday, an adaptation of the Chris Buckley novel which Ron Bass and Jen Smolka have written the script for. Deadline reports that GreeneStreet Films is financing as well as producing alongside Das Films with production looking to start some time in the middle of 2011. Buckley wrote the Jason Reitman-directed comedy/drama Thank You For Smoking. The film is being produced by GreeneStreet's John Penotti along with Siriam Das. The story tells of a publicist in DC who makes use to her blog to vent her frustrations and makes a humorous suggestion that senior citizens voluntarily commit suicide to solve the Social Security crisis. Her "cause" is championed by a handsome politician and she ends up finding herself over her heard - both politically and romantically. publicist finds.
- 10/7/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Screenwriter Javier Rodriguez will adapt the 1994 Jonathan Lethem novel "Gun With Occasional Music" for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans producers Gabe and Alan Polsky. The Hollywood Reporter says the sci-fi noir hybrid "follows an archetypal private eye through Oakland and San Francisco as he delves into the murder of a prominent urologist in a futuristic world that includes supersmart children, erotic nerve-swapping and a menacing kangaroo that works for the mob." The Polsky brothers also have in development adaptations of John Williams' "Butcher's Crossing" and Christopher Buckley's "God Is My Broker."...
- 1/7/2010
- Comingsoon.net
By Christopher Stipp
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In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp)—the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a...
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In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp)—the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a...
- 12/11/2009
- by Christopher Stipp
First we had Lawrence of Arabia, as Peter O'Toole set out to bring Brit T.E. Lawrence's Wwi experiences in Arabia to the big screen. Now we're getting his epic, pun-tacular counterpart. Variety reports that Charlize Theron's production company, Denver and Delilah Films, has picked up the rights to Christopher Buckley's Florence of Arabia, which she will produce and star in.
The Variety description makes it sound all sorts of serious -- a State Dept. worker (Theron) fights for women's rights in a Middle Eastern country after her friend marries a prince and gets beheaded. While that sounds a little Mighty Heart-ish, the book is actually a satire more reminiscent of War Inc. The country in question is the fictional Wasabia, and Florence's mission for women's rights -- creating a women's television network, a move that has surprising results. Like, perchance, a riot of Arab Valerie Bertinelli impersonators sick of sappy made-for-tv movies?...
The Variety description makes it sound all sorts of serious -- a State Dept. worker (Theron) fights for women's rights in a Middle Eastern country after her friend marries a prince and gets beheaded. While that sounds a little Mighty Heart-ish, the book is actually a satire more reminiscent of War Inc. The country in question is the fictional Wasabia, and Florence's mission for women's rights -- creating a women's television network, a move that has surprising results. Like, perchance, a riot of Arab Valerie Bertinelli impersonators sick of sappy made-for-tv movies?...
- 7/30/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Charlize Theron's Denver and Delilah Films has acquired screen rights to Christopher Buckley's satirical novel "Florence of Arabia." Theron will produce and develop the film as a star vehicle.According to Variety, the film will be written by Dean Craig."Florence of Arabia" is about a State Dept. employee (to be played by Theron) who, after watching her friend marry the prince of a Middle East country and subsequently get executed, fights for equal rights for the women of that country.Theron will produce through Denver and Delilah. The Johnson-Roessler Co. will be executive producing.
- 7/29/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
The production company of actress Charlize Theron has bought the film rights to Florence of Arabia, a novel by Christopher Buckley. Theron will produce the movie through her Denver and Delilah Films company and might also headline the movie too.
Buckley's satirical book was first published in 2004 and is about Florence Farfaletti, a Foreign Service worker living in the fictional Middle Eastern Royal Kingdom of Wasabia. The country is a darling of the western world due to its oil production but if you're a woman living there, forget about having the same rights as a man. When Florence witnesses another example of the brutal repression of women's rights in Wasabia she decides to make it her mission to cultivate a non-violent resistance movement to lift up women and give them the same rights as men enjoy. Of course Florence's crusade attracts the condemnation of Wasabia's rulers as well as the...
Buckley's satirical book was first published in 2004 and is about Florence Farfaletti, a Foreign Service worker living in the fictional Middle Eastern Royal Kingdom of Wasabia. The country is a darling of the western world due to its oil production but if you're a woman living there, forget about having the same rights as a man. When Florence witnesses another example of the brutal repression of women's rights in Wasabia she decides to make it her mission to cultivate a non-violent resistance movement to lift up women and give them the same rights as men enjoy. Of course Florence's crusade attracts the condemnation of Wasabia's rulers as well as the...
- 7/29/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
South African princess Charlize Theron looks to have found yet another project to add to her increasingly busy schedule. She's recently acquired the screen rights to Christopher Buckley's novel "Florence of Arabia" about a woman who's best friend marries an Middle Eastern prince and ends up being executed for renting Not Without My Daughter. Theron will play a State Dept. employee who feels the punishment exceeded the crime and goes on to fight for women's rights in the male-dominated society. It's a satire. I like Theron quite a bit. Her talented and naked presence in Reindeer Games and Two Days In The Valley helps make both films highly rewatchable. And in addition to this new project she currently has eight other future titles listed on IMDb. My wish though is that she'd focus on one single project... her remake of Chan-wook Park's Sympathy For Lady Vengeance. Park himself says Theron "gets" the character and I...
- 7/29/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Charlize Theron's Denver and Delilah Films has acquired screen rights to Christopher Buckley's satirical novel "Florence of Arabia." Theron will produce and develop the film as a star vehicle, reports Variety . "Florence of Arabia" is about a State Dept. employee (to be played by Theron) who, after watching her friend marry the prince of a Middle East country and subsequently get executed, fights for equal rights for the women of that country. The film will be written by Dean Craig.
- 7/29/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Charlize Theron is starring in a film based on Christopher Buckley's satirical novel "Florence of Arabia" after her Denver and Delilah Films shingle acquired its screen rights.
Scripted by Dean Craig, the film will tell the story of a fictional State Department employee who attempts to bring equal rights to a fictional Middle Eastern nation of Matar after watching her friend beheaded following her marriage to the country's prince.
Theron is also producing through Denver and Delilah, as per Variety. No production date has been given.
Before that, she will be seen next in "The Road," a post-apocalyptic movie based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. "The Road" is scheduled for release on October 16.
Scripted by Dean Craig, the film will tell the story of a fictional State Department employee who attempts to bring equal rights to a fictional Middle Eastern nation of Matar after watching her friend beheaded following her marriage to the country's prince.
Theron is also producing through Denver and Delilah, as per Variety. No production date has been given.
Before that, she will be seen next in "The Road," a post-apocalyptic movie based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. "The Road" is scheduled for release on October 16.
- 7/29/2009
- icelebz.com
Charlize Theron has purchased the movie rights to Christopher Buckley's novel Florence Of Arabia, says Variety. The satirical film will see the Oscar-winning actress star as a State Department worker who fights for women's rights in the Middle East after seeing her friend marry a prince and get executed. The title is a play on Lawrence Of Arabia, David (more)...
- 7/29/2009
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Charlize Theron is developing a film version of Christopher Buckley's Florence of Arabia, a comic satire about the Middle East. That may sound like a contradiction in terms, and certainly we suspect that this one could be controversial, but it does have potential.The story concerns Florence Farfaletti, Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs in the Us State Department. A friend of hers who is married to an Arabian prince (of the fiction state of Wasabia) is executed on flimsy, sexist charges, and Florence conceives a plan to tackle women's rights in the Middle East - or at least the fictional Wasabia.Based in the neighbouring, and more liberal, state of Matar, she and a crack team that includes a hit man, a PR guy and a gay Foreign Service officer try to shake things up via the medium of television.Theron is developing the...
- 7/29/2009
- EmpireOnline
Charlize Theron is set to become Florence of Arabia. Aside from being positioned similarly on Google Maps, it bears absolutely no resemblance to Lawrence of Arabia. They really should ditch the title. Variety says the movie is based on a satirical novel by Christopher Buckley. The film casts Theron as a State Department employee who watches her friend marry and then be executed by the prince of a Middle Eastern nation. She then goes on to fight for women's rights in the country, which has yet to be named. If they.re smart, they.ll invent something fictional, as a way to minimize the inevitable death threats. Let me be the first to say this: it.s about time. The treatment of women in Muslim dominated Middle-Eastern countries is continually glossed over in our desperation to fill gas tanks with cheap liquid gold. Someone ought to say something about it...
- 7/29/2009
- cinemablend.com
Here are some cool film news you really shouldn't miss on this July 29, 2009:
• Sheldon Turner is set to write the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game "inFAMOUS" for Sony Pictures. The game follows Cole MacGrath, who discovers he's got electricity-derived super powers after an explosion rips through Empire City. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Oscar winner Charlize Theron is set to develop and maybe star in the big-screen adaptation of Christopher Buckley's novel "Florence of Arabia." Dean Craig is writing the script, about a State Department employee who fights for equal rights for women in a Middle Eastern country. (Variety)
• Robert Schwentke, whose credits include "Flightplan" and "Time Traveler's Wife," is in talks to direct Summit's thriller "Red." The film follows a retired black-ops CIA agent whose peaceful life takes a turn when an assassin shows up at his door to kill him. Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman star.
• Sheldon Turner is set to write the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game "inFAMOUS" for Sony Pictures. The game follows Cole MacGrath, who discovers he's got electricity-derived super powers after an explosion rips through Empire City. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Oscar winner Charlize Theron is set to develop and maybe star in the big-screen adaptation of Christopher Buckley's novel "Florence of Arabia." Dean Craig is writing the script, about a State Department employee who fights for equal rights for women in a Middle Eastern country. (Variety)
• Robert Schwentke, whose credits include "Flightplan" and "Time Traveler's Wife," is in talks to direct Summit's thriller "Red." The film follows a retired black-ops CIA agent whose peaceful life takes a turn when an assassin shows up at his door to kill him. Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman star.
- 7/29/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Charlize Theron has acquired the screen rights to Christopher Buckley's satirical novel Florence of Arabia through her banner Denver and Delilah Films. Not only will she produce, but she also plans on developing the film as a starring vehicle.
Charlize Theron for Florence of Arabia
With a script by Dean Craig, Florence of Arabia is about a State Dept. employee (to be played by Theron) who, after watching her friend marry the prince of a Middle East country and subsequently get executed, fights for equal rights for the women of that country.
Charlize Theron for Florence of Arabia
With a script by Dean Craig, Florence of Arabia is about a State Dept. employee (to be played by Theron) who, after watching her friend marry the prince of a Middle East country and subsequently get executed, fights for equal rights for the women of that country.
- 7/29/2009
- www.canmag.com
Like so many before her and much more to follow, blonde beauty Charlize Theron is taking care of her own career, having just acquired the satirical novel Florence Of Arabia through her Denver & Delilah shindig for her own starring purposes. The 2004 book by Christopher Buckley has the heroine attempting to bring equal rights in the fictional Middle Eastern country of "Matar", where her friend was executed by an aristocratic husband. Insert the words "Bait" and...
- 7/29/2009
- by Tony Lang
- JoBlo.com
In the trembling aftermath of the Specter defection, Nate Silver (whom I met last week at a swinging loft party on the Lower East Side that was enlivened at one point by an interpretive free-form dance solo) asks: f you're a Democrat, would you really want Arlen Specter to be anything other than a soulless, unprincipled hack? Hell, no. Or to put it another way, Hell, no! For a man of his years, Specter's political pliancy would make him the marvel of any Ineygar yoga class, his joints so lubricated with oily calculation that he can take as many positions as there are positions to take, then add in an extra one to express his eccentricity. Every institution needs its unprincipled hacks to prevent a crippling arthritis of integrity that leads to stasis and false pride. For example, let's say a magazine needs an extended caption on a young stunner...
- 4/29/2009
- Vanity Fair
He once said he'd never turn his childhood into a memoir, but Christopher Buckley changed his mind. The son of conservative leader William F. Buckley and socialite Patricia Buckley told W magazine of his upcoming book, "Remembering Mum and Pup" -- "This is not Daddy Dearest or 'Mommie Dearest,' this is a love story . . . It just happens to be . . . a complex one." Buckley said of his parents, who died within a year of each other after...
- 4/9/2009
- NYPost.com
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